Geo
My blogs
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| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | Retired Machinist with MFA in Creative Writing |
| Location | Vancouver, Washington, United States |
| Introduction | I was a troubled youth, an "angry young man" as they were called in those days, but people don't like angry old men so I stopped being one. Now, I'm only crotchety. I read science for the fun of it and enjoy hiking, walking, poetry, fiction, blogging, writing and conversation with intelligent beings. We recently moved close to Portland, Oregon. I'm a member of the Humanists there. I've lived a varied and active life so far, am reasonably healthy and have grown to be comfortable within my own skin. You can't ask much more than that of a life lived without deep malice within a gregarious species. |
| Interests | 125th Century Martian Bloggers, Federico Fellini, Ingmar Bergman, John Stienbeck, Shakespeare, John Donne, atheism, brights, consciousness, alcoholics anonymous, evolutionary psychology, humanism, cognitive science, progressive politics, parallel universes, reality, physics, Carl Sagan, evolution, Joseph Campbell, surrealism, Jack Kerouac, Henry Miller, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Steven Pinker. |
| Favorite movies | 8 1/2, Five Easy Pieces, Gattaca (This is what I call real science fiction.), Santa Sangre, Gummo, East of Eden, Rebel Without a Cause, Smiles of a Summer Night, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Songs From The Second Floor, Schindler's List, Safe, Far From Heaven, Happiness, La Dolce Vita, Sands of Iwo Jima, 2001 A Space Odyssey, Clockwork Orange, A Thousand Clowns, Long Days Journey Into Night, Night of the Iguana, The Master, The Black Swan |
| Favorite music | Anything that suits the mood of that very moment. |
| Favorite books | Bottoms Up: the autobiography of a nobody, Tender Is the Night, On The Road, Going Inside, Bad Trades, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, The Idiot, The Ancestor's Tale, Blank Slate, Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology, The Origin of Minds, The Idiot, Great Expectations, David Copperfield |
What did you dream when you ate a spider while sleeping?
I turned myself off once in a movie to see if I dreamed while the movie played. Nothing happened.