Doug T

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About me

Gender Male
Industry Advertising
Occupation Copywriter
Location New York, New York, United States
Introduction "Maybe the paperboy was right...maybe I AM just a mean old man..."
Interests Music, opera, travel, discovering NY, running, cooking, tous les choses francaises, drinking pina coladas and getting caught in the rain
Favorite Movies Streetcar Named Desire, The Sixth Sense, Airplane, Philadelphia Story, Au Revoir les Enfants, Moonstruck, Brokeback Mountain, Cleopatra, (underrated!), Dances With Wolves, Cinema Paradiso, Troy, (to the extent that it's basically gay porn), The Sound of Music, (gay gay gay), anything by Mel Brooks, (Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, High Anxiety), A Christmas Carol, (Alisdair Sim or Mr Magoo), Titanic, (just the sinking), Schindler's List, Gone With the Wind, LifeTime screaming-woman/I-gotta-get-my-kid-back! movies-of-the-week, Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte, The Golden Girls (if TV is allowed)
Favorite Music Opera, (pretty much everything), classical, (again pretty much everything), popular (Everclear, Green Day, blink-182, Benjamin Biolay, Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Madonna, [yeah I'm gay], Third Eye Blind, Dido, All American Rejects, Coldplay, John Mayer, Rufus Wainwright, Indigo Girls, Jimmy Eat World, Fountains of Wayne, ...), some American Standards, (Ella Fitgerald, Dean Martin, Nina Simone, Frank Sinatra), some soundtracks and showtunes, (Evita, Fantasticks), the Jerky Boys, (if they're allowed here)
Favorite Books Lots of English, (Byron, Shakespeare, Poe), and French, (Baudelaire, Verlaine, Hugo), poetry, Classics, (Sophocles, Euripides, Homer), Ibsen, Le Petit Prince, Sister Carrie, McTeague, and anything by the late Nipsy Russell.

Do you believe that forks are evolved from spoons?

Yes. And that is why the spork remains too advanced for most people.