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Gender	Male
Occupation	Flake Tester
Location	Oregon, United States
Introduction	I try to be awake, and if I can manage that, to be reasonable. "With any other man I should have flown outright into a dreadful passion, scorned all further words, and thrust him ignominiously from my presence. But there was something about Bartleby that not only strangely disarmed me, but in a wonderful manner touched and disconcerted me. I began to reason with him." My e-mail is dances with anxiety [at] gmail dot com.
Interests	running, poetry, drumming, writing, reading, fitness, free will, determinism, god's existence, god, philosophy, ethics, criticism, walking, empathy, whales, scorpions, cats, vegetarianism, prehistoric fauna, prehistoric humans, prehistory, voluntary simplicity, climate change, creativity, the chicken as a metaphor, finding something new under the sun, evolutionary psychology, grammar, math, chess, paradoxes, illusions, aporia, Ponca City, depression, dissent, dark beer, red wine, science, anti-intellectualism, reality and its adversaries, atheism, freethought, secularism, humanism, faith, ethics, authority, belief, rhetoric, persuasion, politics, judgment, etymology, eschatology, teleology, hermeneutics, epistemology, history, literature, evolution, skepticism, religion, reason, justice
Favorite Movies	The Bicycle Thief, King Kong vs. Godzilla, 8 1/2, The God Who Wasn't There, No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood, The Magdalene Sisters, Office Space, An Inconvenient Truth, The Road to Perdition, Inglourious Basterds, Bowling for Columbine, The Planet of the Apes, Braveheart, Borat, Election, Pulp Fiction, Little Children, The Passenger, The Corporation, American Beauty, Reservoir Dogs, Citizen Kane, 127 Hours, Enter the Void, Fargo, The Virgin Spring, La Dolce Vita, Caddyshack, The Proposition, The Seventh Seal, The Lord of the Rings, The Godfather, Jarhead, Blow Up, L'Avventura, Funny Games, Wild Strawberries, Goodfellas, Howl, Groundhog Day, Roger & Me, The Autumn Sonata, Man Bites Dog, Five Easy Pieces, A Clockwork Orange, The Simpsons Movie, The Woodsman, Saving Private Ryan, Rob Roy, Kentucky Fried Movie, Winter Light, The Yes Men, Monty Python's Life of Bryan, Magnolia, Rushmore, The Barbarian Invasions, Il Grido, My Left Foot, Sophie's Choice, Through A Glass Darkly, The Grapes of Wrath, Stripes, Good Will Hunting, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Better Off Dead, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, South Park: Bigger Longer Uncut, The Silence, This Is Spinal Tap, 13 Tzameti, Persona, Hamlet (Branagh, Olivier), Macbeth (Finch, Welles), Richard III (McKellen, Olivier), Othello (Fishburne), Religulous, Stepbrothers, The Jerk, Watchmen, The Dark Knight, The Hangover, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Favorite Music	Bob Dylan, Neko Case, The Bird and the Bee, Yo La Tengo, The Dodos, Primus, Radiohead, Picastro, The National, Pink Floyd, Gorillaz, Lucinda Williams, The Shins, The Beatles, Sonic Youth, U2, Bach, Laura Cantrell, Mozart, Miles Davis, Uncle Tupelo, Interpol, Grizzly Bear, Stravinsky, Death Cab for Cutie, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Wilco, Jenny Lewis & Watson Twins, R.E.M., Franz Ferdinand, The Pogues, Vladimir Horowitz, Schubert, Public Enemy, Stephen Malkmus, DeVotchka, The Spinanes, The Waterboys, The Beatles, Rachmaninoff, Silver Jews, Johnny Cash, Pavement, Stereolab, Joanna Newsom, Liszt, Monade, Portishead, Chopin, D. Scarlatti, Camper Van Beethoven, Junior Brown, Massive Attack, Luna, The Eagles, Nirvana, Brahms, Beethoven, PJ Harvey, Broadcast, The New Pornographers, frente!, The Sundays, The Arcade Fire, Blonde Redhead, The Mountain Goats, Beck
Favorite Books	The Aeneid, Against Love: A Polemic, Ecclesiastes, Why I Am Not a Christian, The Road, A Confederacy of Dunces, Language Truth & Logic, The Age of Reason, The Devil's Dictionary, Paradise Lost, The God Delusion, Confessions (Augustine, Rousseau), Darwin's Dangerous Idea, The Book of Job, No Country for Old Men, The Iliad, The Blind Watchmaker, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, The Jungle, The Secular Conscience, How The Mind Works, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Walden, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Truth and Method, Frankenstein, The Oresteia, Lolita, The End of Faith, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, The Odyssey, Civilization and Its Discontents, Montaigne, John Irving, David Sedaris, Christopher Hitchens, Steven Pinker, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Jennifer Michael Hecht, Voltaire, Plato, Kafka, Twain, William Gay, Vonnegut, Stephen Jay Gould, Shakespeare, Chaucer, Cioran, Stanley Fish, Lucretius, Peter Medawar, Richard Rorty, Flannery O'Connor, Milan Kundera, Lewis Lapham, Melville, Sophocles, Euripides, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Thomas Frank, Marx/Engels, Camus, Peter Singer, Wallace Stevens, W.H. Auden