Richard Carrier

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About me

Gender Male
Industry Education
Occupation Author
Location California, United States
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Introduction Writer of books & articles. Internet Infidel. Natural philosopher. Ph.D. in Greco-Roman intellectual history. Married. Coast Guard veteran. Graduate of Berkeley & Columbia. Not a frog.
Interests Spending Time with my Wife Laughing and Making Fun of Film and Television, Reading, Writing, Taking Short Walks Among the Green Trees and Wild Flowers, Practicing My Skills as a Marksman (yes that means guns)
Favorite Movies Fearless, Charade, A&E's Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion, French Kiss, Shawshank Redemption, Chocolat, Big Trouble In Little China, Warlock, Spirited Away, Sorcerer, The Hunt for Red October, Bladerunner, 12 Monkeys, Snatch, Constantine, Life of Brian, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Blast from the Past, Down Periscope, Fargo, Ten Things I Hate about You
Favorite Music Goldfrapp, The Creatures, INXS, Duran Duran, The Human League, Dead Can Dance, Moby, Lily Allen, Simple Minds, U2, Zachary J. Mechlem, Neko Case, Greg Edmonson's Firefly, Joseph LoDuca's Brotherhood of the Wolf, Bear McCreary's Battlestar Galactica, Basil Poledouris' Cherry 2000, Tangerine Dream, Delerium, Schiller, Solar Fields, Vangelis, Nouvelle Vague
Favorite Books Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Catapult: A History, Pagans and Christians, The Forgotten Revolution, Vision Science: Photons to Phenomenology, The Truth (with Jokes), Ken's Guide to the Bible, The Belgariad, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell

The squish of mud between your toes; how would you live your life as a frog?

Invent an amphibious environment suit, raise an army of disgruntled frogs, conquer the world, free all humans, and colonize Saturn.