Profile:

• Layer in the Onion:
  • Nomad/Novitiate (here since October 2006)
• Schoolin':
  • Studied video and dabbled in the other fine arts at the University of Pennsylvania, graduated 2006
• Work/Vocation:
  • Work: Teaching art to 5th and 6th graders in an after school program
  • Vocation: Someday I'll know
• CD most likely playing right now:
  • Perhaps something from Warp Records or Kranky
• Recent book favorite:
  • "The Omnivore’s Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
• Influential book from the past:
  • "The Great Divorce" by C.S. Lewis
• Pet peeves:
  • Online social networking
  • Becoming suddenly ensnared in a bout of mimetic rivalry
  • Insiders who are all about co-opting outsider status
• Special gift or secret talent:
  • Talking out loud to myself
• Fond childhood memory:
  • Staving off my hunger with a quarter-cup ration of frozen peas while watching Mr. Rogers on weekday evenings as my mother prepared dinner.
• USAntihero friend:
  • The Pogo Avenger
• Something that keeps me awake at night (besides thumping street music):
  • Uncomfortable body positions and/or one of my arms going to sleep when I lay on top of it.
• Deep thought or good quote to ponder:
  • "Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye."
  • Deep Thought © to ponder: "Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them, and you have their shoes." --Jack Handy
• Favorite place(s) I’ve been…:
  • The Olympic Peninsula, The Oregon coast, northern Idaho, Vancouver, Clark Park, anywhere in Philadelphia during the evening of one of those hot summer days
• Internet links:
  • The daily nice
  • Mik e Jeffries, a profile
  • Photos that I took
  • I've never made this, but it sure looks tasty
  • TED talks
  • Send a note to your future self
  • Yeah, I've got a blog
  • Brought to you by capitalism...
• If I could spend a day with a dead person…:
  • I’d rather not, but I guess if push came to shove I would need to put him or her in the trunk of my car in a plastic bag to as to avoid the unpleasantries of rotting flesh. We could drive around together for a while like that. Of course, anyone who needs to dispose of a dead body is eventually faced with a difficult choice between the pragmatic solution and the grandiose one. Opting for the latter, at sunset (with the help of a few helping hands) the body would be placed on a combustible funeral pyre raft and set to drift in the ocean. When it had drifted far enough out, the raft would be lit on fire by a single flaming arrow shot from the shore. Then it would be time for us to stand there gazing out to sea and contemplating mortality until the last flame had died out and the cloud of ashes had come to rest on some generic patch of the ocean floor.