51, healthy and hale (mostly), employed in marketing. I'm also a luthier who specializes in the manufacture of historical instruments and publishes books about the same. I also write a column for an e-zine on the science associated with the paranormal.

Otherwise, I'm an ex-smoker. No kids or plans for any (but I do like other people's kids). I'm religious in a personal and spiritual sense, even tho' not a member of a popular faith. Live and let live is my motto, and my politics lean to the left, even if I've become somewhat more conservative as I've grown older. I clean the bathroom, wash dishes, sweep floors, maintain and repair vehicles and am quite handy. I'd rather go to the beach than a Hollywood craptacular and I'd sooner go to a symphony than any sort of sporting event. I spend some of my summer weekends merchandising at festivals, conventions, SCA events and RennFaires, encouraging people to be musical.

I write and Facebook as Frater Auxilior Arti.

I am an initiate of the Ordo Astrum Sophia and a founding member of the Companions of the Glyph.

I'm 4:20-friendly but am way too busy to be chronic about it. I enjoy a few glasses of wine every day but avoid excess.

Now that I have relocated my Lutherie shop in an honest-to-goodness building (with security, plumbing and everything!) I will get back to filling orders in the US and Europe shortly. My apprenticeship program has restarted and and it's full speed ahead for the publishing venture. . . . This hobby/business of mine is called orphicairs.com if you're curious about what a luthier does.This website is due to be updated promptly. The next direction my business is headed in involves building a shop in a 28' truck and offering it for sale at the next GAL convention.

It's my longer-range plan to reinvest in real estate and flip a few houses. Living here 25 years and working in the construction trades has left me with some excellent skills and contacts in real estate.

Fixing mechanical things that go ka-blooie in the night.
Teaching, training, communicating, writing, intellectual discussions, unscrewing the inscrutable and effing the ineffable.

is that I look a bit like Richard Brautigan--for what it's worth.

It's tough to narrow that down . . . I own a large library and it is filled with books that have changed my outlook on everything in most every direction. I maintain a library of several 1000 titles, mostly centered on Science, the paranormal, history and the occult.

Brautigan makes the list . . . he's been an influence of mine. When I was a younger teen, I read a lot of sci-fi from the greats, as well as the emerging greats of the 70's I attended a worldcon, met Silverberg, 4SJ, Heinlein (who signed my copy of SIASL), Bob Tucker, Geo Lucas (I'm a LOT more THRILLED that I shook the hand of a man who shook Joseph Campbell's) and many others. I'm a PKD fan, too--read just about everything of his and about him. In my 20's I started reading more non-fiction and that's pretty much where I'm at today.

I know it's dated horribly, but my favorite movie is probably Wizards, if for no other reason that it's the only movie I've ever seen where the audience stood up and cheered at the climax of the film. I've seen some powerful and stunning dramas like Angels in America, The Maxx, The Matrix, Dark City and others but I hate having to wade through the veritable tides of dreck to get there. I usually only watch public TV but also stay on top of British comedies, paranormal shows on SYFY, a few radio shows . . . Right now I can't get a signal so it's pretty much all about Netflix--but that's about to change. I like David Lynch but can't stand Eraserhead, nor can I see what anyone sees in it. I've probably seen every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, mostly because my ex-wife was interested in it. I came away from that seriously impressed by Joss Whedon's writing talent--he has personally added more realistic, strong female characters to TV than any other 10 writers combined. I got into Fringe, True Blood and Torchwood, too. I usually let others hook me into what interests them because otherwise I'd probably get too canalized, set in my ways.

I'm all over the map musically. Not many people have broader taste, I've found, and as I get older, my interests get wider. I guess it's easier to narrow down what I don't like: most things pop and commercial, C&W (except the really old stuff and Dave and Tracy), thrash, grocery store music, rap, hip-hop and other stuff not aimed at my age group. I was pretty hard into progressive rock when everyone else was listening to disco.

I was once a musician (and still hack away at it, upon request), wrote about 4 albums of material and recorded it with members of various Jazz and rock bands on the scene in Oregon 15 years ago. I really enjoy the grateful Dead and most psychedelic music.

Food . . hmmm . . . some people live to eat and some eat to live and I'd rank myself with the latter. Even so, I love to cook and have done so in gourmet restaurants and country clubs, but what a way to make a living! I'm mostly vegetarian but eat a bit of fish and fowl. I respect vegetarianism, won't likely come into conflict with it and was once total veg myself and may be again.

I know how to kill and prepare a chicken, raise ducks (just for eggs), can/preserve just about anything, bake bread and hold many family recipes from generations back . . . from pickles to sweet Swedish rye bread. I used to brew beer (but gave up beer) and cider and wouldn't mind learning how to make blackberry wine from scratch (Oooh--that was a bad pun, and completely unintentional).

Air, food, water, length, width and breadth. And yet some day I will do without them all, so what does this question really reveal?

The nature of reality and our relationship to it. So, physics . . but in the subjective sense. I am at home in deep waters, without doubt. I have been exploring the relationship between electromagnetism and the paranormal since the mid-90's as well, pretty much the subject of the column I write for Theparanomalist.com.

I think about how the dreams we dream when we are "asleep" are the dreams within the dream we have wherein we believe we are "awake".

Too, they say that guys think about sex every 3 seconds, but that's not at all true. It's more like every 2 seconds. So . . . I think about that special person I want to meet . . and think about her every 2 seconds or so . . .

Maybe what I don't spend time thinking about is the more telling. I don't spend any time looking for something that I've already found. I'm not a searcher--I've found my path and I expect to spend the rest of my life walking it. I know who I am and I know what I do, and I know this at levels of my being that others don't even believe exist. I don't worry about what others think of me.

At home, playing music with friends, else out on a date listening to friends playing music.

Here? Nothing. Elsewhere, anything. I'm very easy to talk with.

You're independent, funny, intelligent, sensibly material and not an angry or weepy drunkard or a smoker. Looks are not too important to me, aside from obesity issues--sorry, fat women turn me right off. I don't limit myself to Playboy bunny types either--skinny, average, HWP, athletic, etc. is just fine by me. I tend to be attracted to women who are confident with their appearance and don't spend too much time sculpting themselves into someone they are not. Sexual adventurousness, open-mindedness and a sense of wonder are all pluses. An interest in magick is even better . . .

The top 10 turn-offs, in no particular order (I mean I hit the EJECT button the second I see these words) are:

Rodeo
"Country Girl"
Football
TRUCKS!
Lovin' the Lord
Republican
consistent misspelling
"looking for a simple guy"
motorcycles/quads
"Sugar Daddy"