the three cornerstones of a liberal education: Jeopardy!, the New York Times crossword puzzle, and the SAT.

Would that it were not so... but probably, these days, it's one or another symptom of my Parkinson's Disease, which I've had for 13 years now.

Authors: Jonathan Swift (Gulliver's Travels), Jane Austen (Emma), George Orwell (Homage to Catalonia), Anne Tyler (Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant), Michael Kinsley

Old movies: I am a big fan of Buster Keaton, Astaire & Rogers, David Lean, Alec Guinness, Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd, Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart, William Powell, Carole Lombard, Ernst Lubitsch, Billy Wilder, William Wyler -- and many others.

Music: Classical (Bach, Haydn, Beethoven and Dvorak); Jazz (Dave Brubeck, Clifford Brown, Sonny Rollins); Vocalists (Louis Jordan, Jo Stafford); Musicals (Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Steven Sondheim); Rock (The Beatles, David Bowie, Steely Dan, Talking Heads -- and, embarrassingly, practically nothing from the last 25 years!)

Food: Basically I'm an "eat to live" type. Which is not to say that I don't appreciate fine or exotic food -- I do -- but cuisine generally is not the stuff of my obsessions. I am happy eating Italian, Thai, or American, to name but a few. Call me easily satisfied.

* Amazon.com
* Wikipedia
* imDb
* NPR
* A microwave oven
* All my books, whether or not I'll ever read them again

politics and the Presidential election.

sitting hunched over my computer, typing slowly.

Well, this is pretty private, but also probably all-too-easy to guess. There are many reasons I wish I were in a steady romantic relationship: the caring, comfort, the conversation. But, not to overlook the obvious: I miss having sex!

I miss the deep (and the shallow) pleasures I used to get from it. Even more, I miss giving sexual pleasure -- which is, after all, much harder to simulate persuasively.

* I sound (at least moderately) interesting
* you are smart (a must), funny, and anywhere remotely near my age
* you can imagine yourself being attracted to a man with a disability. (It's OK if you find, in the event, you are simply not attracted to me -- plenty of women aren't. But I'd like to feel I have an honest shot.)
* even if you CAN'T imagine yourself being attracted to a man with a disability, or you're not sure. That doesn't make you a bad person -- I might have said the same thing myself. (Who knows? even now, I still might.) Just be honest and tell me up front -- we can still be friends, right? (In turn, I'll be upfront -- if I find you attractive, sometime around Friend-Date #4 I'm likely to make my move, such as it is, on you. Fair warning: It has been known to work!) In other words, I may surprise you.
* bonus points if you live close to me -- South Minneapolis. (I have given up driving, but I can get around OK by bus.)