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My self-summary Propose an edit

Some people call me "difficult." I prefer "a challenge."

Really--I come off as sweet and charming, and really there's a lot of brilliance and pathos bubbling under the surface. Ignore that, though, and you'll find more of the sweet and charming stuff underneath, and maybe a layer of neurosis. I think that's as deep as I go.

I try to be brief in these things, but OK Cupid seems intent on forcing us to use as many words as possible in order to get "points," whatever they are. For some reason I think I want them. Go figure.

My current main ambition in life is to stop looking up celebrities I like on Wikipedia, because it always makes me sick to find out that they're actually hardcore Republicans.

What I'm doing with my life Propose an edit

I just nailed a big promotion--not the obligatory "you've lasted long enough that we'll drop 'assistant' from your title" dealie--at a company I love to pieces.

I have a phenomenal but exhausting social life, the kind wherein I'm sort of relieved when someone cancels plans on me and I get to take a nap/play a video game/eat a burger at the pub with a book in my hand.

I have a beautiful apartment in Hell's Kitchen which I never really bothered to decorate and which I rarely clean. My roommate and I discuss hiring a cleaning service about once a month, whenever the squalor really forces our hand.

I want to take more vacations now that I can (marginally) afford it.

I'm really good at Propose an edit

Writing. And vice.

I don't believe in false modesty, so I'll be the first to tell you that I'm really smart, more than slightly talented, and a good friend and partner to have. I also don't believe in braggadocio, so I'll also be the first to tell you that I'm lazy, undisciplined, self-indulgent, and sometimes maddening to be around. You tell me whether there's a net plus.

The first thing(s) people usually notice about me Propose an edit

I'm a huge asshole, I hate going out and having fun, I hate staying at home and cuddling with a DVD, I have a poor sense of humor, I have no good friends, and my family is not important to me.

No, none of those things are true (well, maybe the first, but I'll at least aggressively dispute it). I'm just curious as to why so many people think that it sets them apart to describe themselves as the bare minimum of a tolerable human being. "Wow, I wonder if he also bathes and changes his clothes daily! Sounds like a winner to me!"

My favorite books, movies, music, and food Propose an edit

(a) Not Since Carrie, The Season, Ethan Mordden's Broadway Musicals series, any books about bad movies and TV, The Bluebird Cafe, Foundation series, The First Wives Club, The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, The Good Soldier, Woe Is I, Words Fail Me, Schroedinger's Ball

(b) Pleasantville, A Letter to Three Wives, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, South Park: Bigger Longer Uncut, Wet Hot American Summer, All About Eve, Jason X, Down With Love, 8 Femmes

(c) Show tunes (mostly 60s and 70s shows, but a few classics, crazy flops, and new theatre music), vacuous pop crap I'm just barely old enough to remember

(d) Any Asian cuisine, Ethiopian, Indian, Italian, Mexican, American specialties (Philly cheesesteaks, New York pizza, Buffalo wings), crepes, good steaks, and pretty much anything that will fit in my mouth. And wine and beer, of course.

The six things I could never do without Propose an edit

iMac, MetroCard, TiVo, iPhone, Stella Artois, Amex. Fuck food, shelter and human kindness.

I spend a lot of time thinking about Propose an edit

Sex, politics, syndicated television, musicals, computing, beer, money, crime.

On a typical Friday night I am Propose an edit

Time was, you'd find me watching sci-fi TV with about half of my friends list--boy, time has really ravaged our little group. Drinking mass quantities. Sometimes going to a piano bar, albeit so late that I'm past the point of being able to comprehend human speech. If I'm very lucky, adding a notch to my bedpost sometime around dawn.

I kid, of course. I don't have a fourposter.

The most private thing I'm willing to admit here Propose an edit

I've been to paradise, but I've never been to me.

You should message me if Propose an edit

The spirit moves.

After so many years in New York, I seriously need to meet some new people--friends, "friends," aimless dates, guys with definite boyfriend potential, anybody. If you think you can hold my interest for whatever span of time you're looking for, please give it a shot.

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