I climb trees, periodically enter the ocean, love my supermutt pup, and fear death and the whole bit on how humanity is a sliver of moonlight in the 24-hour day. I've been from Chicago to Connecticut to Brooklyn to DC to the East Bay. I'm a pretty straightforward, honest, easygoing person. Frosty brew. Chicago Bears and Bulls. A long run, a tennis match, a climb up the mountain, a novel or short story in my fat auburn chair, skiing.

I put words on the pages of a glossy magazine.

Saying what I think, communing with strangers, balancing sarcasm and sincerity, figuring out what animal you look like, dry humor.

Sense of humor, curiosity, monotone voice

Everything's always changing. Here's what I've recently read, watched, or listened to, and enjoyed:

Music - Pavement, The National, Red House Painters, John Fahey, Modest Mouse, The Band, Fennesz, "Einstein On the Beach" (not the Counting Crows song), Springsteen, Mogwai, Scott Walker

Books - The Forever War, John Jeremiah Sullivan, Raymond Carver, Denis Johnson, David Foster Wallace, Philip Roth, Don DeLillo, Annie Dillard, Anthony Lane, John Le Carre.

Shows - Louie, Peep Show, Game of Thrones, Deadwood, Friday Night Lights, Fresh Air

Movies - Into the Abyss, The Master, Tree of Life, What Women Want, Hoop Dreams, Chinatown, Minority Report, Jason Bourne, The Wedding Singer, The Cable Guy

Something to write with, open space, exercise of some kind, snow, nice cheese, mobility

How to articulate my vague sour feeling toward the whole tech/ startup thing
What nature's worth
How to write a sentence
What's funny
Death (sorry to be morbid)
Inconcieveable things like: the ocean, time, outer space, bad conversations
Prisons and the imprisoned

Beer bars, board games, camping, writing, going for a run at 1 AM

Scrabble makes my adrenaline surge. I dance like a tin man.

You will laugh at me
You want to split the bill
You have some energy
You get nervous and excited about being stuck at a table with a stranger
You don't project "mysteriousness" to cover for insecurities
You are a decent human