It's agreed; we all like coffee.

Just your basic simple complex guy. Fun, energetic and responsible, I've also have had to look at the dark side and make peace, hopefully while not taking myself too seriously. I do realize I am an earnest soul, but tend toward the silly early and often perhaps to compensate for my cynical bone. Athletic and a part-time nature boy, I respect all life forms though I will kill a rodent that crosses the border. Not an academic or intellectual but smart about some things and can contribute to a lot of conversations, even if it's just a one liner. And a good eater!

Like a lot of us, I've had a few lives and careers. Currently I have a gig in the hospitality biz with a fair amount of responsbility that pays the bills and allows me some space and time to pursue things that feed me. I write and play music and also have a background in the theater and sketch comedy/original musical comedy. Still do children's theater every summer. Have a lot of room for volunteering and service in my life. I am not defined by my job, but I have one.

As for dating...not in any hurry after all we've been through but feel open minded. Meeting for coffee after a bit of communication seems reasonable to me. And one thing I have learned here -- we're not all for each other! But I've met some great folks and I bet they feel the same. A few of them anyway.

Trying to chuck the agenda and have smart feet.

Creativity in ideas and conversation (in the right company). World's best ear wiggler. Making some people laugh, particularly the little ones. Have become much better at listening! Damn good harmonica player. 4 out of 5 soups I make are excellent. Still a fair beast of burden.

He sure is polite.

Films: The Maltese Falcon, Local Hero, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Babe, Mr. Bean's Holiday, Underground, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Duck Soup, The Blues Brothers, Bullitt, Stuart Saves His Family, Spirited Away, Gran Torino -- many more! Love documentaries.

Music -- The Beach Boys, The Kinks, The Velvet Underground, old country blues and country, 60s/70s soul and R&B, chants, A Love Supreme, the Pastoral Symphony, Love's "Forever Changes."

On the turntable (figuratively) -- music from 1965/66. Paul Revere and the Raiders, the Knickerbockers, Outsiders, The Byrds, Gary Lewis and the Playboys, the Rascals, Motown.... For those of you who weren't around in those days, AM radio was a mesmerizing smorgasbord of revelation and excitement -- the Beach Boys followed James Brown, Frank Sinatra and the Rolling Stones came back to back, double sided hits by the Beatles coexisted with bizarre novelty tunes. Not the era of niche marketing and narrowcasting,

Books -- Huckleberry Finn, Moby Dick, Hemingway, Faulkner, Steinbeck. I used to read a lot of Bukowski, Kerouac, Hunter Thompson stuff but can't anymore. Virtually all of what I read now is nonfiction -- history, biographies, the arts -- I can't help it.

TV -- The BBC documentary World at War. The Muppet Show. The Unit. Pee Wee's Playhouse.

Food -- Mexican! And everything. Except liver. Anyone's liver.

I woke up this morning with no water in my apartment building and no warning. I don't need to over-explain the domino effect (starting with no coffee) but I *am* doing without about 6 things I do not wish to do without. It stinks!

If this sort of thing is really an improvement over the pre-arranged marriages of yore.

Wondering why it is dark out.

If you held a gun to my head I might join facebook, but you still couldn't make me watch a movie about it.

You're not as smart and important and fancy as you used to be. And you should be at least 10% enemy!

I appreciate women with a strong life force that I can stand toe to toe with. A tomboy that lives in Brooklyn and has done their homework and isn't seeking a mind reader would be a glib ideal, but far from a definitive statement. I've never been into one flavor of anything.

Lastly, if alcohol is really really important to you then we probably aren't a match, except maybe for some very short-term dating! And if your first concern is what I do for money and how much...well, good luck in your search. But you can still feel free to ask.