I'm in the public domain, so not every story about me is authorized by the author.

People put me in all sorts of genres, from literary fiction to romance to bible stories, but David Foster Wallace probably writes me best.

Reports of my demise may or may not have been greatly exaggerated.

I have a great track-record at corrupting people. Give me a try, and please, reciprocate.

That is not dead which can eternal lie, and in strange eons, even death may die.

If you actually want something... anything... I'm here to deliver. There are seven billion people in the world, and I can only care about so many of them, but if I do care about someone, it's freakin obvious, their life will be totally different as a result, and if they actually want something they will almost certainly get it.

I'm about 1/3 of the way through an series of basic research experiments into good and evil. Meanwhile, busy healing the sick and dying, summoning gods, fleeing from terrorists. You know, the usual.

Asking questions.
Staying hydrated.
Looking into pain.
Seeing reality without judgment.
Finding interesting people.
Living well cheaply.
Seeing opportunities.
Getting things done.
Saying Exactly the right thing... or Exactly the wrong thing

The Vibrams. My accent. Their confusion.

H2G2
MtA, 1st ed.
Good and Real
The Bible
The Illuminatus! Trilogy & Schrodinger's Cat
Baboon Metaphysics
The Origin of Species
Sex, Ecology, Spirituality
Expert Political Judgment
The Odyssey; also Ulysses
Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases
Causality by Judea Pearl
The End of Time by Julian Barbour
The Singularity Hypothesis
Anthropic Bias: Observer Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
The Tale of Genji
Snow Crash
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Philosophy in the Flesh
Plato's Republic
The Genealogy of Morals
The Wealth of Nations
The Divine Comedy
The Importance of Being Ernest
Outliers
The Checklist Manifest
Better Doctors, Better Patients, Better Decisions
I'm going to stick to 6 from now on

Atonement
Primer
The Truman Show
Run Lola Run
The Life Before Her Eyes
My Kid Could Paint That

Six Feet Under
Gossip Girl
The Simpsons
Firefly
Mad Men: Season 1
Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Wagner
Shostakovich
Beethoven
Pink Floyd, also regular Pink
Tori Amos
The Nixons

Potassium rich foods
Wild fish
Grass-fed meats
Fermented foods
Heirloom vegetables
Curries

Electrolytes, it's what plants crave!
Connectivity
Time
Yoga
Travel
Friends

What should life consist of.

How to actually change society, not how someone should do it, but how I should do it.

What keeps people from achieving their potential.

How does trust work among grown-ups.

What went so terribly wrong in the 20th century, e.g.
"Things fall apart
The circle cannot hold
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world
The best lack all conviction
and the worst are filled with passionate intensity"

Blowing someone's mind, or maybe the reverse, or maybe a body, whatever.

I'm pretty much an open book, freely sharing opinions that are flat-out scary to most people, though not insisting that they adopt them.

You can say 'Namaste' and MEAN IT.

If you can say "Satnam" and mean that... then we don't need to learn to love one-another, we already do.

You value intensity
You think this sounds fun http://www.criminalwisdom.com/hysterical-literature-the-orgasm-as-art/
You can imagine being wrong, even about the most basic things
You know what it is to try, or want to know
You have a persistent identity, rather than just reflecting those around you
You aren't afraid to speak your mind

Most of all, if you can tell me about someone who's not a blood relative and who's life is different thanks to you. If there's literally no-one who you have mattered to previously why would I be an exception?