I recently developed an interest in dating again after being celibate for about six years. Hmm, that's probably not my best selling point. Ah well. I don't expect much, which is pretty good, because I don't get much, either.

I'm a gamer with good taste in beer (imported!), politics (liberal!), and friends (few but good!), but lack in strange areas... like my apartment has no art on the walls, which I'm told is weird. I don't have a car, for a lot of reasons, economic, personal, and environmental. I've never done things the normal way (whatever the "normal way" really is), but I get by as best I can. Nice to meet you.

I'm working in Facilities Management for a large financial institution. It's not really what I want to do with my life, but A) the economy sucks and I'll take a decent-paying job where I can get it, and B) jobs in writing are few and far between.

I'm writing a novel, but it's slow, difficult work.

I am a gamer, I play Call of Cthulhu. I have also participated in LARP in the last year. Video games, too: the Persona and Fallout series recently, but RPGs in general as well. I play board games with friends at least once a month.

Writing, role playing, and, well, doing the right thing by people. I'm probably too good for my own good at being good. I am getting to be a pretty decent cyclist, riding my bike to and from work every day (that's Uptown to downtown Minneapolis, and further when necessary on weekends.

My long brown hair and uncanny resemblence to the Buddy Christ from Dogma. I'm a big guy, but not unhealthy or unathletic.

Movies: District 9, Lord of the Rings, Mulholland Drive, Brotherhood of the Wolf, Descent, Dog Soldiers, Heavenly Creatures, Dawn of the Dead, Pitch Black, Battle Royale, Wild Things, Dogma, Clerks, Chasing Amy, The Thirteenth Warrior, Angel Heart, The Prophesy, In the Mouth of Madness, Blade II, Idiocracy, Inglourious Basterds

TV: Dexter, United States of Tara, True Blood, Babylon 5, Dollhouse, Battlestar Galactica, Rome, Masters of Horror, Supernatural, Angel, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, The Rachel Maddow Show.

Books: World War Z, John Sandford mysteries, The Devil You Know and Vicious Circle by Mike Carey. I know where Neil Gaiman actually lives, and it's not what it says on the book flaps.

Anime: Gantz, Elfen Lied, Death Note, Ghost in the Shell,

Food: Steak, Pizza, Chipolte, and practically anything from The Caspian Bistro

Drink: Skim Milk, Strongbow, Blue Moon, Guiness, Live Wire Mountain Dew, Red Wine, Rockstar Punched, good old Water

Music: Signal & Report, Nine Inch Nails, Pearl Jam, Warren Zevon

1. My Trek bicycle. As mentioned above, I don't own a car.
2. My XBox360... it's my DVD player as well as my gaming system.
3. Scotland. No, I don't have it with me, but knowing Edinburgh is out there makes me happy.
4. My strategically placed Uptown apartment.
5. Skim Milk.
6. My gaming collection, which I have been collecting since age 8 or so.

Healthcare reform... the big money interests don't want anything to change, and will make whatever rumors, bargains, and lies they need to to ensure that they continue to collect obscene profits. Senator Baucus is clearly in the pocket of the insurance industry, and he isn't alone. The progressive Democrats need to start flexing their muscles and overrule their corporate bretheren.

Usually just going out to a movie with a friend or renting a flick to watch at home. I go out on Saturday more often.

Despite living in Minnesota for the last 15 years, I am a [Green Bay Packers] fan.

you're into geeky guys who will never lie to you. I expect the same honesty in return: Don't lie to me, even to spare my feelings. If you're not into me, just say so... stringing me along will hurt me more in the long run.

I guess I should put in a little about my preferences. While all kinds of women can be beautiful, I especially like pettite women who are geeks and/or intellectuals. I suppose the adjectives that describe my particular weaknesses with regard to women's appearences are: "willowy," "exotic," and "etherial."

If you message me in 133t-speak, don't expect a response. This isn't Twitter.

Dating-wise, I'm so rusty that I really should get a tetanus shot, but I'm trying: please don't be afraid to message, wink, or IM me... I'm completely non-judgemental and don't expect anything from you except to have an interesting conversation. More than that will come with time, if at all.

I will admit here that I do tend to become friends with women easily because I'm easy to talk to and generally agreeable. I used to lament this fact, but I'm pretty much over it now, and just enjoy making friends and being there for someone.

If it doesn't feel natural, I'm not sure I want to pursue it. Life is too short to be trying to make people feel a certain way about you if they aren't already inclined to do so.