I'm pretty shy, but have an acerbic and blue sense of humor. It's gotten me into trouble recently, like the time I stole a baby Jesus figurine from a house party. I like wearing ties, but I do not wear them often enough. However, I do wear a fedora.

I recently graduated with a B.A. in Religious Studies from a liberal arts university. The only job I could find was minimum wage retail work, and I am barely qualified for that.

I sometimes go to the Inferno night club with my friends. While they are dancing, I pretend I am an anthropologist and people watch, trying to figure out why they are wearing this-or-that, and why they are acting in such-and-such way. I sometimes go to bars and read while drinking scotch or bourbon. I love learning about religion, but I do not tend to talk about it much, because people usually ask me what I think is "the right religion" and I tell them I have no clue.

My current plan is to work in Madison until next fall to gain Wisconsin residency, and then attend the Southeast Asian Studies program at UW, specializing in Theravada Buddhist studies. Currently, I work as a delivery driver for a Japanese Restaurant. It's a glamorous life.

I've also started writing again after a four year hiatus. I am not trying to write to become the next William Faulkner, but if I was able to publish a small chapbook that 10 people buy, I would be happy.

Being extremely quiet and then interjecting with an joke.

I'd guess either the hat or the beard.

Books: The Sound and The Fury, The Great Gatsby, The Asian Journals of Thomas Merton, Seven Story Mountain (also by Thomas Merton), The Gods Drink Whiskey, most books about religion, Wonder Boys, books on Asian history or culture, etc.

Movies: Lost in Translation, La Strada, Annie Hall (most things by Woody Allen from 1973 to the early 90's), Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, No Country for Old Men, a lot of others...

Music: My musical tastes varies from month to month. I was on a long binge of hip hop, focusing on such artists as GZA/Genius, Company Flow, Cannibal Ox, illogic, and Missy Elliot. Right now, I am in a mix of protopunk (The Sonics and The Stooges) and Tom Waits. My favorite songs are as follows: The Big Ship by Brian Eno, Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen) by Tom Waits, So Long Marianne by Leonard Cohen, and 4th Chamber by GZA.

Television: The Venture Bros., Futuramma, The Wire, Californication, The West Wing, Rome, and House.

I have a deficient sense of smell and taste, so as far as variety of food goes, I don't have much. The only meat I eat is poultry. I tend to like Asian food (mostly Indian, Thai, and Chinese).

A library, a notebook, a bottle of scotch or bourbon, a good friend who knows how to keep secrets, a music player, and at least one boxing glove. I don't like boxing, but if you have so little it's good to expand your horizons.

Future events involving calamity, if it is better to classify atheism/agnosticism as a religion or religious concept, if I was born 150 years ago, would I have been a priest/monk/rabbi/etc., why do I love popping bubble wrap so much?, should I take up whittling?, it seems like it would be a nice hobby, I wish I lived at some other time in history, but wait, I like soap and medicine, on and on and on.

My mind races three miles a minute.

Out and about with my friends. Sometimes at their place, sometimes at the Inferno.

From the ages of 3 to 13, I was obsessed with snakes, and have retained a ridiculous amount of random trivia about them. Also, I mumble to myself a lot. It's the internal monologue inside my head, but for some reason it sneaks out a bit. Finally, I never learned how to ride a bike. I am bike inept.

You are intelligent.

If you express fondness and intimacy through insults.

You think whiskey, cigars and dive bars sounds like a good time.