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alfieprufrock

25 / M / straight / Single

Queens, New York

The Skinny

Last Online
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Ethnicity
Other
Height
5' 9" (1.75m).
Body Type
A little extra
Looking For
Long-term dating, Short-term dating, Activity partners
Smokes
No
Drinks
Sometimes
Drugs
Religion
Agnosticism and laughing about it
Sign
Scorpio and it’s fun to think about
Education
Graduated from masters program
Job
Artistic / Musical / Writer
Income
Rather not say
Kids
Pets
Likes dogs and Owns cats
Languages
English (Poorly)

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I am not, Batman, and I am Frank Gorshin!.

My Self-Summary

**New and improved profile**

I still love juice boxes.
I'd like backup dancers to follow me down the street. Or maybe a small old man with a violin.
I finally understand Eddie Izzard's joke about James Mason. That man can do anything.
I spent my whole childhood watching black and white movies. (Mad Men feels very natural for me, in some ways.) I would like to wear a fedora and trench coat like Humphrey Bogart, but still be able to play kickball, or ride an abandoned stroller downhill in the rain.

I have trouble reconciling the serious part of me with my whimsical, funny-face nature, and, hence, we have a profile named after a T. S. Eliot poem.

I want to have fun. Perhaps with you.

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What I’m doing with my life

Teaching college students how to write. (Impossible?)

I just finished an MFA degree in Creative Writing and I'm still thinking about ways to support my writing. Somehow I'm an Adjunct Professor, right now. Tomorrow I might be an cosmonaut.

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I’m really good at

Awkward hand gestures. (I learned this from a professor of mine during my undergrad degree and it's stayed with me ever since.) My students keep asking me if I play an instrument. I tell them I'm learning the air bagpipes.

The first things people usually notice about me

My Bob Dylan hair cut. Or the fact that I'm always smiling at you.

My favorite books, movies, music, and food

Books

Being one of those 'book-readers,' there's probably too many to list here. That being said, here's a short list of 300,000. T.S. Eliot's Selected Poems, Denis Johnson's Incognito Lounge, Mark Strand's Reason's For Moving, Dubliners by James Joyce, and any of the plays written by Neil Simon, Christopher Durang, and Tennessee Williams.

Movies

I'm a big fan of the 1940's to the end of the '70's, so let's say anything by Orson Wells, old-school film noir, and some fan-favorites like Dirty Harry.

And Airplane has been a tremendous influence on my life.

Music

I'm a humongous Bob Dylan fan. And I have a thing for Sam Cooke and other classic soul artists.

Food

Just about everything that is bad for you. Cheese fries. Sandwiches. Chinese food is the tops. I could eat it for the rest of my life and never tire of it.

The six things I could never do without

cockatoos.
cockatoos.
cockatoos.
Shavitz.
cockatoos.
cockatoos.

I spend a lot of time thinking about

Poetry and general poesy. Scenarios in which I refer to myself as Frank Gorshin.

On a typical Friday night I am

Performing an hour long version of "MacArthur Park".

Editors

The most private thing I’m willing to admit here

I make passes at girls who wear glasses. And read books.

You should message me if

You would like to go to all you can eat sushi with me.

You would like 'the dating,' or, at least, interesting conversation.

You have your thirty-two box tops and would like a free toaster.

You want to lure me into your basement with promises of candy.


You have The Hardy Boys Detective Handbook. (Please, please, please message me if you actually have that.)

Would you like a cookie?