I guess I just think these profile things only kinda-sorta convey what people are like in "real life." So I'm a fan of just meeting, sooner rather than later, for a drink and a chat--in the first place I think it's important to find out what people look like in 3-D. I like to think I have a sense of humor and am easy enough to talk to and, uhh, how hard is it to drink a beer with someone?

I've been in Philly for almost two years but was back and forth from NYC last year (and still am, to see friends, family, etc.) I moved here after grad school in NYC to start a gig as a real live professor. I'm a cultural anthropologist interested in media and Europe and environmental stuff. I'm doing some research in Morocco this summer. It will be hot there.

laughing, discussing, reading, going to movies, talking about movies, talking about people who talk about movies, being outside, running, skiing, hiking, working out, cooking, eating good food, drinking, nostalgia, deadpan, design, dark chocolate

Sometimes people tell me my teeth are very white. (It's my secret teeth-bleaching mouth wash, which may also be gradually dissolving away my gums.)

Ian McEwan, Dave Eggers, Jonathan Franzen, E.M. Forster, David Sedaris, Louise Erdrich, Jonathan Lethem, Billy Shakespeare, Freedom, On Chesil Beach, Crime and Punishment, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Ender's Game, The Round House, A Hologram for the King, Distinction, Harry Potter, Random Family, The Great Gatsby.... Almodóvar, Ingmar Bergman, Kubrick, Kar-Wai, Al Hitchcock, Frank Truffaut, Let the Right One In, Clue, Cry Woman, To Live, House of Yes, Ikiru, Through a Glass Darkly, We Need to Talk about Kevin, Bombay, Cinema Paradiso, The 400 Blows, Scream, All About Eve, The Lives of Others, Breakfast Club... classical (Beethoven's 7th, Dvorak, Mozart's Requiem, Philip Glass, The Magic Flute, also: ballet) but also jazz, Rihanna, Dixie Chicks, The National, Magnetic Zeros, Radiohead, Beirut, Robyn, Tegan and Sarah, The XX, Sharon Jones.... pastas and desserts of any shape, size, and ethnicity/gender/race.

Scrabble (on my iphone), web videos of people falling down, my passport, extremely comfortable bed/pillows, northern New Mexico, decent coffee

whatever book I'm reading, if changing media are "changing us," whether or not the earth is dying/can support us, grant writing, where to travel, how to make my house cozy, why so many people on this website consider themselves "foodies," if the EU is going to disappear

eating then drinking, or eating then watching a movie, or eating then watching a movie then drinking, etc.

I am sometimes materialistic, despite what I like to think are my anti-materialistic values.

you want to get a beer sometime.