I was born on a little planet named Krypton, you might have heard of it, but grew up in Nantucket. After an insignificant while ("youth") in Seattle, I've been back and forth between Chicago and the Bay Area for the last couple of years (snowbird lifestyle). update: I'm literally as in totes here now. Find me in the blue square.

Myers-Briggs type ain't nothing but a four-letter word.

Come, fill the cup, and in the fire of Spring
The Winter garment of repentance fling
The bird of time has but a little way
to fly -- and YOLO, the bird is on the wing.

Living the daydream. Another безродный космополит. Tracing the visionary company of love.

Anyway, you know that thing where people spend their entire twenties in grad school. Yeah, working on it. Math. Maybe I was your TA! But seriously, don't message me if that's true.

Half of what I do is perfect and the other half is art.

These mugs, for example. Or this shirt. Honi soit qui mal y pense.

Racially ambiguous (haïtien/ostjudische fourth culture kid, but look desi as fuck). Uncertainty in this matter is intolerable. "Where are you from?" "Seattle." "No, I mean *what* are you?"

Other than that, probably the halo.

I don't identify very much with my taste and I'm probably not paying much attention to yours. But I'll play along a little:

"New York school" poets, especially by way of Oklahoma. Vikram Seth (but I can't seem to finish "A Suitable Boy"). Donald Barthelme. Ann Beattie. Joan Didion. archy and mehitabel. Thomas Bernhard. i <3 ashbery -- don't judge. Chris Kraus!!! Kinda feeling Junot Diaz.

Maltese Falcon. Tout Va Bien. Chris Marker. Bedazzled (original version). Zoolander. I used to live around the corner from scarecrow in Seattle, it was easier then. I like movies, but it's not something I ever think to do.

Steve Reich. Mixtape rap. Mountain Goats. Alex Chilton. Das Racist. Oh and I started listening to the radio recently (chirp), so I'm discovering a lot of indie bs. Most of that stuff is good.

I've been baking my own bread for a while and it's starting to get good. Mushrooms over everything. The szechuan pepper import ban was a dark time in this nation's history. Mapo tofu. Ramen. I've only just proven to my satisfaction that I'm not allergic to almonds or peanuts. So we can add deez to the list.

I haven't found out yet.

Justice. Specifically how to evade it. My hustle, generally. Math. Music. Travel. Fellow travel. People and their stories.

Instead I'll tell you about some things I've been doing lately or would really like to start:

bread baking
contra dancing
other dance styles
playing jazz piano
learning NON-JAZZ guitar
karaoke (eat your heart out, john denver)
going to shows (this was my favorite regular thing in oakland)

I haven't been biking much lately, but I assume it'll be easy to get back into, like riding a bike. I know this is very important to a lot of you.

if you have a book recommendation,
if you want to show me around Logan Square (my new home!),
if you have a sourdough starter that you can share,
if you want to play music badly,
or if you didn't find anything on this list and were hoping to.