I’m funny and outspoken, sometimes quiet and often thoughtful. How to express my sharp, finely tuned and expertly crafted superfun personality in this medium? Impossible. You have to take my word for it. I am exceptional. Date me.

I consider myself an intellectual, with equal appreciation for lowbrow humor. A bit less a party animal, increasingly somewhat nesty these days. And yet I'll make it out to ALL the summer concerts. Ask me what excellent bands I've seen this summer!

I like to think I’m an excellent writer and organized thinker but evidently, I can be quite parenthetic, tangential, superfluous and occasionally wicked corny. I get distracted.

I believe that nobody's perfect, everyone is a work in progress, and that's a good thing. I value subjectivity and humility.

I care about art and social justice, good food, culture and families.

I'm adjunct teaching, consulting for non-profits, and (sort of) running business. It's all incredibly fun, exciting and intensely frustrating. I like to be able to direct my professional energy to doing good in the world. Update: I just told my so-called partners to stick it and quit the business. "Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you or makes you happy" is my cliche of the season. I'm looking for a big time career boost, which may include a move overseas for at least 6 mo to a year. Yay!!

Aside from working, I like to kick it in Brooklyn, go to the movies, ride a bike when the weather's nice, snuggle up when it's not. I like making crafty things, taking and making photos, collages, paintings, and recently - reading again (thank god for reading!).

poppin and lockin, clownin', maxin' and chillaxin', dancin' and prancin', talkin trash and drinkin mash.

red hair and glasses? covered in freckles? accompanied by bike and backpack?

Somebody recently told me that my laugh sounds like Betty Rubble's... tee hee

TV shows: The Wire, Project Runway, RuPaul's Drag Race is super subversive fun, and everything on NBC on Thursday nights. I've been doing the live streaming netflix thing more than watching TV recently.
My favorite food is avocado.
I regularly read New York Mag. I love books by and about New York/ers (Auster), Beats (Kerouak, Burroughs), Russians (Lolita, Master and Margatita), short stories by Cheever or Carver. Loved Middlesex, Cavalier & Clay, Life of Pi... Currently reading Oscar Wao (Diaz) and Freedom (Franzen). Scratch that; currently reading The Marriage Plot (Eugenides). It's quite good.

Some greatest Hits, music-wise: Talking Heads, Minutemen, Nick Drake, David Bowie, Stevie Wonder, ELO, Wilco, Elliott Smith, Fela, Nina Simone, Modern Lovers, Television, X, De La Soul, TV on the Radio, Manu Chau, Kool Keith, Bob Marley, Jay Z, Handsome Boy Modeling School, George Harrison, Devo, Cody Chestnutt, B52s, Built to Spill, Bad Brains, Dub, 80s, punk, disco, hip hop, classical, jazz. Recent new favorite is TuneYards. Check her out if you haven't yet!

Things I like that aren't books, movies, music or food: parties, flea markets, antiques, museums and mellow bars, picknicking in Prospect Park, biking around the 'hood, beaches, woods and mountains, free concerts, block parties and hanging on the stoop in the summer.

reading

sex and death. the past and the future. meta-referentiality, postmodernism, the time space continuum, sampling, mashing and culture jamming, transnationalism, trans-anything really.

also, what do people mean when they say they're on here looking for "friends"?

I'm considering a move to Mexico City. Scratch that, I'm considering being a single mom and going to nursing school.

Hopefully out of the house, or in the house with people/person I like/love.

I can be quiet or introverted (but I snap out of it eventually), occasionally emotional, indecisive or self-conscious. Sometimes I feel old and out of it, but mostly I feel awesome and over-it.

you have a warm smile and easy laugh; are a deep thinker and deep feeler; care about making a good impression; care about the world; have an open heart and the time/desire to hang out for a possible eventual something real-ness...