I am scrappy, fiesty, and carbon-based.
My Self-Summary
A Philly transplant by way of Wisconsin, I like
comic books and
roller derby, terrible
science
fiction movies and great food that looks more dangerous than it
really is.
More often than not, I get described as a wiseass. I'm pretty quiet
the first time you meet me, but if I like you, I warm up
quick.
I love
adventures and adventuring, just not
in your typical Colorado-an sense. I prefer my death-defying in the
form of castle spelunking, reverse escalator riding, haunted prison
wrestling, road trip navigating, and/or various other events that
may or maynot someday get me dead.
What I’m doing with my life
I'm currently a full time grad student. I'm not sure if I love it
or hate it.
When I'm not up to my ears in gradschoolations, I pretend to be
invested in bartending (was previously, not currently), climb as
many things with as few ropes as I can, and try to make time for
prize winning
bar
sports. It's a tough life, but someone's gotta live it.
I’m really good at
Reading
comic
books, laughing at
b movies, remembering obscure scifi
short stories,
tetris, ordering Shirley Temples with a
straight face, supporting the creative endeavors of my friends
(whether or not they suck), telling my friends that their creative
endeavors might actually suck,
geeking out over some band you've
never heard of, moshing clockwise, puddle jumping, moon tanning,
trying to eat my weight in waffles, writing honestly, tangrams,
flower arranging.
I'm really
bad at:
bowling,
mini golf, drinking wine, maintaining
my composure in polite company, ordering food in foreign countries,
parallel parking,
astrophysics, remembering the
scoring notation for
baseball, faking happiness,
scrabble, writing these
profiles. Not like any of that stops me from trying.
The first things people usually notice about me
I know a little bit about damn near everything. Consequently, I get
way too excited about
Quizzo.
My favorite books, movies, music, and food
I feel like I should mention that this is by no means a finite
list, or even a checklist. Please, dear god, do not use it as a
checklist. I love it when people have their own interests. That
being said, I [i]do[/i] thinks that common interests account for
something... like, if I like
discordian avant-metal
(I do. A lot.) and your favourite frontman is Scott Stapp, or I
like
dinosaurs
and you like Kirk Cameron, then, y'know, we're probably not going
to jive.
a)
The
Phantom Tollbooth,
Jonathan Livingston
Seagull, Brave New World, The Bicentennial Man, His Dark
Materials;
Preacher,
Transmetropolitan,
Concrete, Fables,
Amazing
Spider Man;
Paul Auster, F. Paul Wilson,
Bill
Bryson.
b) The Matrix,
Josie and the Pussycats,
Land of the
Dead,
Logan's Run,
Cabin Fever, Robot Jox, Bill
and Ted's Bogus Journey, Mystery Men, Newsies,
In the Mouth of
Madness, The Game, Cube, The Sandlot.
c)
The
Weakerthans, Nirvana,
Garbage,
Manowar,
Idlewild,
Holy Fuck,
Brainiac,
The Faint, Pig Destroyer,
Shellac,
The Flaming Lips,
John Zorn,
Lightning
Bolt, bands you've never heard of, blah blah blah.
d) Ice creams of the future.
Where does
Patton Oswalt fit in here? Oh.
Right there. Howdy.
The six things I could never do without
standardcrapanswersmooshedtogethertocountasone, lox & cream
cheese, geektastic friends,
live music, living in fear of an
Irony Singularity, a comfy bra.
I spend a lot of time thinking about
Who the hell thought giving Dan Brown a book deal was a good idea.
Extended gambits. Distractions.
Leonardo DaVinci.
Time travel. Time
travel in comic books. Why liberal hotheads are just as infuriating
as conservative hotheads. Why don't I have a better cup of
tea in front of me
right now? Why concept cars never look as good in production as
they did in prototype. Am I really immune to poison ivy? The
effectiveness of certain mass market ad campaigns. Logan kicking
the wussy out of Scott Summers.
Curling. Cursing.
Socktopi. Old relationships. New
relationships.
Edison and
Tesla. The future.
My future. Where
to go and how to get there. Whether or not my brain has a secret
Off switch.
On a typical Friday night I am
Trying to figure out how to make "hanging out with friends and not
caring who hears me" sound more impressive than it really is.
The most private thing I’m willing to admit here
I might be the most un-outdoorsy person ever to move to
Colorado.
Double secret: I'm willing to give most of it a shot - but I need
patient encouragement. I hate feeling like the newbie in a sea of
grizzled old expert whatever-ers.
You should message me if
You think you can one-up me with some sort of bizarrely obscure
arcana, and make me laugh while doing it. If you can make me laugh,
pretty much everything else is irrelevant. Compatible senses of
humor can't be tested for or "matched" on the interwebz, but I'm
always on the lookout for it.
You have interests BESIDES hiking-biking-skiing-climbing. Don't get
me wrong, these things are awesome, but come ON, Colorado. I know
you're more interesting than that.
...Willing to forgive this re-friggin-diculous username I'm stuck
with would be pretty swell, too.