About Me: I'm a gay Jewish hippie geek who's very liberal, an occultist, and a registered Socialist. I've been described both as "an old soul" and as "a big kid", both of which I consider compliments. I have way too many books in my house, and way too many movies and TV shows on my computer. While I have a talent for fixing computers (and explaining how they work to non-technical folks), I'm much more of a literature nerd than a math nerd; I learn operating systems mostly the same way I learn languages, which is to say intuitively. I know enough about math (and programming languages) to be able to converse intelligently about them with a layperson, but if you're a mathematician or a programmer you'll exhaust my knowledge rather quickly.

I'm also very artistic - I love to write, sing, act... and debate, if that counts as an art. Sometimes I can be a little bit too compassionate, feeling responsible for other people's upset or hurt when it really has nothing to do with me. On the Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator, last I checked I was an ENFP... but the first time I took it, I was an INTP; I'm a natural introvert who's learned to love being with other people over time, but who sometimes still needs a little alone time to unwind. I tend to have amazing, grandiose ideas that I don't always follow through with, though lately I've developed more self-discipline and I'm actually working on three different book projects concurrently.

My interests are fairly typical geek, with some hippie thrown in. They include comic books, role-playing games (tabletop and LARP), video games (especially retro consoles like SNES), tinkering with computers and Linux, good science fiction and fantasy of all types, movies (particularly mind-fuck cinema like David Lynch or Richard Kelly), camping, regional burn festivals (think Burning Man but smaller), Pennsic War, skiing, cats (I have two, and am watching a third for a friend), and religion / mythology / the occult. Psychology also interests me quite a bit... I'm thinking of going into some kind of mental health profession eventually. For now, though, I'm a freelance computer support guy. My company is called "The Computer Wizard".

About what I'm looking for: Although I'm not pagan myself, I tend to get along really well with pagans. The same is true with people who are in the SCA, into BDSM, poly, or furries... I have friends who are all of the above, despite being pretty vanilla myself. I tend to like things a certain way, but don't really identify as either dominant or submissive... it varies, as I think it does in most people.

I'm as likely to spend an hour having a philosophical, political or religious discussion with you as I am to spend that hour playing the Simpsons arcade game with you, or smoking a hookah with you... or all of the above at once, if you have the stamina. During that time, you'd probably be crawled upon and nuzzled by at least one or two of my cats, Mufasa and Nemo. I am a hardcore liberal in most ways, although I do believe pretty strongly in traditional marriage (in other words, if you and your SO are planning on having a kid together, that means you should get married). While I'm pro-choice, I think it's pretty despicable to be using abortion as a regular form of birth control... it really should not be taken lightly, and I would support mandatory sterilization for women who frequently use it instead of condoms. When it comes to issues like these, I always enjoy debating with someone who disagrees, as long as you're someone who understands that a person can disagree with you and still be worthy of respect.

Working for myself, doing computer support, mostly for old Jewish people... my business web site is computerwizard.us; several book projects, and a top-secret business project with my uncle; co-running a small heretical Jewish group (smoke.academy23.org); on hiatus from school for now; getting in shape (Planet Fitness rules!).

Singing, pontificating (especially about religion), explaining things, writing, fixing computers, learning languages, role-playing / improv, trivia, chaos magic, and being loyal (even when it isn't in my own best interest... working on that). I used to be really good at appearing innocent, which in some cases meant people assumed I was straight... actually, that does still happen sometimes.

Is usually my massive Jew-fro hair, although these days it's usually pretty well tamed (except in the morning, if you're lucky / unlucky enough to see that). After that, it depends a little on who you are... to some people, I'm the weirdest dude they know, but to others I'm the normal guy among a bunch of utter freaks.

Books: Anything by Neil Gaiman, particularly Sandman, American Gods and Stardust; Ender's Game & Speaker For the Dead, by Orson Scott Card; Dragonlance, Rose of the Prophet, and Death Gate Cycle by Weis and Hickman; House of Leaves; sacred texts of any tradition, as long as they're well translated (e.g., Bible, Mahabharata, Tao Te Ching); The Templar Revelation; The Hiram Key; anything by Peter Carroll; the Principia Discordia; Watchmen and V for Vendetta, by Alan Moore; Wrestling with God and Men: Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition, by Rabbi Steven Greenberg; Magic of the Ordinary: Reclaiming the Shamanic in Judaism and Way of the Boundary Crosser: An Introduction to Jewish Flexidoxy, both by Gershon Winkler; The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini; His Dark Materials, by Philip Pullman; anything by Christopher Moore, especially the "Bloodsucking Fiends" series; Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, by Tom Robbins; The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon; Life of Pi, by Yann Martel; The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky; The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Colllins; The Emperor of All Maladies, by Siddhartha Mukherjeej; The World Made by Hand series by James Kunstler; The Death of Bunny Munro, by Nick Cave; The Dune series by Frank Herbert; anything by Malcolm Gladwell; Wild Seed, by Octavia Butler; Lisey's Story and Duma Key, by Stephen King.

Movies: Mulholland Drive, Desperate Remedies, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, eXistenZ, American Beauty, pi, Requiem for a Dream, Better than Chocolate, Melvin Goes to Dinner, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Shock Treatment, Phantom of the Paradise, Donnie Darko, Dark City (Director's Cut), Boondock Saints, Equilibrium, The Animatrix, Spirited Away, Cowboy Bebop: Knocking on Heaven's Door, Darkside Blues, Enemy Mine, Southland Tales

TV Shows: Star Trek (mostly TNG, DS9 and Voyager, and occasionally TOS), Xena: Warrior Princess, X-Files, The Oblongs, Robot Chicken, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Sealab 2021, Home Movies, Invader Zim, Carnivale, Neverwhere, South Park, The 4400, Red Dwarf, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Twin Peaks, Six Feet Under, Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica, Doctor Who, Fringe, Dexter, Nurse Jackie

Music:
Bands - Nick Cave and Bad Seeds, They Might Be Giants, Moxy Fruvous, Dar Williams, Kula Shaker, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Prodigy, Morphine, Tom Petty, George Michael, New Order, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Queen, Poe, Erasure, Annie Lennox/Eurythmics, Mediaeval Baebes, Fool's Garden, Madonna, Lady Gaga, Weird Al Yankovic, Roxette, New Order, Erasure, Modern Talking, The Killers

Soundtracks - Dark City, American Beauty, Rent, Chicago, Phantom of the Opera, Once on this Island, Better than Chocolate, The Life, The Fantasticks, Les Miserables, Miss Saigon, Sweeney Todd, Jekyll and Hyde (all versions), Into the Woods, Assassins, Anyone Can Whistle, Myst, Riven, The Longest Journey, Avenue Q, Shock Treatment, Glee

Food: I enjoy most types of ethnic food, particularly Italian, Indian, Mexican, Thai, Chinese (Dim Sum especially), Japanese and Ethiopian. Favorite food items include artichoke, mushrooms, gnocchi, pudding, and good alcohol, particularly wine and mixed drinks.

Good friends; creative pursuits like writing, singing, improv and role-playing; good food; respectful, complete honesty; conundrums & paradoxes of all kinds; cats

Good books, TV, movies, particularly ones that are a complete mindfuck and make me feel broken for a while. Computers and other electronical things. Tolerance, equality, open-mindedness, and how to encourage these virtues in others. Sex. Drugs. Genre-crossing music. Not always in that order. Linux. My cats - what they want or need, and/or how to get them to stop doing things that are annoying. Religion/mythology/magic/the occult, as mentioned above.

Either at a LARP, at karaoke at the Blue Moon, or possibly out of town for the weekend if there's a burn or a Four Quarters event (www.4qf.org). Or home watching TV or playing Xbox.

I believe in being as honest and truthful as possible, while still being as kind as I can. This means I'm probably a bit more direct than you're used to, and that I won't censor myself unless I have a very good reason to. This also means I give great constructive criticism.

Also, if I were to have a fetish, it would probably be for bisexual guys. Technically that's a partialism, not a fetish, but I'm not all that kinky so you'll have to take what you can get. :)

I intensely dislike road names that end in "Pike" or "Run Road". It's also a pet peeve of mine when someone mentions something in passing and then refuses to explain it further.

I have a manipulative / vindictive streak that I try very hard not to indulge, and normally succeed. If you have plans of world domination or mad scientistery, however, please consider me as a candidate for your right hand man. (Insert evil laughter here.)

I can be very literal. Sometimes that means you might have to explain something more than once if your communication style is very different from mine.

I've had several erotic dreams about people who I have literally no interest in. Some of them were women. No idea why.

I can be a bit long-winded... but if you've read this far, you know that already.

My profile interests you, you think we have something in common, or you feel like it. Good conversation is something I'm always into, online or in person - good conversation about controversial topics, especially so. If you like to get together and play games - tabletop RPGs, video games, card games, board games, whatever - so much the better.

Be advised: If your message to me contains blatantly awful grammar or spelling, including "words" such as "u", "ur", "sup", or "boi", expect either no response or one that makes fun of you.