ATTENTION: I know it says I've been on here since July 2007, but, quite often, I get annoyed about all this- thus, I remove myself from it for awhile. I can think of at least three times this has happened. I just don't have the heart to delete this (I worked hard on it!) unlike everyone else I know on here.

I'm a half-Irish and half-Chinese cat born and raised in New York City. Proud to be from the greatest city in the world. With that in mind, I'm a big fan of walking and exploring. Even though I was born here in the city, I'm always on the look out for new things to do, see, and, perhaps most importantly, eat. Also, going to museums for new exhibits- I used to go to the museum for my birthday when I was a kid. I love sitting on roofs late at night, debating and random words. Also, late-night talking about nothing and everything. I follow the saying "Think globally. Act locally."

I host a trivia night every Thursday. It's wonderful and I love it- I'm a bit like Alex Trebek. If you don't like trivia, maybe you should just move on.

Hey, Vampire Weekend! I give a fuck about an oxford comma. They're amazing. So shut the fuck up and give Paul Simon back his sound.

A very good friend of mine recently had sandwiches with me in a great shop in Albany and said, "You know who you remind me of? John Cusack's character in High Fidelity." He couldn't explain why. However, I think I'm a little bit more like a cross between A.J. and Lucas from Empire Records, except that I'm not that into Liv Tyler and not quite so mopey.

I have a bit of a credo: "It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees." Emiliano Zapata said that.

I would say that the closest thing to my heart is writing and reading- always looking for new books, films, music, and art.

P.S.- I'm not sure how it is determined that I am in fact "aggressive," but I don't really see that. I suppose I may not be the most sedated person, but I'm certainly not going to punch random people in the street for giving me the "eye". Just to rectify and clear up my good, online name.

Well, aside from the dashing trivia host, I'm also a free-lance writer. For the moment. I'm still looking for a more permanent job, but the word 'career' sometimes makes me a little uncomfortable- however, I will face facts and admit that I need one sooner rather than later.

Free-lancing in what? Well, currently, I've been working for fashion designers as a copywriter (and I deeply don't care about fashion); you know those blurbs on websites and catalogues that describe products. Yours truly. Soul-sucking work...but it's the best I can do for now.

Interesting conversations. Strange stories. Self-aggrandizement. Self-debasement through mirth. Debating. Getting really awkward when caught in a bad situation. X-Files quotes. I'm not really good at this, but I'm pretty good at playing basketball and soccer. Making lists. Answering all the questions in Jeopardy!

Do you mean: when I'm walking down the street and someone passes me by? Or when I'm talking with someone? Probably that I'm singing under my breath, with or without headphones in. A date once told me that the first feature she notices of mine is my beard- that worries me slightly. If it's the second one, that I'm a bit too smart for my own good (rather, I like to think I'm smart) and I'm ultra-liberal; being political and debating is very important to me. Yes, I am a feminist and a socialist. By no means, am I a patriot.

Before, I had these long run-on lists, so now I'm just going to do a top ten. They're not in any order.

books: James Joyce's Ulysses. Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Pablo Neruda's Residence on Earth. Jorge Luis Borges' Labyrinths. Allen Ginsberg's Howl. Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara. Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America. The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx. Anne Sexton's Transformations. Kathy Acker's Great Expectations. I just sunk my teeth into the awesome 2666 by Roberto Bolaño I know it's been just a year since it was released in English here, but I'm so far behind on my reading.

music: I'll only list the absolute heroes and what I've been listening to lately; anything else, check out http://www.last.fm/user/RogerThornhill/ Bob Dylan. Talking Heads. Paul Simon. The Fiery Furnaces. Beirut. Iron & Wine. Fiona Apple. Neutral Milk Hotel- call me what you want, but In the Aeroplane Over the Sea might be the greatest album ever created. Ben Sollee. Four of the most beautiful things I've ever heard in my life are: Joanna Newsom's Cosmia, anyone's version of Hallelujah (it's easily my favorite song, and I absolutely adore Leonard Cohen- partially because I sound like him), Maria Callas' rendition of O mio babbino caro and Enrico Caruso singing Vesti la giubba. Also, Matt & Kim are the closest thing to the perfect couple from the outside: they're always silly, smiling, energetic and support each other. That's also how I would describe their music catalogue.

films: foreign films. absurdist comedies. Alfred Hitchcock. Quentin Tarantino. Luc Besson. David Lynch. Wes Anderson. David Cronenberg. Dziga Vertov; Man with a Movie Camera = best film ever made. Luis Buñuel. Francois Truffaut. Spike Lee. Stanley Kubrick. Christopher Guest. Jean-Luc Godard. Citizen Kane. Right after seeing Garden State in theatres, I said to myself: "This is going to be a seminal movie; the kind of thing that will change my life." I was right. Harold and Maude. On the Waterfront; really, anything with Marlon Brando. I'm convinced Indiana Jones would beat the hell out of James Bond, and will debate the validity of that statement until I die.

food: I try to be a pescetarian, with some success, but I sometimes struggle. tea. coffee; real coffee from small cafes. Italian. French. Ethiopian. sushi, esp. futo-maki.. brick-oven pizza. I have a deep hatred for all major coffee chains, but especially Starbucks. peanut butter! Anything with apple, except for those jelly apple rings (I don't really like chewy things).

misc.: Flight of the Conchords. The Twilight Zone. The X-Files. Rachel Maddow. Keith Olbermann. Bill Maher. The Colbert Report. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. John Leguizamo. Chris Rock. Lewis Black. Anthony Bourdain. Jeopardy. Nightline. Sérgio Vieira de Mello. João Magueijo. Bill Moyers. webcomics like Questionable Content, Dinosaur Comics, A Softer World, Dr. McNinja, Least I Could Do, Scary Go Round and Diesel Sweeties.

I think it's a shame I have so few women on this list; I think it just goes to show you how far we have to go in the world.

My friends. My sister and her cat- (they come as a package). My mp3 player. Coffee. Wikipedia. Karl Marx.

The world. The universe. European football (soccer). Baseball and the Yankees, but I'm not an asshole fan, unlike most of them. Conspiracies. Death from assassination. Elections. Geography. International politics. Coup d'etats. The interactions between people, nature, the ethereal, etc. Black holes- they're now conjecturing that, due to the conservation of matter, there would be its antithesis, the white hole, where the universe recycles matter; and that the universe is centered around a black hole (see? fascinating!). I'm not much of a humanist, but I am a big believer in justice- this is how I justify being a feminist.

You can count on music, talking (more like shouting), and consumption. But I also love a quiet night; nice home-made dinner, good wine, and a few books of poetry to share.

I have a particularly big crush on Ellen DeGeneres. I know it'll never work, but I can still admire, right?

Or that I tend to be kind of pretentious and intensely un-intense (or un-intensely intense).

It irks you like it irks me when people say or write, "People that..." rather than "People who..."; "Me and her are taking care of this" rather than "She and I are..."; anything like that.

You're an international spy. I generally respond to anything intriguing.

If you've ever been to Zanzibar; I'd love to know what it's like there.

You like to play Jeopardy.