I love the arts, stretching my toes in sand, my cat, finishing projects, Viognier and Barbera, kissing earlobes, cigarettes at 3am and meeting the perfect stranger.

Chicagoan at heart and in blood. Cascadia was a longtime home.

I do what I love. I design user experiences. I oblige conversations with strangers. I'm secretly planning my escape to an undisclosed city in Eastern Europe.

Guessing games. Ordering at restaurants. Analysing user behaviour. Tapping into my long-term memory. Approving female wardrobe selections. Getting lost. Pinball.

the smoke in my eyes

Taken by Trees is keeping me up.
Henry Miller, Band of Outsiders, Camera Obscura, smoked salmon, pickles and cheese
Bukowski, Masculin Feminin, The Clash, bacon veggie burgers
Milan Kundera, Fado, Rioja, mac n' yeease w/ heirloom tomatoes
Who's that Knocking at My Door?, Velvet Underground, Brooklyn Lager

Estopa, Parker Posey, Raveonettes, Glucklich ... Woody Allen and Michel Legrand when it's raining... Harlan Ellison and Ring Lardner and Nelson Algren and Whitman on quiet nights ... Kerouac, Burroughs and Joy Division and Paul Weller and the Smiths and Gang of Four and the Cure when I'm drinking ... Billie and Coltrane and Miles ... Cat Power and Jolie Holland and Jimmy Reed/Smith the morning after ... Neruda and Mean Streets and Jean Vigo and Paco de Lucia and Mad Men and Nancy Sinatra and Connie Francis and Naked Raygun ... Velasquez, De Kooning, Stereolab, Stone Roses.

Dorothy Parker is grand.
' Hemingway
Louis CK lately

Humility
Black Leather
Ocean Air
Kisses
Authenticity
Favourite Shoes

How fun it would be if humans had tails that moved in sync to our emotions like dogs n cats do.

Out with co-workers for drinks and food. Or at a show at the Fillmore or Fox. Possibly at a dive bar. Sometimes just re-watching Pandora's Box at home with my cat.

Alison K's Two Highways wets my eyes

You are Anna Karina.

You're a really smart, funny, cute woman who loves their hair, smells like a Matisse painting, knows how to handle a kitchen knife, can dance in heels, who's traveled to Europe, and can keep up on a jaunt up to Twin Peaks. Leftists and Lefties encouraged.

And I have been enslaved by a benevolent black cat. So, he must approve. And it would help things if you had a valid passport.