Warning: This Profile is literally 10yrs old, partially out of date, a little much, and maybe more different now.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

to be the kindness i want to see in the world.

Interests

Playfulness
Wittiness
culture jamming
social change
Creating (post-industrial) alternatives
Observing (immediate vicinity)
Awareness (immediate settings and global)
positive-impact-pleasure
fixing things
playing
improving my surroundings
learning
internalizing your externalities
WikiPedia browsing
speaking in accents (i'm using one now)
Freeganism (Low Impact Living)
Thinking about organizing my pile of stuff
making eye contact meaningful
Contra Dancing
Grooming (others)
fantasizing about sewing
Being extroverted
Praxis or Sitting in my Ivory Tower and talking about doing things to change the world and then researching how to on the internet and then talking about it more before cooking dinner with people and then making-out with girls.
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INTERESTS:
being more different
levels of awareness
learning
controlling chaos
being myself more
PolyAmory
Intentional Community
Figuring out how things/people work
Organizing people, things, events
Getting something done
Praxis
Deep Ecology
(the ineffable) Jouissance
Anarcho-Primitivism
Being Outside
Discovering what's inherent to Human Nature and what's Culturally Learned.
Consensus meeting facilitation skills
transcending my ego (or donating it to the thrift store)
Ecological Footprint
mason jars (snob)
baskets (snobbish)
snobby baskets to put my snobby mason jars in

• culture
• dancing
• cooking
• coffee
• thrifting
• dumpster diving
• ecology

Music, Movies, and Books

The books that put you on an FBI watch list (on amazon.com in might start with a 'Jen' and end with a 'sen').
AdBusters (magazine).
any textbook.
WikiPedia.
Psychology and Consumer Culture -the Struggle for a Good Life in a Materialistic World.
The Forrest for the Trees -An introduction to Sociological Thinking.
The Owner's Manual for the Brain.
Buddhism- Plain and Simple.
Ethical Slut.
Walden.
Collapse.
Omnivore's Dilemma.
1491.
Prescription for Nutritional Healing.
From the Fyer to the Fuel Tank -the Complete Guide to Using Vegetable Oil as an Alternative Fuel.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

saw myself drive to participate in Critical Mass. that was pretty amazing.

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