CURRENT MISSION

Fighting the good fight & enjoying all this life has to off along the way

ABOUT ME
I just moved to Treme from Baltimore.

I'm a political/community organizer, a heavily tattooed recovering-punker. Like a true Marylander, I can be a laid-back good ole boy and a hipstery east coaster simultaneously.

I'm a great tour guide of Baltimore.

PHILOSOPHY

"Service to [the] people is the rent you pay for your space on this earth." - Juanita Jackson Mitchell

"If my neighbor is hungry - I feed him, but I keep my nose out of his business." Rep. "Big" Tim Sullivan (D-NY)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I haven't really used CS much. However, I do want to host here in NOLA. I did occasionally hang out with the Baltimore Couchsurfers, and for years I've doing couch surfing & hosting through friends and friends of friends.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've often couchsurfed around the country, and opened my home many a times to travelers, even if I just met them. However, I've yet to do so through this site. I look forward to changing that, but unfortunately I can't at this time.

Interests

Politics, music, good beer, different belief structures, good conversations/debates, & tattoos.

• culture
• poetry
• tattoos
• beer
• politics
• music
• surfing
• business
• history
• tourism

Music, Movies, and Books

Punk (psychobilly, cow punk, folk punk of every variety especially riot folk, ska-punk, oi, hardcore, street punk, surf-punk, 80's post-punk, riot grrl, etc), blues, jazz, zydeco, classic rock, 90's alternative, Irish rebel songs, freedom/political/protest songs, reggae/ska/dub/calypso, bluegrass/old-time, outlaw country (not to be confused for that pop-country crap on the radio), alt country, indie, R&B/funk/soul/neo-soul, independent hip-hop, etc. Always looking for new music - or at least new to me. Of course, I listen to a lot of NPR, usually WTMD, WPFW - Jazz & Justice (DC), WYPR, or WWOZ (NOLA) online. Also Austin Indepenent Radio & Boot Liquor Radio (online radio).

Movies: Coen Brothers films, Mel Brooks films, John Waters films, Kevin Smith films, most Tim Burton films, most pixar, old movies, independent, comedy, some sci-fi, drama, mysteries, historical, some westerns, mafia/crime movies, etc. I'll watch anything at least once really.

I read a bit of everything, Vonnegut is my favorite. Right now I've primarily been reading political/campaign related books, history (principally on labor & revolutionary movements of the 19th & early 20th centuries) as well as ones on comparative religion. Currently obsessed with all things Gaiman & Sedaris.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

When I lived/worked in Montana, I used my sole day off during a several month period to go to the Crow Nation's annual Pow Wow - the largest Native American Pow Wow in the US. "The Res" was a whole other world for someone from the east coast. The dances, outfits, songs, etc. There's not really enough space here to describe the experience.

visited 37 states (74%)Create your own visited map of The United States or Like this? try: Visual Poetry

Teach, Learn, Share

How to be able to organize hundreds of people, yet have such a disorganized car* that one can't fit more than one passenger.

*The cops once tried to search my car, and gave up out of sheer frustration. True story.

I'm also a great tour guide of New Orleans. History & current affairs, explaining our quirky & unique culture, showing one the great sites, eateries, bars, and everything else - I'm your guy.

Countries I’ve Visited

United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States