CURRENT MISSION

Cooking a bang-up pesto sauce, deconstructing Time, writing a neverending eulogy for consumerism, hoping the Rams make the playoffs, communicating with Camus (clandestinely), trying to figure out how to get Bjork to meet me for coffee

ABOUT ME

Awww, I really dont like these "describe yourself" online bits. I mean, this usually unleashes some kind of existential crisis. "Who AM I?"

PHILOSOPHY

Probably something Ron Ziegler wrote...

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Pretty self-evident eh?

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

100% ma fee mushkile

Interests

Reds and Greens, the French Revolution, my wife, the metric system, cooking, public radio, Kissinger, Trolls (and the bridges under which they live), the 19th century, Boris Vian, little towns in Estonia, Pynchon novels, remembrance of things past, Jorge Luis Borges, 1991, hip hop, Palestine, my mommy, Argentina, flowers, Leon Trotsky, fallen aristocrats, pregnant cats, boxing, North African music, affordable scotch, the Tamil Tigers, Umberto Eco, outdated pop-culture references, St. Just, overheard conversations, the oud, the ocean, all the Caesars, Jurgatha, sodomy, the political trajectory of the American right, gossip, garlic, rural Spain...this could go on for awhile...

• cats
• culture
• writing
• cooking
• coffee
• flowers
• music
• boxing
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Pynchon, Chraibi, Nabokov, Eco, Borges, Camus, Woolf, Bukowski, Fowles, Delillo, Tolstoy, B. Cutler, Calvino, Prudhon, Zola, et al.

Lynch, Kubrick, Copola, Altman, Fincher, Cohen Bros, W. Anderson, et al.

Music: we'll talk later

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I was on a beach in Italy and a body washed ashore about ten meters from me...all ashen and bloated, I swear it winked at me...

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach: English Grammar and Horticulture

Would like to learn more about Forgery

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