About This Joint
Last modified on September 29th 2008
So I’m in the process of updating this site, refreshing many of the pages. This would explain the absence of paragraphical content here. For the time being you get lists, which seems to be the preferred method of weblog consumption anyway.
I Am These Things
Places I’ve Called Home
- Born in San Diego, California
- Raised on a family farm in rural Central New York
- Spent eight years in Guilford, Conneticut
- Flagstaff, Arizona for two
- South-Eastern Vermont for three
- Spent three years in the Adirondaks
- Three living in Portland, Maine
- Four additional ones in Birmingham, Alabama
- Currently living in Huguenot, New York
A Random and Incomplete Work History
- Worked on a carpentry crew in the Adirondacks
- Dishwasher at a cafe/comicbook store (easily the best job ever)
- Residential treatment facility for teenage girls
- Community organizer (the horror!) for recent immigrants
- Projectionist (sounds better than the alternatives)
Miscellany
- Graduated from Marlboro College
- Married, no kids
- Almost attended Goddard Graduate School
- Decided to be a hermit instead
Areas of Keen Interest
- DBT (Dialectical Behavior Theory)
- Relational-Cultural Theory
- Ken Wilber’s holistic generalizations
- Post World War II American History
- Organic Farming
A Few of My Favorite Things
- Sunday Mornings
- The Smell of Vanilla
- The Smell of Fresh Cut Grass
- The Smell of Sea and a Working Wharf
- Portland, Maine
- South-Eastern Vermont
- Fall in New England
- Winter in New England
- Guinness
- Living Near the Ocean
- The New York Giants
- The Boston Red Sox
- The Syracuse Orangemen (I won’t use Orange)
- The Enigma that is Manny Ramirez
- Coffee in a Speeder and Earle Mug
- My MacBook Pro
- Rural towns and their culture
- Brain fried hippies
- Low Flying Helicopters
- Not Using Shoelaces
- Taking Off Socks
- Waking up Next to My Wife
- The Beauty of a Quiet Library
- The Rush of Smoking Crack in a Wal-Mart Parking Lot
A Few Things I Dislike - For Balance
- Magazine Leaflets
- Snobbish Entitlement
- New Age Narcissism
- Olives
- The 1988 New York Giants
- Hovering Behavior
- Watching Petulant Toddlers Run America
- Missing the Cable Guy
- Rude Barnyard Animals
- Shoelaces
- Being trapped in a room with Fundamentalists
- Grammar Nazis
