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Nicholai

Nicholai

About Me

I live a very reclusive life in New York -- I try desperately to be left alone so that I can spend all of my time writing.I am the Floor Manager at the NY Transit Museum, which basically means I wander around a disused subway station all day and make sure that the 100-year-old trains are not on fire, and that none of the visitor service associates / security personnel are on fire either.

My Interests

I like to write; this is basically all that I do with what spare time I have.

I'd like to meet:

Genuine people, who have realized that they are not, in fact, cool, and who avoid saying/doing things to put other people down.

Music:

Morrissey, The Smiths, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Lucksmiths, Mira, Ivy, Poe, The Cure, The Cruxshadows, Duran Duran, Sisters of Mercy, Depeche Mode, Bauhaus, Tom Lehrer, Garbage, Ladytron, Belle and Sebastian, Rasputina, Ego Likeness, Bella Morte, Army of Lovers, Pet Shop Boys, VNV Nation, David Bowie, Voltaire ...

Movies:

The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Office Space, A Clockwork Orange, The Mascot, Ghostbusters, Hannibal, The Silence of the Lambs, GoldenEye, Labyrinth, Nightmare Before Christmas, Pi, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Amelie, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Princess Bride, V for Vendetta ... I'm sure there are plenty more.

Television:

Star Trek, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Daria, Sealab 2021, Oz, The Screensavers, Invader Zim, Pete & Pete ...

Books:

My favorite book is 'Good Omens', but this is subject to whimsical change.

Heroes:

My heroes are few; and they're all dead anyway.

My Blog

Some nebulae and a few galaxies.

I took this picture about an hour ago, quite by accident, while haplessly fiddling with long-exposures.http://www.geocities.com/seph545/small.jpgI was surprised and pleased by the level of astronomica...
Posted by Nicholai on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:07:00 PST

Free speech what?

What the HELL.http://www.cnn.com/2006/EDUCATION/10/11/instructor.sept .11.ap/index.html?section=cnn_topstories....I don't give a bloody fucking DAMN how crazy, radical, outrageous, stupid, weird or obn...
Posted by Nicholai on Thu, 12 Oct 2006 08:26:00 PST

Whaaaaaaat the FUCK!!!

I knew it!I knew this day would come!The very living consciousness of the universe itself is ACTUALLY trying to KILL me via sleep-deprivation!Each moment it becomes necessary to do so, some new, incre...
Posted by Nicholai on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 07:42:00 PST

Reign of Error.

So, I was sitting here not moments ago, and the phrase "Rain of Air" popped into my head.And then I thought, "Hey, that's a funny pun off of 'Reign of Terror'."And then I thought, "Hey, if I spell it ...
Posted by Nicholai on Tue, 19 Sep 2006 03:22:00 PST

A sense of Urgency.

Preface:  Religion = garbage.Preface 2.0:  Belief systems = good.I don't often pose questions of a religious-nature any longer since most attempts of having them (specifically the Christian ...
Posted by Nicholai on Sun, 17 Sep 2006 03:09:00 PST

Dragon*Boobs

Well, the great madness that is Dragon*Con has come and gone...All in all, I rate it fairly highly.  Like all Dragon*Cons, it had its ups and downs, ranging the gamut of feelings between moments ...
Posted by Nicholai on Wed, 06 Sep 2006 11:17:00 PST

The Convention of Dragons.

As of tomorrow, I will be in Atlanta, GA, enjoying the primary function of the physics-bound universe and the ultimate purpose of observable reality.  (i.e. Dragon*Con) ......Between the twenty o...
Posted by Nicholai on Wed, 30 Aug 2006 09:29:00 PST

Argh beach!

I am in Florida........  do I even know anybody in Florida? I'm bored.  Somebody come sit on the beach with me.      ~ Nicholai ...
Posted by Nicholai on Sat, 05 Aug 2006 11:52:00 PST

Smarterchild is my best friend in the whole world.

Xelzor: I need to talk to a crazy religious buffoon about HellSmarterChild: You really want to talk to a crazy religious buffoon about hell?Xelzor: yes.SmarterChild: Aha.Xelzor: So, supply me with a C...
Posted by Nicholai on Thu, 27 Apr 2006 02:33:00 PST

Black clothes = Violence! Eureka!

I hate the news.I firmly believe that nobody has ever decided to shoot up their school unless one of the two following was true:1. They were, with regularity, mercilessly mocked and ridiculed by their...
Posted by Nicholai on Wed, 26 Apr 2006 01:40:00 PST