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Tom

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About Me

A boring, yet spastic, bio-dork alcohol snob. I am a goofball, a news junkie, a liberal skeptic, and I can't help but identify any plant I see.

My Interests

Ecology, neotropics, plants, dirt, mycorrhizas, bourbon, beer, wine, cheese, cooking, hiking, biking, traveling, reading, latin culture, rock & roll, squash, and loudly lamenting about politics

I'd like to meet:

Ann Coulter, so I can encase her in banana jello. Oh, and squash players. Seriously.

Music:

Indie, punk rock, hip hop. Lately: The Thermals, The Soviettes, the Exploding Hearts, The Shins, Cat Power, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Black Eyes, Sleater-Kinney, Jeff Buckley, Iron & Wine, Bright Eyes, Pavement, Hot Snakes, old D4, Mos Def, Edan, Spoon, Neutral Milk Hotel, Langhorne Slim, Mommy & Daddy, PJ Harvey, Lifetime, None More Black, Pavement, The Pogues, The Slackers, Superchunk, Sonic Youth, the Roots, Yo La Tengo, Modest Mouse

Movies:

Royal Tenenbaums, Snatch, City of God, Rushmore, Secretary, Harold and Maude, Rocky Horror

Television:

eh.

Books:

The Poisonwood Bible, Prodigal Summer, Blind Assassin, A Fine Balance, Wicked, Slaughterhouse Five, Time Quake, A Man Without a Country, The World According to Garp, Lies my Teacher Told Me, Desert Solitaire, The War of Don Emanuel's Nether Parts, Nervous Conditions, White Teeth, Straight Man, Trinity