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Esotera Incognita

What is this 'Ohr-ee-oh' you speak of?

About Me

I view you as the contents of your mind. It's a nice perk if that comes in pretty packaging, but i'm not into seashells.I like watching birds, skinny sighthounds, pretty boys, and herptiles. I also band birds, own two hounds, and every once in a while catch a lizard or snake.I specialise in useless information. If you can designate the esoteric topic, i can deliver a discourse. My friends call me a walking encyclopedia; it's only halfway a compliment.I have few redeeming qualities. I'm working on jettisoning those too.I find myself identifying far too closely with the character Miles from 'Sideways'. Except i don't drink and know nothing of wine. Which leaves...yeah....I'm a firm believer in the 10-second rule for food and the 3-minute rule for people.I am socially backwards but good at faking it.I cogitate quickly but have a short attention span.Oooh, look at that...let's click there...!

My Interests

Photography, birding, sighthounds, travel, wildlife, conservation. Various recombinations of aforementioned. Environmental endocrinology. Politics and world events.

I'd like to meet:

Distractions from this sysiphean life.The longer i live, the more my innate cynicism is justified. Surprise me.

Music:

Currently on rotation: Keane, Morrissey, Jeff Mangum, Suede, Flaming Lips, Cat Stevens, Pulp, Bjork, Iron and Wine, Dylan.

Movies:

Cinema Paradiso; Three Colours trilogy; Trainspotting; Annie Hall; The Graduate; American Beauty; The Crying Game; The Princess Bride; Amores Perros; The Royal Tennenbaums; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Hedwig and the Angry Inch; Lord of the Rings; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; Best in Show; Spy Games; Chaplin films.

Television:

Don't watch it, but like documentaries and BBC news.

Books:

FICTION: The works of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Cormac McCarthy, Kazuo Ishiguro, Gita Mehta, Neil Jordan, Douglas Coupland. Robert Grudin's "Book: A Novel". "The Princess Bride". NONFICTION: Joseph Campbell, Rene Girard. POETRY: T.S. Eliot, Seamus Heaney, Naomi Shihab Nye, Virginia Hamilton Adair. And anything and everything by the incomparable Berkeley Breathed.

Heroes:

Jacques Yves Cousteau, Jim Henson, Jeff Mangum

My Blog

Breaking news!

This just in: "White House Proposes Intelligence Changes" (K.P Scrader, Associated Press) Who knew the miracles of modern medicine now included brain transplants?
Posted by Esotera Incognita on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Fight Crime! Ask your gynecologist how!! (C)

Yesterday the ban on partial-birth abortions was overruled by U.S. District Judge Richard Casey. It will undoubtedly go into appeals and, if Dubya remains in office, the ban will eventually be upheld...
Posted by Esotera Incognita on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST