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Dan

Elephants don't have keys.

About Me


Street lights turn off when I walk under them. Not all the time, mind you, but way more often than they should. I'm not sure what this means. I have extremely poor impulse control. I hate hippies, telephones, and mushrooms. I've had a bona fide near-death experience. I don't have the whole girl thing figured out just yet. The president of the New York Dairy Farmer's Association gave me a vintage Niagara Falls Postcard from 1939. I have an extensive collection of hotel key cards. The Dalai Lama and I once got into an internationally-publicized tiff (no, seriously). I'm too emo. I like long jokes that seem like they aren't going anywhere, but really they are. I dislike being asked questions I couldn't possibly know the answer to. "Why doesn't my cell phone work?" I have absolutely no idea. I have very weak senses. My friends are my life. I am completely obsessed with food. I will school your ass at Street Fighter II, and don't think that I won't. I am proud to say that I know all of my MySpace friends in real life. I see no point in false humility. I am a patriot, and anyone who says otherwise is not. Give me something to win, and I'll win it.
Propagandhi for peta2.com"Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will." --Frederick Douglass

My Interests

The written word, vegan food, radical politics, humanism, British comedy, competition of any kind, people's idiosyncracies, toys, alcohol, dirty jokes, instigation, escalation, beliefs that can be proven through objective scientific evidence, white t-shirts.

I'd like to meet:

People who care about things.

Music:

All time: Weezer, Guns n' Fuckin' Roses, The Beatles, The Pixies, Sleater-Kinney, Black Star, Clipse, NOFX, Propagandhi, Bob Dylan, Elliott Smith, The Promise Ring, The Get Up KidsRight now: Sufjan Stevens, Bright Eyes, Rilo Kiley, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Tilly & The Wall, The Junior Varsity

Movies:

Docs: The Corporation, Enron, Outfoxed, Why We FightNot docs (?): Batman, Goodfellas, 12 Monkeys, True Romance, Out of Sight, Star Wars, Alien.

Television:

Oh boy do I hate TV. I do love my Simpsons DVDs though.

Books:

Thoreau: Walden; Rushdie: Midnight's Children, The Moor's Last Sigh; Nabakov: Lolita, Invitation to a Beheading; Marquez: Love In The Time Of Cholera; Jones: The Pugilist at Rest; Zinn: A People's History of the United States; Simmons: Ilium; The poetry of Keats, Yeats, Elliot, and Bishop.

Heroes:

My parents. My friends (you are all fucking amazing, seriously). Thoreau. King. Cobra Commander.

My Blog

The many faces of Christopher Hoyt Overton

Many of you know my roomate & co-conspirator, Mr. Chris Overton. The rest of you are simply yet to know him. Some of you have known him, if you know what I'm saying, and I think that you do,&...
Posted by Dan on Mon, 03 Jul 2006 01:55:00 PST

The hotel I'm in is censoring my internet usage

Like, for reals. I'm trying to search for photos of the Falun Gong (see upcoming entry), and it won't let me access images on the Falun Gong site. Why not? Evidently they've categorized that...
Posted by Dan on Sat, 01 Apr 2006 09:34:00 PST

New Study Proves Most Studies Are Bullshit

The following article appeared on CNN.com not too long ago:   Dating in cars: Things people notice Survey says cars can play an important role in dating, so keep it clean and don't ask for gas mo...
Posted by Dan on Fri, 20 Jan 2006 05:35:00 PST

Gubernatorial Politics

OK. So. Virginia is in the midst of a heated race for governor between Tim Kaine (D) and Jerry Kilgore (R). Theres also this sweet Independent named Russ Potts running, but hes kind of a whackjob and ...
Posted by Dan on Sat, 29 Oct 2005 05:22:00 PST

So I'm in Canada, eh?

Canada is sort of like a NERF US. Everything here is clean and in primary colors and has rounded edges. Nothing here can hurt you. It's like one of those rooms that they put autistic kids in so t...
Posted by Dan on Sat, 08 Oct 2005 06:15:00 PST

My glasses

So I have these new glasses. The thing is, I used to wear glasses, back in the day, back when I was a big nerd (on the outside; Im still a big nerd on the inside, where no one knows about it um, excep...
Posted by Dan on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST