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About Me

If you put stock in astrology... this is what you'll get .
I'm a stealth jew. It's the nose: a hybrid specimen. Mom (Russian Jew) had the bump and dad (Euro-mutt WASP) had the button. I had blonde hair as a child, but you'd never know it now. (We'll see how long my nephew's lasts.) I'm a NYC native, but lack what people consider a "New York accent." I lived a couple of years in China, but decidedly lack the fetish. (I was on the completely wrong continent for nearly two years.) I used to have a habit of hosting random foreigners, but I think I've repayed the karmic debt I incurred for the assistance I recieved on my third move to Beijing.
As for keeping busy, I just finished law school, and instead of taking the bar, I'm negotiating with the DOJ for a project that offers rewards to immigrants reporting horrible crimes, but without them having to worry about getting deported.
I expect life will continue sending me back to Washington pretty regularly.

My Interests

reading, crude photography, sushi, global goings-on, reading, burlesque, the foreign service, criminal prosecution, minor myths (eg: the furies & medusa), rusty fencing, and just plain crappy tennis.

I'd like to meet:

Only one way to find out. People who'll make a mix CD for me would be nice, but not really necessary. AIM - "rswmenzi"

Music:

Insufficient for claiming hipster status, but it keeps me happy: lots of soundtracks (not scores), Leonard Cohen, Air, Bowie, Verve, U2, Portishead, Tori, Radiohead, Blondie, Cure, Smiths, Doors, Joy Division, Moby, Dido, Liz Phair...

Movies:

Blade Runner, Snatch, the Trouble with Harry, Million Dollar Hotel, Natural Born Killers, A Clockwork Orange, 3000 Miles to Graceland, Minus Man, Reservoir Dogs, Dune, Company Man, the Last Days of Disco

Television:

Conan O'Brian (stand-by tickets, baby), Adult Swim (when I'm up), Daily Show (I've been known to attend), Firefly ("Serenity"), Simpsons (of course). This American Life (radio, but it still counts)

Books:

The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy (yes, this is actually a book), Candide, Discipline and Punishment, the Plague, No Exit, Harry Potter, cheap Sci-Fi paperbacks (Gaiman, Stephenson, Haldeman, etc.), Siddhartha, The Killer Angels

My Blog

The Nephew

My nephew was a 9-pound, 14-ounce bundle of joy for my brother, and a one hell of a C-section for his wife. Add insomnia, shake, and you have a little Val... that's right "Val." Short for Valdis, my...
Posted by Richard on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Due Date

My brother's son was due yesterday. Apparently, he inherited the family trait of lateness. (I was a week past due myself. My brother was two weeks early, but it looks like that was a fluke.) If h...
Posted by Richard on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

A Conan Archive

------------ Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog has an archive, the Hawaii weather report is possibly the funniest thing I've seen on the insomniac TV schedule. Click on his name and go watch it... ...
Posted by Richard on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Delivery

------------- Delivered to me last night was the leftovers of my artistic periods. So strage how time and distance can allow you to see the good as well as the flaws. It seems my redirected, ab...
Posted by Richard on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Just got a call...

------------------ I just heard from my friend Ward, a Belgian I knew in China. I haven't heard from him in two years! He's doing well, working an import/export position on clothes and textiles a...
Posted by Richard on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST