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Evan

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

I own a toaster, and I have a tattoo, but it's not a tattoo of a toaster. That would just be plain weird.

I speak english almost fluently.

I haven't read the DaVinci Code.

Hydrocolloids.

A.I.M. screenname: heynicescrnname

My Interests

separating my interests with commas, playing my saxophone, cooking, reading, fitness, sriracha, wandering aimlessly around the city, spending absurd amounts of money at high end restaurants, profound discourse, meaningless palaver, watching movies, small shiny objects and assorted bits of string .... A little Kurt Rosenwinkel never hurt anybody.

I'd like to meet:

Someone willing to finance my lifestyle.

Music:

Just about everything.

Movies:

Lord of the Rings, Star Wars (the original trilogy), Office Space, Requiem for a Dream, Waking Life, Trainspotting, Airplane, any Monty Python, A Beautiful Mind, Thank You for Smoking, Sophie Scholl: The Final Days, The Last King of Scottland, The Descent, Sideways (not exclusively because of the wine content), Children of Men, Pan's Labarynth, Notes on a Scandal, Letters from Iwo Jima, The Lives of Others, First Snow

Television:

Sealab 2021, Metalocalypse, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, The Boondocks (noticing a theme here?), Frisky Dingo, Squidbillies, CSI (it was bound to happen sooner or later), The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Tom Goes to the Mayor, Kitchen Sessions with Charlie Trotter, Good Eats, Daria (how I miss that show) No Reservations (Anthony Bourdain), Drawn Together, Family Guy, Iron Chef, Star Trek TNG, anything on the Food Network, Space Ghost, CSpan (quorum calls are about as exciting as it gets)

Books:

The God Delusion, The Simarillion, Lord of the Rings, Infinite Jest, Ship of Fools, East of Eden, The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul, The whole "Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series, anything by Michael Moore, Kitchen Confidential, The End of Faith, A Cook's Tour, The Heart of Darkness, A Confederacy of Dunces, Specimen Days, anything by Kurt Vonnegut

Heroes:

Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Stephen Colbert, Keith Olbermann, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, David Foster Wallace, George Carlin, Kurt Vonnegut, Layne Staley. Lao Tzu, my folks

My Blog

Chicago food porn

Here they are. I'm just posting the pics for now, but I'll have captions up and everything in the next couple of days. For now, enjoy!BlackbirdPinenut gazpacho with soppressata, apricots, spring rad...
Posted by Evan on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 11:04:00 PST

Cash Cab

I've become hopelessly, utterly addicted to this show.  I've even memorized the cab's ID (1G12) in the (most likely futile) hope that I might encounter it somewhere on the streets of Manhattan.&...
Posted by Evan on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:45:00 PST

I <3 knee wounds

I've grown weary of easy mobility. I tire of being able to put my pants on without crying. Showers have become tediously agony-free. Going to bed without being terrified that I might accidentally...
Posted by Evan on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 12:09:00 PST

Anthony Bourdain takes on Food Network's current roster

Those of you who know me know that I'm a huge fan of Anthony Bourdain's writing.  Recently, he did a guest entry on Michael Ruhlman's blog.  In it, he tears apart the newly dumbed-down Food ...
Posted by Evan on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 01:15:00 PST

Pics from Charlie Trotter's

Here's some pics from my epic meal at Charlie Trotter's in Chicago.  I plan on posting more details about the trip, but for now, enjoy some food porn.Clockwise from bottom right:  Itali...
Posted by Evan on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 11:28:00 PST

Gone fishin'

Well folks, I'm off to Seattle for a week followed by a brief stay in Chicago.  I'll see you all in about ten days.
Posted by Evan on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 11:30:00 PST

Here's some holiday cheer

Well, not really.  But it'll make you cheerful.  Or insane. It'll make you cheerfully insane.http://www.larrycarlson.com/flashmovies_freefood.htm In other news, I just went and saw the Goo...
Posted by Evan on Mon, 25 Dec 2006 04:29:00 PST

January Seattle and Chicago trip, etc

Wooooooooooooooeeeeeeeeeee!  I'll be visiting Seattle for the first time in four years from January 4th until the 11th.  If anyone is going to be around during that time, let me know...I'll ...
Posted by Evan on Mon, 18 Dec 2006 12:06:00 PST

Voltron

Adult Swim is now showing Voltron.  How fucking cool is that?
Posted by Evan on Sun, 26 Nov 2006 11:59:00 PST

Happy Thanksgiving

A wonderful couple of days with family and friends, marred only by losing my wallet on the train. :sigh: The best part about it is, I just got my New York ID in the mail yesterday. Well, at least t...
Posted by Evan on Fri, 24 Nov 2006 08:43:00 PST