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David

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About Me

I'm like 12% autistic. I'm a college drop-out on the way back to school. Born and raised in the Elm City, built my adult life in Oaktown, now I'm back East. I'm a brand-new uncle. I know a lot of different stuff (you want me on your team in Trivial Pursuit). I sometimes think too much. I'm comfortable with contradiction. I love cigarettes and black coffee. I quit cigarettes and coffee. (UPDATE: back on coffee in a serious way. Thanks, college.) I wouldn't characterize the US government as democratic. I do think that this country is beautiful, obscene, tragic and absurd. I like spades and hearts and dominos and poker and chess and scrabble and boggle and shit like that. I'm a Gawker Media geek. I think you'll find you like me.

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My Interests

Politics, trying to save the world (not by myself), soccer, reading, joy, running, swimming, biking (or "cycling" if you want to be a snob about it), not using so much petroleum, magazines

Music:

Fela Kuti, Mac Dre, Bob Dylan

Movies:

Grizzly Man, American Splendor, The 40 Year Old Virgin, Casino, Goodfellas, Godfather I and II, Delicatessan, City of Lost Children, Spirited Away, Full Metal Jacket, Dr. Strangelove, Half Baked, The Professional, Crouching Tiger/Hidden Dragon, Hate

Television:

Jeopardy, Arrested Development, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Office (BBC)

Books:

Blankets, Catch-22, The Fire Next Time, Assata, The God of Small Things, 1984, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72, The Stone Raft, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Eichmann in Jerusalem

Heroes:

Kind of uncomfortable with "hero" label, but I admire: Vo Ngyun Giap, James Baldwin, George Orwell, MLK, Jr., El Hajj Malik Shabazz, Ghandi, David Cross, Lewis Lapham, Jonathan Lethem, Ichiro, Wanda Sykes, Hannah Arendt