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I Blog . I write stories like this one and this one and this one and this one and this one and some other ones.
TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name: David J. Schwartz
Birthday: September 22, 1970
Birthplace: St. Paul, Minnesota
Current Location: Chicago, Illinois
Eye Color: Blue/Green
Hair Color: Dark Blonde
Height: 5' 11"
Right Handed or Left Handed: Right
Your Heritage: Norwegian/German/Irish/Mutt
The Shoes You Wore Today: Grinders
Your Weakness: Spaceships
Your Fears: Enclosed Spaces
Your Perfect Pizza: Broccoli and Mushroom - Deep Dish!
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: Sell my first novel
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: BRB
Thoughts First Waking Up: Um. More sleep?
Your Best Physical Feature: You tell me
Your Bedtime: Late
Your Most Missed Memory: American Politics. Nixon to Clinton. Lose it.
Pepsi or Coke: Nope.
MacDonalds or Burger King: Nuh-uh.
Single or Group Dates: What's a date?
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: Hot tea.
Chocolate or Vanilla: Surprise me.
Cappuccino or Coffee: Yuck!
Do you Smoke: No
Do you Swear: Yes
Do you Sing: Badly
Do you Shower Daily: Yes, except on the days when I don't.
Have you Been in Love: Yes
Do you want to go to College: Been there. Done that.
Do you believe in yourself: Yes, but not in you. Solipsism isn't just a philosophy. It's a lifestyle.
Do you get Motion Sickness: Only in cases of turbulence or Tilt-a-Whirls.
Do you think you are Attractive: Why? Are you saying I'm not? It's the hair, isn't it? Oh god. No one will ever love me . . .
Are you a Health Freak: Not so much.
Do you get along with your Parents: Yes
Do you like Thunderstorms: That night I ran naked into the darkness with the lightning flashing above me and the warm rain steamed off my skin and I was trying to find you but you were gone and when I woke up the ships had all sunk in the storm, their masts poking up out of the harbor like reeds out of a pond but the bodies of the drowned were never found, so I know that you are still alive somewhere.
Do you play an Instrument: Badly
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: Yes
In the past month have you Smoked: No
In the past month have you been on Drugs: No
In the past month have you gone on a Date: No
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: Yikes!
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: No
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: Sadly, no.
In the past month have you been on Stage: No
In the past month have you been Dumped: No
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: No
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: Ideas
Ever been Drunk: Yes
Ever been called a Tease: No
Ever been Beaten up: Not physically
Ever Shoplifted: Not much
How do you want to Die: Never, thanks.
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: Smarter
What country would you most like to Visit: Kenya
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: Open
Favourite Hair Color: Cerulean
Short or Long Hair: Short
Height: Green
Weight: Gravity
Best Clothing Style: Naked
Number of Drugs I have taken: Didn't count
Number of CDs I own: Can't count
Number of Piercings: Final countdown
Number of Tattoos: Just the Count (from Sesame Street)
Number of things in my Past I Regret: Too many to count
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My Interests

Talking, Drinking wine, Reading, Writing, Hiking, Dogs, Traveling, Laughing, Revolutions, Interstellar Fugitive Lifestyles, Ruins, Myths, Spaceships, Prisons, Caves, Elephants

I'd like to meet:

You.

Music:

Beck, Johnny Cash, the Returnables, Caetano Veloso, Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Velocity Girl, Violent Femmes, Wilco, Old 97s, the Replacements, Sarah Harmer, the Embarrassment, Poster Children, Bluegrass, Bloodshot Records, Country Music, the New Pornographers, David Bowie, Tom Waits, the Police, R.E.M., the Cure, De La Soul, Busta Rhymes, Missy Elliott, Prince, Talking Heads, the Ramones, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Hayes Carll, Jimmie Rodgers, Roger Miller, Aimee Mann, Funkadelic, Hank Williams, Jimmy Martin, Funk, Kelly Hogan, Neko Case, Mucca Pazza, the Mekons, Dance Hall Crashers, Robbie Fulks, Split Lip Rayfield, Samba, Tom Petty

Movies:

Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, Big Trouble in Little China, Escape from New York, Say Anything, The Big Lebowski, The Hudsucker Proxy, Fargo, Serenity, The Godfather, The 40 Year-Old Virgin, Miller's Crossing, Raising Arizona, Blood Simple, Adaptation, Ghostbusters, Lost in Translation, Pirates of the Caribbean, Walk the Line, Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, There's Something About Mary, His Girl Friday, A Place in the Sun, From Here to Eternity, Shadow of a Doubt, Out of the Past, Kiss Me Deadly, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, The Killer, Hard Boiled, God of Gamblers, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Swordsman II, Fon Sai Yuk, Once Upon a Time in China, Fists of Fury, Enter the Dragon, Rumble in the Bronx, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Fourth Dimension, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, A Fistfull of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Wild Bunch, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, All About My Mother, Belle Epoque, L.A. Confidential, The Princess Bride, Unforgiven

Television:

Farscape, Veronica Mars, The Amazing Race, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, Deadwood, Arrested Development, Dragnet, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Firefly, Homicide: Life on the Street, Oz, Greg the Bunny, Fawlty Towers, Coupling, The Office, Twin Peaks, Carnivale

Books:

One Hundred Years of Solitude, Kelly Link, Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, Hopscotch, Borges, Angela Carter, Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Pynchon, William Faulkner, Don Quixote, Mark Twain, Jeff Ford, Doug Lain, Carol Emshwiller, James Tiptree Jr., Isak Dinesen, Knut Hamsun, Warren Ellis, Dickens, Tolstoy, Tim Powers, Harry Potter, Lemony Snicket, Cecil Castellucci, Scott Westerfeld, Justine Larbalestier, Holly Black, Tolkien, Mervyn Peake, Theodore Sturgeon, Cordwainer Smith, Alfred Bester, Bradbury, Terry Bisson, J.D. Salinger, Bruce Jay Friedman, Thomas Heller, Ring Lardner, Karen Joy Fowler, Nicola Griffith, Gloria Naylor, Catch-22, Snorri Sturluson, Homer, Roddy Doyle, Irvine Welsh, Toni Morrison, William Faulkner

Heroes:

Bruce Lee, Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, Joss Whedon, the Coen Brothers, Torii Hunter, Kurt Vonnegut, Mark Twain, George Saunders, Paul Wellstone

My Blog

The Biggest News

So, I've checked with all concerned about whether it's OK to go ahead and announce this, and even though I'm afraid that talking about it out loud like this will just make the whole thing evaporate, I...
Posted by Dave on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 09:11:00 PST

"The Water-Poet and the Four Seasons"

Hello Internauts.  Just blogging to let y'all know that my story The Water-Poet and the Four Seasons has just gone live at Strange Horizons.  Give it a read!  If you like it, you might ...
Posted by Dave on Mon, 01 May 2006 06:26:00 PST

Beware My Hip

My first post on Myspace should probably be something profound and edgy that lets everyone know how hip and witty I am. Probably it should be. Instead, I give you baby pandas....
Posted by Dave on Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:08:00 PST