markjosephperry - ProfilesArchive

About Me

umm...practical first. i hold a BFA in dramaturgy from DePaul University. i just started law school. i love being outside...i love to walk...i laugh a lot...i do outlandish things....i ran with the bulls...i participated in a political protest (read: riot) in Barcelona...i sprained my knee getting out of bed...i've been working on a quilt for 4 years...i find inappropriate things funny...i was in Paris for Bastille Day...i have been known to have drinks poured on me in bars...i once received a quasi-break-up at Roscoes with a martini in the face and a view of a sassy backside making a grand exit...i love to tell stories...or hear them...i write a lot...i read a lot...frequently literature, just as frequently nonfiction, just as frequently complete crap...i start law school in August...i was a finalist in the Windy City Gay Idol competition...twice...i have been attacked by squirrels twice and have a deeply seated fear of rain, snakes, and squirrels i mistake for snakes.......

My Interests

physics, reading, travel, writing, architecture, walking, music, drinking, (music + drinking = karaoke), religious debate, telling stories, conversations about anything really, beach volleyball is fun....I've recently taken to logic games.

I'd like to meet:

i'll meet just about anybody. and do just about anything. i'd like to meet people that can have a fun time without having to be at an upscale lounge. but can handle themselves when they are. i like to meet people who laugh at life while they kick its ass just because it's there. i like to meet people who'll tip well because the waiter's having a bad day. or an exceptionally good one. i like to meet people who say what's on their mind, mean it, and enrich my life with what they've said everytime they have something to say. people who can leap over bars, make me martinis, and leap back without spilling a drop. kindness is good. nerdiness is great. intelligence is essential. intellectualism is not.

Music:

right now in my CD case are The Charlie Daniels Band, Jack Johnson, Smashing Pumpkins, Vivaldi, Scissor Sisters, Vanilla Ice, Train, Coldplay, Righteous Brothers, Maroon 5, some old CDs of stuff I was in, John Mayer, Pippin, The Top Gun Soundtrack, Ben Folds, Blue Man Group, Japanese folk music, Dave Matthews' Band...

Movies:

most recently Finding Neverland. Also, Team America: World Police, Hero, Whale Rider, Finding Nemo, The Mahabaratta, okay...Chicago and Moulin Rouge. Also, Austin Powerses, Pirates of the Carribean, Adaptation, Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (the original one), BIG, and of course, The Dead Poets Society.

Television:

Six Feet Under, Survivor, Simpsons, Daily Show, Will and Grace, your standard fare...don't so much watch TV. Cable just went away...

Books:

i just finished re-reading the 6 Harry Potters. and i'm kind of obsesed. also, To Kill a Mockingbird, The DiVinci Code, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, The BFG, King Lear, Atlas Shrugged, House on Pooh Corner, Macbeth, The Velveteen Rabbit, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Nicholas Nickleby, House of Leaves, Atlas Shrugged, Polaroid Stories, anything by Shakespeare, Dickens, Dahl, Seuss...

Heroes:

Jesus and Helen Keller. not so much the stories you learned when you were younger, but the scary, earth-shattering, left-wing, political upheaval each one advocated. also, Jesus was a hunchback.

My Blog

regarding the felony of loitering with intent to be black, 1953

McQuirter v. State36 Ala.App. 707, 63 So.2d 388Ala.App. 1953February 17, 1953 (Approx. 3 pages) Westlaw Summary: Defendant was convicted in Circuit Court, Escambia County, F. W. Hare, J., of an attemp...
Posted by markjosephperry on Sun, 21 Oct 2007 06:50:00 PST

On her Gay Son: Sharon Underwood

This editorial is from Sunday's Concord Monitor. Sunday, April 30, 2000 By SHARON UNDERWOOD As the mother of a gay son, I've seen firsthand how cruel and misguided people can be. Many letters have ...
Posted by markjosephperry on Sat, 08 Sep 2007 01:11:00 PST

fount text: on illusion

This assignment, it's something like a school assignment where you try to figure out what the teacher really has in mind. And you finally decide to go ahead anyway on your own and it's only a couple o...
Posted by markjosephperry on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 08:23:00 PST

found text: the blowjob follies

The problem with oral sex is that it's like writing. When done right, it's amazing, but there are just so many ways it can go wrong, and when it goes wrong, it's just not worth it. These are s...
Posted by markjosephperry on Fri, 22 Dec 2006 12:01:00 PST

found text: Inter-Tribal Times

NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN TRADITIONAL CODE OF ETHICS...From "Inter-Tribal Times" Oct 19941. Each morning upon rising, and each evening before sleeping, give thanks for the life within you and for all lif...
Posted by markjosephperry on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 01:57:00 PST

found text: kermit the frog

It's not that easy bein' green Having to spend each day the color of the leaves When I think it could be nicer being red or yellow or gold Or something much more colorful like that It's not easy bein'...
Posted by markjosephperry on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 03:39:00 PST

found text: Margery Williams

The Skin Horse had lived longer in the nursery than any of the others. He was so old that his brown coat was bald in patches and showed the seams underneath, and most of te hairs in his tail had been ...
Posted by markjosephperry on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 02:26:00 PST

Found Text: A.A. Milne

"Where are we going?" said Pooh, hurrying after him, and wondering whether it was to be an Explore or a What-shall-I-do-about-you-know-what."Nowhere," said Christopher Robin.So they began going there,...
Posted by markjosephperry on Mon, 27 Nov 2006 05:02:00 PST

Found Text: j.m. barrie

PrologueHave you ever seen a map of a person's mind? Doctors sometimes draw maps of other parts of you, but catch them trying to draw a map of a child's mind, which is not only confused, but keeps goi...
Posted by markjosephperry on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 04:53:00 PST

Found Text: Rosebud, Issue 26

The Scent, by Christopher MeeksA man smelled something odd nearby. The odor was sharp, worse than a dead fish slithering with maggots. No matter which way he turned, and wherever he went, the scent fo...
Posted by markjosephperry on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 05:38:00 PST