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Ghost

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About Me

That's complicated.

My Interests

alphabetizing my interests, architecture, bicycles, camping, carpentry, cars, climbing, comfortable shoes, cooking, craps, design, dominoes, edible flowers, fresh produce, gentrification, hiking, history, insects, lemonade, mischief, music, naps, nature, numbers, philosophy, poker, religion, sarcasm, scotch, scrabble, tea, tequila, travel, trees, urban renewal, voluntary human extinction, water

I'd like to meet:

Independent and positive people. Anybody with good English and something to say. Whores, gamblers, infidels, drug users, and people who use foul language. Thinkers. Travelers. People who break rules or boundaries. Anyone who can teach me something new. Non-smokers.

Music:

Without going all MySpace and listing 19 million bands...I like 90's alternative rock, industrial, UK breakbeats, UK garage ("garriage"), downtempo, hip-hop that isn't primarily about teeth and/or rims, drum&bass, house music, classic rock, ambient, classical (rarely but sometimes). I'm discovering bluegrass.
I hate Dave Matthews.

Movies:

I've seen them. They're alright. Some of my favorites are Seven, The Matrix, What Dreams may Come, Labyrinth, Transformers, The Goonies, Princess Mononoke, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Ninja Scroll, Natural Born Killers, Fight Club, Medicine Man, maybe I'll add more when I think of them.

Television:

Addicted to HBO on-demand. The Wire, Deadwood, Rome, Entourage and The Sopranos... Otherwise I'm probably watching HGTV or Food Network because I am domestic like that. Now I'm stuck to Lost also.

Books:

Seems like I only read online nowadays. Some reads I have enjoyed are Culture Jam by Kalle Lasn, Hyperspace by Michio Kaku, Exo-Psychology by Timothy Leary, The Cosmic Game by Stanislav Grof. I don't like much fiction but Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll is probably my favorite. Most of my books are more reference-type stuff like Audubon field guides and Cookbooks.

Heroes:

I'm really more of a villain-lover myself.

My Blog

Planes, trains and automobiles

"Are you coming or going?" It's an easy enough question to answer when I'm being asked by a middle-aged saleswoman next to me at the bar in Max & Erma's inside the James M. Cox Dayton Internationa...
Posted by Ghost on Sun, 28 Oct 2007 10:05:00 PST

Orogenous zones

I regret not being the first person to ever make use of that pun. Anyway&Here I am again, at the epicenter of what was once the supercontinent Pangaea. Like its predecessors, the formation of Pangaea ...
Posted by Ghost on Sun, 28 Oct 2007 09:22:00 PST

The magic squirrel

This evening I was having a much-needed nap, when a sound awoke me that was coming from inside the room somewhere. I looked up and there was this squirrel scrambling around in the room. The screens on...
Posted by Ghost on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 05:23:00 PST

::UPDATED:: One tough tomato

Solanum lycopersicum. It's quite ubiquitous here in Ohio but I can't say that I've ever seen it growing in these sorts of conditions.This is not my garden.Back in july this little tomato plant started...
Posted by Ghost on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 05:47:00 PST

If you cant stand the heat...

Get the fuck out the 'Nati.Today was but one in a string of record-breaking high temperatures, and while I don't think we've actually hit the century mark yet this year, the last two weeks have been c...
Posted by Ghost on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 05:49:00 PST

Blueberry parfait

The forgotten art of the parfait. Perhaps it's just too simple to survive, but I've always loved it, and I'm going to keep rocking it until it comes back into style.Right now the local blueberry crop ...
Posted by Ghost on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 08:07:00 PST

I am Jack's theta waves

Yesterday I had a Tyler Durden experience. I awoke to utter shock at my surroundings, thinking instead that I should have been someplace else, and becoming immediately concerned about the dangerous so...
Posted by Ghost on Wed, 27 Jun 2007 04:41:00 PST

XXIX

It's such a cliché age to be. Next year at this time I won't be "young" anymore, so I guess it's time to make "carpe annum" my mantra for the next 366 days. I need to run completely wild for now becau...
Posted by Ghost on Fri, 08 Jun 2007 09:51:00 PST

Conditioned air

It's just an excuse to stay indoors really, which is the last thing I need. My plan this summer was to hold out on running the air conditioning for as long as I could, but with may coming to a close a...
Posted by Ghost on Thu, 31 May 2007 08:11:00 PST

Whiteside Mountain

Whiteside Mountain in North Carolina is believed by many geologists to be the oldest mountain on the face of the Earth. This mountain is probably the most beautiful thing I have seen in my waking life...
Posted by Ghost on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 12:20:00 PST