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About Me

!-Custom OnLine Now Icon !-Solution Source: MySpace Code -! !-Solution Optimized for 80x20 icon. You WILL need to adjust size, clip and margin values for other icon sizes-! ! END code for Custom online Now Icon ! Raised in Cincinnati, OH taught in the fundamental arts of basketball, tennis, soccer, and baseball, given a Casio for Christmas around 1988. Left home for a while, attended The University of Montana - MIssoula for anthropology, spent a lot of time backpacking, snowboarding, swimming, and mountain biking in Montana and Idaho. Moved to California to study Permaculture, then moved to the Sisskiyou Mountains in SW Oregon. Now live in Covington, KY, occupation: baker.
Big shout to Whitefish kids, Ft. Bragg homies, Williams heads, Portland players, and Oaktown street charectars (that includes Red- I vow not to abandon you, though I fear every day I've done just that...). Shouts to my peoples in Poland, Bulgaria, France, Romania, Hawaii, NYC, Blackfeet and Lakota Nations, and beyond..

My Interests

Cooking, visiting w/ friends, chilling out, watchin movies, microbrew beer, organic gardening, other stuff too; random, personal stuff. Insomnia

I'd like to meet:

nice people. .. View Album Get your own

Music:

Ambient, House, Jazz, Breaks, Soul, pretty much anything really. Really like traditional world music from places such as Ghana, Cuba, Mali, Japan, etc.

Movies:

Can't get enough...

Television:

Take it or leave it

Books:

elevate the mind.

Heroes:

Here is one of my personal heroes: Dimpho Siphoro
I met Dimpho in northern California in 2004. She is working to create more opportunities for the youth in her native Soweto, S. Africa, by means of implementing community gardens, renewable energy, and other positive influences. You can learn more about Dimpho and her visit to California here: One Young Woman on a Difficult Mission: Dimpho Siphoro

My Blog

been into a good book lately...

Recently consumed the book "Between a Rock and a Hard Place" which is the autobiography of a hiker who got trapped by a boulder in Utah in 2002 and had to amputate his own arm after being stuck ...
Posted by Da Rat on Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:50:00 PST

Why I MySpace

I was trying to explain to a friend the other day why I think MySpace and similar sights like BlackPlanet, Face Book, Etc are so cool. A lot of people get weirded out by MySpace for many reasons; but ...
Posted by Da Rat on Wed, 06 Aug 2008 05:41:00 PST

Film from the 90’s vault: "Night On Earth"

I recently re-watched this classic 1991 film which portrays five different cab rides in five different cities at the same time all around the world in sequential order. It wasn't an extremely popular ...
Posted by Da Rat on Sun, 03 Aug 2008 05:32:00 PST

"Ignore-ance"

As a "-un-" older person here on MySpace I must comment on something that I myself have been "-un-" guilty of in the past, ignoring people on-line and elsewhere I didn't want to talk to or whatever. ...
Posted by Da Rat on Tue, 15 Jul 2008 03:06:00 PST

One badass zombie movie

Resident Evil : ExtinctionOkay, who doesn't like watching this girl kill zombies?? I thought this movie was awexome, check it out. ...
Posted by Da Rat on Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:05:00 PST