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About Me

I'm from Iowa, but I'm not proud of that fact. I wish I were a Canadian. Or a Briton; from a very young age I've been fixated on Britain. I blame sitcoms. I miss thunderstorms, but not much else about Iowa (except certain lovely people who know who they are). I became a mathematician basically out of laziness, as I didn't feel like getting a real job. Hopefully I'll never have to get one. They don't sound like much fun. Though maybe math doesn't sound like much fun to you; who knows? It takes all sorts, as the saying goes. I won't judge you. Or if I do, I'll do it very quietly and keep it to myself. I'm a bit of an ivory tower type; I'm not what you'd call sporty at all, though I like a good walk and I can climb slippery coastal rocks like nobody's business. I get along well with seals. I am what you'd call an effete intellectual. I am as gay as a big faggy goose, but I warn you: I'm not big on divas and I don't spend much time on my hair.

My Interests

Science fiction. Renaissance history, Giordano Bruno in particular. Sunsets. Thunderstorms, and that lovely fresh growing smell afterwards. England. Latin, especially Catullus and Juvenal. Walks, hikes, mountains, oceans, dramatic landscapes. Theatre. Impressionism. David Lynch. My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult. Guinness. How we construct the illusion of meaning in our lives. Electronic music and good solid rock. Science! I've always wanted to be a writer but never had the talent.

I'd like to meet:

I'd like to meet rational human beings curious about the world they live in, willing and able to say what they think, with some kind of motivating passion in life. Especially gay male rational human beings with pretty eyes who are kind to small animals.

Music:

Spoon, Slowdive, My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, Notwist, My Bloody Valentine, David Bowie, Lou Reed, Radiohead, Brian Eno, Boards of Canada, Manitoba, Daft Punk, Luke Vibert, Decemberists, Pink Floyd, Queen, Scissor Sisters, Air, Violent Femmes, Magnetic Fields

Movies:

Brazil, Mulholland Drive, Brokeback Mountain, Jacob's Ladder, X-Men, Battle Royale, Nowhere, The Godfather, My Own Private Idaho, Donnie Darko

Television:

The League of Gentlemen, Little Britain, The Day Today, Brasseye, Doctor Who, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Books:

Little Big, Lord Byron's Novel, Valis, The Idiot, Dead Souls, The Book of the New Sun, Ã†gypt, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, On Wings of Song, The Motion of Light in Water

My Blog

America's Finest News Source

At its best, The Onion is truly the funhouse mirror in whose twisted reflections we see into the darkest recesses of the human soul. A couple of examples...Skeptic Pitied:FAYETTEVILLE, ARCraig ...
Posted by Lukers on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 01:54:00 PST

One day...

I have decided that the title of my eventual autobiography is going to be One Man's Junk...You can try to pre-order a copy now, but it may not be released for another few decades....
Posted by Lukers on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 04:23:00 PST

Jerry Falwell's Greatest Hits

Jerry Falwell is no longer of this Earth. He wasn't Raptured away into the arms of his petty, spiteful, bitchy God, however, which I'm sure would have come as a great disappointment to him were ...
Posted by Lukers on Wed, 16 May 2007 07:13:00 PST

All About My Family

The story of a man who was eaten by clams.
Posted by Lukers on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 06:19:00 PST

Baby Got Back

...In the style of Gilbert and Sullivan....Elsewhere, since Myspace doesn't seem to want to link to the site directly. Hmm. Hmmmmmmmmmmmm....
Posted by Lukers on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 10:34:00 PST

Happy Easter

Somebody thinks they found Jesus Christ a-mouldering in his tomb, uncovered in 1980 beneath a Jerusalem apartment building.A Canadian documentary filmmaker will reveal at a news conference Monday that...
Posted by Lukers on Sun, 25 Feb 2007 03:39:00 PST

Charlie the Unicorn

They're going on an adventure... ...
Posted by Lukers on Sun, 25 Feb 2007 01:16:00 PST

XKCD

http://xkcd.com/c205.htmlOne of the best comic strips ever? Or the best? It's either-or here, people. Our decision tree is very binary.
Posted by Lukers on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 06:52:00 PST

Human League, Baby

You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar When I met you I picked you out, I shook you up, and turned you around Turned you into someone new Now five years later on you've got the world at yo...
Posted by Lukers on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:40:00 PST

Pigeon-slaughter: Pro and Con

The town of Kingston (in Surrey, it would appear, in the UK) is employing a marksman to cull its expanding pigeon population. The local population has much to say about this. A repre...
Posted by Lukers on Sun, 17 Dec 2006 07:26:00 PST