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The Walrus

ME! I'm still the same. Lost in the crowd, I'm always searching for the rain in a thunder cloud...

About Me

Are people born Wicked? Or do they have Wickedness thrust upon them? There are different branches of arithmetic--Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. People are locked in the cages that they bought, they look at my roaming and think that I am lost... If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs. And maybe your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery, isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance. Of how much you really want to do it. And you'll do it, despite rejection in the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods. And the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.

My Interests

Interests..... Traveling, slushees from 7-11, surfing, going to the zoo to look at the monkeys play, hanging out at a cafe all day in Paris, photography, developing my own film(I love the darkroom), kayaking, music festivals, rock climbing, roaming around in Half Price Books or Book People, biking, politics (it's good conversation for enemies and children), playing guitar, building robots for the revolution, walking the streets of Comporgeano Italy in the middle of a summer night, camping(real camping, NOT a cabin! come on people), psychology, adventures in the Sudan or memories of a scuffle in Siberia or even of that oft-quoted misadventure of that yak and llama in Nepal(ask me later and I will tell these stories of a mispent youth), art museums, looking at old maps of the world, Maria's Taco Express (best taco's in Austin!), reading in the park, looking at the stars from a mountain in Jasper (Canadian national park), road trips with friends without a destination, drinking a pint at a pub in London, and I'm training for a triathlon now. I want to get into fly fishing maybe(I saw it in the movie A River Runs Through It, so I tried it. Not as easy as the movies shows, yeah I sucked.).

I'd like to meet:

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Television:

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Books:

I LOVE BOOKS! I consume as many as I can on a daily basis. Some of my favorite include... Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and anything by Douglas Adams (a truely great adventurer), Water For Elephants, Walden, Merle's Door: Lessons From A Free-Thinking Dog, Heart of Darkness, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: a Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream, Wicked, The Samirillion, The Stranger, I Am Legend, 1984, anything by William Blake, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Gods And Generals, Into the Wild, The Alchemist, Through the Looking Glass, Herodotus- the History, Way of the Peaceful Warrior, Catch-22, Watership Down, God loves Man kills, Diary of a Madman(technically not a book but rather a short story), The Catcher in the Rye, The Vampire Lestat, The Bounty Trilogy (Mutiny on the Bounty, Men Against the Sea, Pitcairn's Islands), and the classic Great Expectations (I love reading this book over and over). Currently I am reading The White Goddess:a Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth, Of Human Bondage, and a book about Soups.

Heroes:

My trusty towel, NEVER LEAVE HOME WITHOUT IT!

My Blog

Cats in Heat: A Welcome Home...

Streets that were born in the eyes of a boy,Some mature while others grow old.Some die and others are born from fresh stone.Out for a morning run, the boy looks at his old backyard.Standing on the dow...
Posted by The Walrus on Sat, 24 Mar 2007 02:58:00 PST

A chautauqua suited for a walrus and a carpenter...

I was in the darkroom about a week ago developing some pictures from a recent kayak trip on the Colorado River and a song came on the radio which seemed to professing the great joy it would be to unde...
Posted by The Walrus on Sun, 21 Jan 2007 10:53:00 PST

JOURNAL ENTRY

A watchman of the night can dream..........Looking for laughter and joyWill lead for the search of beautyfrom the stars high above a riverto the winds reaches of a mesa.Turning to the provocations of ...
Posted by The Walrus on Fri, 07 Apr 2006 06:38:00 PST