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Jacob

There hasn't been anything this over the top since that moon shot incident at the dairy.

About Me

I am a liberal caucasoid male Homo sapiens living as a Medievalist and Grad Student in Fayetteville, Arkansas. I was born and to some extent raised in Little Rock, Arkansas, though I moved to Fayetteville a billion years ago and have now made it something like a home. I am currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at the University of Arkansas, where I am studying medieval literature, and will probably graduate sometime between AD 2010-2011, at which point I will certainly be poor. One day, if they would let me, I would like to be the Master of Jesus (thank you, Lynda Coon), though that's highly unlikely, not being a) English, b) a member of the Cambridge University system, or c) anywhere near on the right track for that.
My official biographer wrote the following:
Jacob Lewis is known round the world to connoisseurs of art, religion, philosophy, literature and madness as a prodigy and a true sophomoros. He was born at midnight on a riverboat between six states. He was named for a little-known 3rd-century eight-foot-tall, dog-headed Christian martyr. He claims to be part bear on his father's side, and part wild alligator on his mother's. Says he: "I can wade the Mississippi, leap the Ohio, ride upon a streak of lightning, and whup my weight in wildcats."

My Interests

reading, music, writing, having a life in general (future goal), education, nature, and so on

I'd like to meet:

Jesus
I imagine the meeting would be quite awkward. He'd say something in Aramaic, I'd mangle a few things in Attic Greek, he'd call me the Latin word for someone who buggers donkeys, I'd give him a Vulgate. Just like old times.

William Blake
He's a visionary genius, and a helluva trip. Then, once I'd met him, I could take him to the Pacific Northwest and send him off in a canoe to the land of the dead.

William Quinn
Technically he's my dissertation director, but I haven't seen him in a while. Is he still alive? Did Cambridge swallow him whole?

Artemus Gordon
We could drink and wonder what it is that Jim West does to get all those women. Then we would wonder if it could be distilled into a bomb. Ah, Jim, the boards! The roar of the crowd!

Whichever of My Ancestors Wrote Music for Kaiser Wilhelm's Marching Band
My family's only brush with fame. Well, that, and inventing calculus. Stupid Isaac Newton always stealin' from me.

That Girl down the Street
She's totally hot. I hear she keeps horses. Where she keeps them I'll never know.

Myself
I think I'm an all right guy. Or was that Todd Snyder?

Music:

Most of it.

Movies:

Buckaroo Banzai, Scotland PA, Taymor Titus, Napoleon Dynamite, Sideways, Lonesome Dove, Blazing Saddles, History of the World Part I (and other dad movies), Casablanca, The Godfather I and II, The Silencers (Matt Helm), The Conversation, The Shadow of the Vampire, and a whole lot more.

Television:

Don't own one, don't want one, don't need one.If it's important for me to watch, I'll netflix it.

Books:

All of them. Books are good.

Heroes:

My heroes have always been cowb-- wait, that's a Willie Nelson song.

My own heroes include Morgan Hetrick, Grizz Hayhurst, Don Lewis, Utah Phillips, Dick Feynman, The Duke, and Robert Heinlein; along with Marcus Aurelius and the Hávamál, these men form the core of my philosophical views (in what proportion depends on how I'm feeling at the time). I haven't really thought about female heroes, though I expect Ana and Mom would be in the list.