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About Me

Usually friendly. An obsessively serious runner. If not at my job, or eating or sleeping, I am probably running. I've run seven marathons, including Boston. I've run two "sub3" marathons, the last one at 2:57:30. I have now completed three 50-mile ultramarathons, two of them in under seven hours. I came in 4th place overall in the 2007 Lakefront 50/50. It sounds so sappy, but I just love being outdoors SO much, it's hard for me to go back indoors at times. Seriously.I am a commercial artist by trade, (illustrator/retoucher/3D) for a healthcare marketing agency. Mostly I work on a lot of ads for moisturizers and anesthetics. I attended school as a photography and 3d graphics major. I enjoy reading artist monographs and biographies. I would have been as happy if I was an art history major, but back in school I was certain I'd become a fashion photographer. I know. Duh...Musically, I appreciate various mixtures of jazz, soul and electronica , that's what I listen to most often. I also enjoy classic rock, folk, Japanese pop and Swedish pop music and soundtracks. I've got a Rhodes piano to infuse that nice mellow 70's pop sound into the music I write and record... I also write poetry and short stories that few will ever see. I seldom have time for television, (for serious), but I just got cable, so hopefully I stick to that history channel, right?! I listen to (and watch) a heck of a lot of NPR/PRI/BBC news. I read the Economist, but sometimes I like to look at the pictures too.I'm okay at Photoshop.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Runners, Swedes, healthy eaters, people who sleep. People who are not crass or insincere to a boring degree. Vegetarians. Sweet people. Lovely people. Artists. Artists who are athletic. Nerds, lanky skinny nerds. Total dorks who run and eat healthy. People who are bohemian, but not to the extent that they don't bathe. Crafty thrifty folks with runaway creativity. Creative lanky nerds who wear glasses. Bookish friendly thrifty bohemian people with nice dispositions. People who read and write. Poets. Woodworkers. People who are fed up with our government . People who exude that cool vibe and are more or less confident. People who hug. People who often express their appreciation for other people and things. Expressive people. Redundant fools. Redundant fools. Lovers. All-American people. People who speed pack. People who love the outdoors. Ex-members of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.Also on Friendster: http://www.friendster.com/hagstrom

My Blog

Benevolent Order of Giants

The benevolent order of fairieswho cultivate the prariesthey transport tartsstacked up in cartsand top them off with cherriesThe benevolent order of midgetswho manufacture widgetsthey've paid their du...
Posted by on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 08:32:00 GMT

Red

while I slumber storms roll indreams of you will soon beginfalling rains could never quenchthe fires burning deep withinwhile I'm curled up at nightseeing you is such delightfloating up on vivid huesI...
Posted by on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 08:30:00 GMT

Resigned

hibernating almost nightlyhalfway dozing in a chairconsternating so contritelyin repose and unawareyet a latent thought's arrivalstirs comportment of the mindwhets the blatant sot's revivalfor import ...
Posted by on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 08:29:00 GMT

The Crepuscular Scholars

The grogshop clung to the side of summer hillWe wore our emotions almost like crownsMysterious events left you tongue-tiedGoing to battle in an evening gownThe best thieves went undetectedThe crepuscu...
Posted by on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 08:27:00 GMT

The Great Outdoors

The poem of the laundry detergent foamto the roma occupied drywall stall,a basement utility gypsy homeis a cement and hundred-watt lightbulb hall.Springtime freshness shall fill the roomfrom the bottl...
Posted by on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 08:27:00 GMT

Anarchy-tecture

Frank Lloyd Wright was such a wangall his dwellings overhangand his structures seem so flatas if designing for a ratand rest assured he had his waysof trapping you inside a mazeMies Von Der Rohe was n...
Posted by on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 08:26:00 GMT

Without A Hue

Chicago makes me misty too,Thinking what the people do,Running-walking-working thru,Playing-prodding-poking you.Clouds of heat exhaust and dust,Rods of rebar caked with rust,Building sand is such a mu...
Posted by on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 08:25:00 GMT

Snejanka

Tiny blanket on Snejankastrolling past the shepherd herdingorder TV tower sankastruggle with Cyrillic wordingWith the wind through treetops blowingsee a river not discerningwhich direction waters flow...
Posted by on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 08:23:00 GMT

Healthy Animus

All swollen with audaciousnesshe knows she's not a fan of thishe's sullen to her graciousnessshe's acting so magnanimousThe mind is plenitudinousher thoughts became so prurientwhen reeling from the ru...
Posted by on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 08:22:00 GMT

Little Fire

When stepping from the boat to dockyour planted leg may drift a bit,be careful as the boat may rockas you shift all your weight from it-And though you've made it from the boatthat's not the same thing...
Posted by on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 08:21:00 GMT