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Ben

Just livin the Minnesota Nice Life

About Me

New West Coast transplant. I just arrived from NYC this past year with my stupendous wife Cara. I teach high school social studies and have the nerdy credentials to prove it. Originally from Minnesota and lovin everything Minnesotan from the state fair to the gophers to the Boundary Waters and the Minneapolis Lakes. My skills include excellent music listening skills...headphones have served me well. I have a mediocre jump shot and can run down stairs at incredible speed. I know far too much about the civil rights movement and have the uncanny ability to do absolutely nothing for extended periods of time while actually trying to do something. Also I apologize for lots of things that I have no control over. Its a problem.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

just a good place to contact friends and fam

Music:

Pretty much everything except for country...some good old Roots, Beastie, Pharcyde, or Jurassic Five...or chill with Ben Harper, Dave Matthews, Jack Johnson, Donovan Frankenreiter, Xavier Rudd or others...I have spent much of the past decade walking around with big ole headphones on so pretty much anything goes.

Movies:

good classic action flicks: die hard, young guns, braveheart...the best trilogies ever: lord of teh rings, indiana jones, back to the future...stupid comedies: adam sandler (all especially billy madison), wedding crashers...the cheesy all time drama classics: shawshank redemption, good will hunting, and many others...also the best sports movies ever: rudy, field of dreams, diggstown...

Television:

Lost, 24, West Wing, Amazing Race, Survivor, Greys Ananomy, Love Monkey, Numbers, CSI, Extremem Makeover Home Edition, 4400, Prison Break, SDurface, The Office, That 70s Show, Daily Show, Colbert Report, Friday Night Lights, Heroes....ok now i just sound lazy

Books:

goodnight moon and Roots, amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay, da vinci code.

Heroes:

Dad, Mom, Cara, Mim, Ponch from CHiPS, Al Newman