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Daniel

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

I been around the east coast, and now I'm here with my wife, four guinea pigs, and crazy cat. I'm nicer than I seem, and handier than I feel.

My Interests

Contemporary poetry, French cinema, Middle Earth, media studies, popular culture, boobies, ape-men, fashion, really good cabernet, the woods, solitude.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who is interesting and interested. If you’re talented and generally curious, you fit the bill.

Music:

U2, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Johnny Cash, Pearl Jam, Radiohead, Sam Phillips, Neil Young, Counting Crows, Sigur Ros

Movies:

Waking Life, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Primer, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Moulin Rouge, William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet, The Beat that My Heart Skipped, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Fugitive, anything not by Quentin Tarantino

Television:

Hardball with Chris Matthews, The Daily Show, The Simpsons, Meet the Press, The Newshour with Jim Lehrer

Books:

A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean, Rabbit Run by John Updike, Ode to the Cold War by Dick Allen, Beowulf, The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson, The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett, Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene, Tao Te Ching trans. Stephen Mitchell, the Qur'an, and who could forget the Tanakh

Heroes:

Martin Luther King Jr., John Updike, Philip Levine, Ralph Nader, Green Lantern

My Blog

Non-Xangans can now comment on my Xanga blog

I just wanted to let you know that even if you aren't a Xanga member, you can now comment on my Xanga blog (that's where I mainly post). And I hope you will. ...
Posted by Daniel on Wed, 23 May 2007 04:38:00 PST

Movin' to Pennsylvania

Amanda and I are packing up and moving out of New York for Lancaster, PA, by the end of August. We're really happy about it; we'll be a lot closer to our families and to many of our friends.Amanda's a...
Posted by Daniel on Tue, 25 Jul 2006 09:40:00 PST

Turnin' this tadpole into an adult blog

My recent flood of posts to my Xanga indicates I have more to write about than this space allows or encourages. So I'm finally going to go for something I've been considering for a while: A separate, ...
Posted by Daniel on Wed, 21 Jun 2006 07:13:00 PST

If you don't like Bush, you don't like conservatism

If you don't like Bush, you don't like conservatismThe current popular wisdom in American politics is that times are tough for conservatives, but liberals aren't taking advantage of the situation beca...
Posted by Daniel on Mon, 19 Jun 2006 09:40:00 PST

Help me come up with a tag line

Frodos Notebook, the Web site that Timothy Rezendes, Julia Shields, and now Ryan Miller and I run, is undergoing a complete overhaul. Were keeping all the incredible work in our archives, but everythi...
Posted by Daniel on Wed, 26 Apr 2006 10:22:00 PST

What, you don't support freedom software?

I'm learning how to write software documentation. I'd like to join the community of high-tech freedom fighters by writing instructions and manuals and help files.As I'm learning, I keep running across...
Posted by Daniel on Sun, 09 Apr 2006 02:27:00 PST

I done went and got tagged

So the rules are, once you've been tagged, you have to write a blog with "6 weird facts/things/habits about yourself." In the end you need to choose the 6 people to be tagged and list their names. Don...
Posted by Daniel on Mon, 27 Mar 2006 11:46:00 PST

In memory of P.B. Swirls

One of our guinea pigs, P.B. Swirls, died very early yesterday morning, leaving Amanda and I utterly heartbroken. Amanda was still out of town, having gone home to York to be with her grandpa, who is ...
Posted by Daniel on Wed, 08 Mar 2006 11:44:00 PST

Open Letter to the Olympic Theme Song

Dear Olympic Theme Song, I know. Our relationship over the past two decades has been one-sided. You do all the talking, and I just listen. But today I wanted to write to you to let you know how specia...
Posted by Daniel on Sat, 11 Feb 2006 10:50:00 PST

Son of a Gun

Let's see... I haven't posted here in a while, because no one seems to be reading my blog, and no one's probably reading my blog because I haven't posted in a while. But fear not: boredom has prevaile...
Posted by Daniel on Wed, 08 Feb 2006 10:47:00 PST