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About Me

Life throws you 1000 chances, you just have to take one. Or ten. Or a hundred. I started out as a biomedical research engineer, saw other chances and took them. Got to front bands, act on TV, write comedy sketches, win poetry slams, create interactive talking sculptures, win awards, travel Europe as Press, take up professional firespinning and blah blah blah. The point is it was fun as hell and still is. Glad I took the chance. Will you take a chance? By the way, I'm Wisconsin Regional Contact for Burning Man so if you have questions or want to go, I'm the guy to talk to. :)

What else. I'm quiet and low-key until I know you. I invent things for people. I'm a good cook, and grow my own vegetables. I like camping, and sometimes set up a tent in my house just to get away from it all. I organize parties and events. I studied more philosophy, law, and religion than is good for anyone, and I'm still not sure what is going on! I like to joke and laugh cuz there is all too much serious stuff in the world. Kids and animals like me cuz I can tune to their level. I'm a natural leader and organize a lot of projects. I'm a veggie boy and a Yoga boy, sort of a closet hippie really. But also a big science-head and I've done research for the NIH. I need to sing more, and get out of the house more often and meet more pretty girls. Anything else, just ask. :0

Clip of part of our firespinning troupe performing in the Great Fire Conclave at Burning Man:

A comedy sketch from our TV show, which is on every Saturday and Sunday night, 11 pm on Milwaukee Cable Ch. 96:

A few links to articles:
An profile in MKE Magazine
Article about our fire spinning group in MKE Magazine
Article about our Experimental Arts center in Riverwest Currents Magazine
Article from Milwaukee-Journal-Sentinel
Article about our Burning Man Regional Contact group in Riverwest Currents Magazine
A few webpage links:

Our firespinning troupe, SnowFire
Our Non-profit arts institute
A few samples of our TV show
The Wisconsin Regional Contact Page for Burning Man
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My Interests

Arts, Burning Man, cooking, Debate, Early christian heresies, Firespinning, Gardening, Honesty, Independant television production, Justice, Kinetic sculpture, Law, Massage, Nature, Orgasms, Poetry, Quality, Running an experimental arts center, Smart sexy women, Traveling, Umbrellas, Vegetarianism, Water, X-factor, Yoga, Zen.Is that every letter yet?

I'd like to meet:

I like people passionate about creating and living. Honesty and integrity are important to me, though I have friends who are "Charming Scoundrels" too. Discretion is important to me as well. As a semi-public person, I like my private life private. Just for you and me.

Music:

Floyd, Psychedelic furs, Hooverphonic, Morphine, Velvet Underground, Sigur Ros, Bjork, Radiohead, James Brown, Sarah McLaughlin, Heather Nova, lots of stuf, really.

Movies:

Mainly indie films, I like a lot of stuff by Stanley Kubrick and Terry Gilliam.

Television:

Comedies, news, adventure, nature. Then there is the stuff on TV too! :)

Books:

I have about 1200, don't get me started...

Heroes:

My grandfather, father and mother, Socrates, Ghandi, Benjamin Franklin.

My Blog

Locks and Keys

I often tell people going to Burning Man that it’s about radicalSelf-Sufficiency, so bring everything you want-- including a lover. Don’texpect one to be there.That said, I have a certain ...
Posted by eric on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 02:06:00 PST

Being mature

What’s it like, to reach some mature age, like 47 for example? Pretty cool! It’s like living all the way to your first maturity at 23, then having your whole life given back to you to liv...
Posted by eric on Sat, 05 Apr 2008 07:51:00 PST

Are you the one? (poem)

How do you know?Does an angel come down and tell you so slow that this is the one?Does she whisper in your ear: Look, this one will always be here when the day is done? Does a bulb light up? Or lightn...
Posted by eric on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 02:52:00 PST

French Love and American Love

Spending some time in France, and hanging out with other travelers, the issue always came up: "what's up with love in America? Why so complicated, so nutty? Why the high divorce rate? Why are people s...
Posted by eric on Sun, 22 Jul 2007 11:43:00 PST

Love is like a penny jar....

When I was just starting out, I was lucky enough to hook up with a French woman nearly twice my age. I asked her what made a relationship work. She pointed to the penny jar on the ...
Posted by eric on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 09:40:00 PST

Patriarchy?

I was thinking about patriarchy, how we got it, where it came from, why it lasted for thousands of years and in many ways is still around. And also about why younger women often find older, suces...
Posted by eric on Thu, 27 Dec 2007 02:47:00 PST

Being "The One"

Many guys are told "If she says you're the one, it's time to run." Why is this? People all around the world watch romantic movies, but only Americans believe them to be true facts. :) ...
Posted by eric on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 01:13:00 PST

Iraq-- a poem

IRAQ Hot, walking down the trail at dawn.The mudboots, and the cooties onour minds as we come around that dune, lured by a singing sound. The beautiful girl was lying downin the sand. In her side, a l...
Posted by eric on Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:53:00 PST

Chess...

CHESS: When I play chess, I'm always losing my queen.Some say it's because I put her right out into the action,Instead of keeping her in back behind a wall until it's safe to come out....Liike that wi...
Posted by eric on Sun, 01 Jul 2007 06:39:00 PST

Poem to James Brown

JAMES BROWN James Brown!Kidnaped by aliens.Split by a bizarre transporter beam accidentinto two constituent parts: James Brain,And James Brawn. James Brain: Smooth and debonair With his cap and his ca...
Posted by eric on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 09:02:00 PST