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About Me

it's been quite some time now since I said I was going to update this, so I thought now might be a good time... I like architecture, bicycles, travel, and if I can combine all three I'm generally happy to. Although the bicycles part in the past has tended to be a bit cumbersome. I have a difficult time limiting my packing when it comes to luggage as it is and it provides me with one more opportunity to include those two extra pairs of shoes I might have otherwise left behind :| I'm in what seems like a constant process of re-evaluating but for the time being the reasons you should get to know me... I won't profess to know exactly: I'm open-minded, thoughtful, have an interest in politics, a propensity for truthfulness which at times astounds/confounds people, I'm athletic, fit and fun in general, I am well read though not to the degree that I would like. I hold a sense of wonder about the things that happen in the world and love to try new things. On a side note, if I say I'm going to do something I tend to follow through, so if that concerns you... On the negative side, and yes there are negatives, I've been told I can be vague at times, when it comes to things I need to accomplish for myself, I procrastinate to seemingly no end, it at times hasn't lent itself well to... hm, I'm working on it. I can be somewhat aloof, which also doesn't lend itself well to certain situations. I lean towards the obscure, and sometimes am too subtle for my own good. While I may ascribe to one good turn deserves another, I'm not terribly good at either asking for help or accepting it. Perhaps you should be more concerned about these vices than the aforementioned following through...

My Interests

Tennis, Cycling, Architecture, Reading, Basketball, Futbol:)... Finding out new things about the people around me and myself. Working on that one though, as I'm self-absorbed... :| and everyone should check this out... just keep in mind, its an idea as of yet unrealized... www.arcosanti.org

I'd like to meet:

now as for this section. People in the area, people that live abroad or in the US. If you're into cycling and want someone to go riding with... (once the weather warms up a bit or I suppose we could set up indoor trainers?) If you're in the architecture field that would be fantastic and a plus, contacts are nice to have. Lastly, someone not looking to drive me to the brink... lol, seriously :|

Music:

Velvet Revolver, Aimee Mann, Tom Petty, CAT POWER, Gin Blossoms, The Cardigans, La Boheme, Aqua, Pearl Jam, Aerosmith, U2, Anna Vissi, Madonna, Bach, Bjork, Danzig, The Cranberries, Loreena McKennitt, Guns N Roses, Jewel, Milla, Ani Difranco, Lenny Kravitz, Duran Duran, Moby , U2, No Doubt, Billy Idol, Dolly Parton, Mozart, Led Zeppelin, Annie Lennox, Bob Marley, Il Pirata...

Movies:

Comedies, Drama, Documentaries, Action, all of the above:) : Man on Fire, Forrest Gump, Copenhagen, What Dreams May Come, Dazed and Confused, The Last Emperor... and I'm a little behind the times, but I just recently saw Napolean Dynamite, and that was funny.

Television:

Seinfeld, Will & Grace sometimes, Murder She Wrote? The EGG.

Books:

Napoleon, Outside Lies Magic: Regaining History and Awareness in Everyday Places (check one off the list), Subversion in the age of conformity (an as of yet to be written tome), The Resurrection by Tolstoy, No Place Like Utopia, Ibsen's plays, The Republic, A Natural History of the Senses, The Great Gatsby, The Virtual Dimension, David Copperfield... I just recently read a transcript of a lecture by a Philhellene, I know, its awkward sounding

Heroes:

all of those that came before me and all of those to come. Define heroic for me? My heroes have been anybody that has left a lasting impression of good on my mind.

My Blog

’You ain’t just smoking pot’

PORTERVILLE, Calif. - National forests and parks long popular with Mexican marijuana-growing cartels have become home to some of the most polluted pockets of wilderness in America because of the t...
Posted by Michael on Sun, 12 Oct 2008 06:45:00 PST

If any of you have the chance

I would suggest looking to see when this program is on your local PBS stations and watching it:"Albert Alcalay: Self-Portraits"[D] (WGBH-HD)View more broadcast timesAn examination of how abstract art ...
Posted by Michael on Sun, 14 Sep 2008 09:50:00 PST

I’d watch television more

if this was on: ...
Posted by Michael on Sun, 07 Sep 2008 09:07:00 PST

Any suggestions?

I was looking up pizza recipes for diabetics. There's a teenager I play basketball with at the gym I go to that has diabetes. And they were going to be ordering pizzas this Sunday after we play. But t...
Posted by Michael on Wed, 27 Aug 2008 03:23:00 PST

the muscles from Brussels?? un mouton?

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Posted by Michael on Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:12:00 PST

Im still taken by the notion proposed

by Margaret Atwood, in a short story called Life Stories. By constructing our life stories, we are dismantling our pasts. For every photographic memory that we put to paper, we are essentially erasing...
Posted by Michael on Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:42:00 PST

The uneventful times between...

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Posted by Michael on Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:52:00 PST

This simply seems wrong

how difficult can it be to tranquilize a bear with a jug over its head when you give yourself 6 days to do it???Minn. officers shoot bear with jar stuck on headOfficials had tried to no avail to trap ...
Posted by Michael on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 03:24:00 PST

Dead penguins wash ashore on Brazil’s beaches

Most of the more than 400 mammals found in past two months were babesupdated 12:36 p.m. ET, Sat., July. 19, 2008RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Hundreds of penguins swept from the icy shores of Antarctica an...
Posted by Michael on Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:46:00 PST

This kid is awesome

Ky. boy checks drivers' speed with toy radar gun11-year-old got tired of shouting at cars to slow down on his streetLOUISVILLE, Ky. - Landon Wilburn, 11, has a future as a cop a traffic cop.The youn...
Posted by Michael on Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:44:00 PST