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Mark

"...said she's sending me back all the things I never gave her..." -Morphine, "Empty Box"

About Me

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Let's see... I grew up in Washington State, from which I get the vegetarianism, the mood swings and the love of loud music and natural beauty. Then, I spent the last decade of my life being nomadic, with anywhere between a month and a year in about half a dozen different cities (Spokane, Seattle, Pittsburgh, Lowell, Las Cruces, Las Vegas, Portland, Cambridge MD, Lexington, KY... I think that's it) and two summers in Europe. I liked Europe. A lot. I hope to go back sometime.
My life is fiction. If you know me then you know what that means. If you don't know me, well, you should. Really. I'm awesome. Plus, I'm always down to collect new friends. Especially friends named Sara/h. Man, you should see my collection of Sara/hs.
What else? I sing and talk pretty, I coach a little speech & debate team at Georgetown College, I stress too much about a job I'm only going to have for ten more weeks.
I have amazing friends who like to help me clean and pack my house, who regularly help me make an ass of myself at any number of local dive bars, who say off-color things about the off-color things I say to them, who wait until I'm passed out and then try to land M&Ms in my open mouth from across the room. You can't buy friends like that. Really. I've tried.
Other than that, I'm looking for tenants for a two-bedroom house in Lexington that I don't even want to try to sell in this market. I'm looking forward to spending this summer couch surfing the country and the next five years in San Diego, alternatively drinking on the beach and getting my ass handed to me by one of the most challenging doctoral programs in the country.
So I'm coming to San Diego in September, and looking to make friends. If I seem like the sort of kid you'd invite to play in your sandbox, hit me up!
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My Interests

Singing. Gaming. Poker. Poetry. Writing. Coaching Speech & Debate, and getting glared at by Weezie.

I'd like to meet:

1. Someone who knows the difference between "who" and "whom", and how to properly use each.2. Scantily dressed, loose women who really want me to check out their Webcam or IM them on Yahoo at hotsexygirrrl.3. Real people.4. People who quote me songs and poetry I haven't heard or read somewhere before.5. People who quote me songs and poetry I HAVE heard or read somewhere before.6. This gay, black midget some friends of mine met at The Bar Complex in Lexington this one time. I'd dig meeting him. Just to say I did.

Music:

Evanescence. Rage Against the Machine. Live. Tool. Collective Soul. Toad the Wet Sprocket. Jurassic 5. Nirvana. Bloodhound Gang. Ozomatli. Del tha Funkee Homosapien. Sarah McLachlan. Ludacris (_Word of Mouf_). STP. Disturbed. Wu Tang. Pink Floyd. Sting. Sway n Tech. Eminem. Nat King Cole. A Perfect Circle. Genesis. Depeche Mode. Breaking Benjamin. Duran Duran. Talk Talk. Classical stuff I've performed, read about or studied up on, esp. the Carmina Burana, Mahler's 2nd, Brahms, Beethoven, Faure, Mendelssohn, Berlioz, Poulenc... the jazz scene in Kentucky's, well, either hard to find or not here.

Movies:

Office Space, American Beauty, Happiness, Mother Night, 12 Monkeys, etc.

Television:

Law n Order junkie, Daily Show, Colbert Report, Family Guy, ATHF, Scrubs, etc.

Books:

House of Leaves redefined books for me. Anything by Kurt Vonnegut . David James Duncan is amazing. If you haven't read Paul Rieckhoff's book , you really should. Lots of others... I WORK with books, for $%..&'s sake!

Heroes:

Wilfred Owen, Dalton Trumbo, Kurt Vonnegut, Joseph Heller, Tim O'Brien, Paul Rieckhoff and anybody else who makes fiction out of "virtuous" wars. Yeah. Good thing we learned THAT lesson, huh?

Educators. People who fight ignorance in whatever capacity. People who know who they are and fight to protect themselves and others. To boot: Dan Savage, Eminem, Harriet Van Meter, Elaine Atkinson, etc.

When Joe Biden speaks I listen, which makes him a good politician, I guess. Other such people include Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter and Gary Locke.

My Blog

The Official October 4th, 2008 Biden-Palin Drinking Game!

Hey, kids!Well, it's that time again-- the Presidential election looms! And you know what that means-- THE VICE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES! Yay!!!This year, the debates will be held on the night of October ...
Posted by Mark on Sat, 06 Sep 2008 09:36:00 PST

My Third Eye

I spent today in a rehearsal for a show-- Opera Workshop here at the College. Before that, though, I signed the papers that made it official. As of next September, I will be a resident of Sa...
Posted by Mark on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 10:51:00 PST

If he weren’t taken, and I were gay...

I'd totally do Dan Savage. Here's why: Quoted from Savage Love, January 3rd, 2008: http://www.thestranger.com/savage I realize Savage Love is a sex-advice column (as evidenced by much vulgar language)...
Posted by Mark on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 02:46:00 PST

Where do you want to go today...?

The most amazing thing happened today.At about three in the morning, I was in the process of re-editing a late-draft version of my writing sample for Northwestern University (I couldn't open the newer...
Posted by Mark on Sun, 30 Dec 2007 03:31:00 PST

"Your Digital World"

What follows is my response to a CNN "We Want You To Tell Us" segment, available at http://www.cnn.com/exchange/ireports/topics/forms/your.digit al.world.html. The segment appears below, in yellow high...
Posted by Mark on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 02:22:00 PST

The YouTube Debates...

Were AWESOME. So, in the spirit of those enterprising fellow citizens who sent in all kinds of clever and provocative questions, I've decided to put my own spin on a recent GOP campaign ad. These pe...
Posted by Mark on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 07:53:00 PST

You can quod me on this...

What follows, by popular demand, is a first-hand account of the now-infamous series of events herein referred to as the "ass-through-the-Scrabble-board-incident":   Me, my girlfriend Rhae, and on...
Posted by Mark on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 01:26:00 PST

Chillin' an' Illin'

For all concerned-- I am back at work today, but still far from 100%. More than a week into whatever the hell this is, I'm still coughing, I feel weak, and I still occasionally run a fever. I hope to ...
Posted by Mark on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 08:35:00 PST

The ME Test

Some of you (And by "some of you", I mean Jamie Moshin) have been bitching about not getting to see the correct answers to my "me" test. Well, here they are. LOOK AT THEM ONLY IF YOU'VE TAKEN THE...
Posted by Mark on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 06:52:00 PST

Was entstanden ist...

...das muss vergehen. I was on the reference desk today, thinking about what I was doing a year ago. A year ago, I remember sitting at Arby's-- I know it was a year ago because they had just announced...
Posted by Mark on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 09:00:00 PST