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About Me

I am a daydreamy, random, happy young gentleman (of the old fashioned sort to be sure). I'm working on my German major, I hope to get my phd and teach higher ed, so that I may serve knowledge full time. I do a lot of reading, and I'm absolutely mad for Dostoevsky. I'm very interested in the religions of the world and love reading scriptures of all faiths. I like cats(!) and silliness. I think normal is another word for insecure. I love tea and coffee. I like people of all sorts, and would love to meet them all. I like to dance like a fool, and make an ass of myself in a non-threatening manner. I like calling cotton candy spun sugar and oatmeal porridge. I like to learn what makes people tick. I like B movies. I really like kids and I'd like to adopt someday. I like surprises. I love Saved by the Bell, no one realizes its satirical genius. I want to throw off all of my inhibitions. I try to be a gentleman. I enjoy sarcasm, but not in a rude way. I pretend to have imaginary children. The oldest is at math camp. I enjoy being an eccentric. I wish it were acceptable for adults to play make believe, and run through the tunnels in the play zone at fast food restaurants. I'd like to build a fort, sit in it, read, and drink tea. I believe that Feminism is insufficient, and the time has come for a movement to liberate all people from the tyranny of gender norms. I have a cat named Minx, a dog named Bailey, (or rather I used to) and a teddy bear named Freddybear. Sometimes soup is delicious. I wish that I liked to exercise, but I'm rather sedentary. Swings are fun, but merry-go-rounds make me throw up. Last time I rode on the merry-go-round I threw up right on top of it in order to warn the other kids to stay away. I would like to attain true innocence. The English language is fun because it has something for everyone. I like to kiss hands, and if someone did the same for me I think I'd die with pleasure. My car's name is Lazarus, and he is a bit of a disappointed idealist. I like to tell jokes that really aren't funny. I'd like to find the fountain of youth to resurrect my cat. I wish that Miss Cleo was my childhood nanny. I spill salt on purpose so I can throw it over my shoulder. I really like people, but I'm a tiny bit shy, so I try to be friendly by smiling at no one, or maybe the ceiling. I can steer a car using only my feet.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Fyodor "Dreamboat" Dostoevsky, My intellectual father, my mentor and guide.I will NOT add books, bands, movies, authors or webcams. I am not a billboard. Sell your products somewhere else. If you have a profile dedicated to your own self rather than your business ventures, perhaps I will consider you.My ultimate fantasy. . .

My Blog

Dogmatism and Militant Belief

Having grown up in a very Evangelical family, I've developed a healthy dislike for all forms of religious fundamentalism. That said, the only things that bothers me more than the militant religious pe...
Posted by on Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:52:00 GMT

Finished!

It is official:  at the end of the day I should have turned in all of my grad school application materials.  I had been a bit worried about my sample writing, but you know, now that I look at it, it's...
Posted by on Mon, 02 Mar 2009 08:46:00 GMT

An Exercise in Psychoanalysis

Lately I have been working on an analysis of the works of one of today's finest and most underappreciated lyricists. Can there be any doubt, but that I mean Fergie? In particular I've focused my atten...
Posted by on Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:50:00 GMT

Lovely Quotation from Moby Dick

"There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become...
Posted by on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 04:32:00 GMT

Public Service Announcement

I’ve often commented about the amount of gratuitous sex on pop radio, but I’ve finally decided that now is the time to profit from it.  With that in mind I’ve decided to ho...
Posted by on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 04:37:00 GMT

How Brady got wet

I love morning!  I always wake up happy to be alive, and awake, and born all over again.  I have so much energy, I want to run from one end of the hall to the other, over and over and over a...
Posted by on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 01:34:00 GMT

My Amazing Trip to Russia

(Excuse all of the question marks, apparently myspace is not capable of printing Russian characters) After getting off the shuttle bus at the wrong station and asking directions, I end up at the Munic...
Posted by on Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:55:00 GMT

On the exhausting process of obtaining a Russian visa

Well, I'm finally done, and after two weeks off from school I finally feel as if I'm on vacation.  In hindsight, everything did not need to be so difficult as it was, anyway, too late for that.&n...
Posted by on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:08:00 GMT

I’ve been propositioned!

Oh lord.  Look what I got in my mailbox: I am visiting Regensburg from the US. Would love to meet up with someone in my hotel while I am here. I am staying in Hotel Ibis. I am free at night after...
Posted by on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 14:58:00 GMT

Religion as Play, or Pilgrimage to Rock Awesome

Proof of the existence of God is not only impossible, but counter-productive. If religion became subject to undeniable proof, it would immediately cease to serve its function as an expression of ...
Posted by on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 07:17:00 GMT