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The Detective

slave to my dreams

About Me

Carbon-based in this dimension, yet in-tune with the other myriad levels of existence through the focus of vibrational frequencies that resonate around us.

Ok, I am not even sure what that meant.
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I tend to be a very strange "pattern recognition filter"...meaning I notice very small things...even the things that one may gloss over. I have always been this way. Perhaps too much Richard Blade when I was a kid. The best approximation that I can come up with would be that guy from Law and Order: Criminal Intent. Not the hunky one that gets all the ladies and tends to be a fool, otherwise. Nope. The other one...Vincent D'Onofrio's character.I am a teacher who amuses myself by...________. MySpace Layouts
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My Interests

I love it when someone goes "huh?". That's just neat, especially when you can make them do it. Not "huh" in a bad way, but you just make them think a little. Not that I do that. I don't think. Promise.

The usual: art, photography, music, and reading. I also have an addiction to oxygen and Guinness.

I'd like to meet:

Life is a joke. Not a bad joke, mind you, but just a joke. It's humor as well as offensive and utterly neutral in it's telling. It can bring joy as well as violate your sensibilities.

It's the meaning we perceive and intend in that joke that gives us our life.So, that means pretty much no one. Uh. I guess.If you'd like to chat, I'm on AIM @ existentialhope. I enjoy a GOOD conversation. :)

Movies:

The Life Aquatic, The Equation, Rushmore. If the movie has "star" or "matrix" or is based on a comic, then i've prolly seen it and love it. i lurved Amelie, Forrest Gump, and Shopgirl, too. I really don't see movies a whole lot. Bastards. others would include..."the last temptation of christ", "american beauty", "2001", "blade runner", and you get the idea...Wings of Desire, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Napoleon Dynamite, Batman Begins. I "heart" huckabees was very lame. oops for you.

Television:

MST3000!, Six Feet Under, LOST, House, Seinfeld, I Love Lucy, X-Files, Leave It To Beaver, Law and Order: Criminal Intent, The "Mission: Impossible" TV series (early 70's), Robotech, Old School Anime: Battle of the Planets, Gunship Yanomamo; The Super-Friends on DVD, Smallville, PBS, Public Access, and YouTube.

Books:

A Parallel Dimension, The Origin of Emotion, Reefer Madness, On Language and Thought (Chomsky), Scientific American (the rag), Philosophy Today (sometimes), The Holographic Universe (again), God and the New Physics, The Tao of Pooh, ABZ (Shel Silverstein), Comic Book Nation, Being and Nothingnes, The Dancing Wu-Li Masters, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Is Science Necessary?, Fuzzy Logic, The Rebel (Camus), The Stranger, Crime and Punishment, Notes from Underground, The Grand Inquisitor, To Have and To Be, The Art of Loving, The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness, Escape From Freedom, Man's Search for Meaning, The Narnia Chronicles, The Last Temptation of Christ, Metamorphosis, The Trial, The Lover, Sons and Lovers, Story of O, Where The Sidewalk Ends, The Devil's Dictionary, The Sherlock Holmes Collection, Hope For The Flowers, Goodnight Moon, I Love You Forever, too many comics, and most of Shakespeare, Hegel, Husserl, Heidegger, Schopenhauer, Wittgenstein, Kant and Descartes. I can't remember the rest right now. Oh, wait, and pretty much any comic I can get my hands on. Wikipedia, too. I know it isn't a book, but it's great.

Heroes:

People who love, no matter what.And, of course, me mum. She's been through Hell.Real heroes change the world.

My Blog

aw...

my students have been so good!wtf?no fights, everyone gets a long, and we did a cooperative art/math project today and hot damn, it was great!i'll post some pics when i get a chance....
Posted by The Detective on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 11:57:00 PST

Art Show!

On Saturday, Becca is having an art show at her place in Highland Park, CA. It's from 7 to 10pm. I hope to see you there. Free wine!(if you go, email me and maybe we can meet there!)...
Posted by The Detective on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 04:44:00 PST

Whoa.

I met someone last night that claimed they had this, and, well....you could totally tell.Their coping systems were being random and funny, but...odd.(and, they self-medicated with alcohol)Adult attent...
Posted by The Detective on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 07:36:00 PST

Resolutions

1) save money (10k in the bank by jan '08).2) keep running (two marathons this year, i hope).3) try to see if i can teach a college class over the summer.4) move (next month, i hope, to the LBC!)5) ha...
Posted by The Detective on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 07:06:00 PST

Great News!

So, yesterday, I went in to the "Voice Studio" and auditioned for a spot for the CTA (California Teacher's Association), and...well, I got it, but that's not it.The guy asked if I could read some line...
Posted by The Detective on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 04:13:00 PST

Gah! (repost)

Working at work while having no students is bliss...Yet, today, I was so politely informed by my vice principal that I might be having 20 students for awhile.Apparently, they had to fire a special ed ...
Posted by The Detective on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 01:21:00 PST

silence

there is a silencein methat becomeswithout.grey and bluemix in my eyesair in my mindand it's here....i no longer pretend to know.either i do, or i don't.and, nowdays, i don't think i know as much as i...
Posted by The Detective on Thu, 28 Dec 2006 07:30:00 PST

bars

"oh, come on...we're a bar...we are supposed to serve drunks..." welcome to my life. :)
Posted by The Detective on Sun, 17 Dec 2006 12:43:00 PST

content v. context

i have a DOG.i HAVE a dog.I have a dog.i have A dog.those may all seem the same to you, yet are they?the capitals stress accents, which are quite filled with context, not content.yet, doesn't the cont...
Posted by The Detective on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 06:26:00 PST

new student

i have a new student and his name is robert. he is severely disabled.now, i teach a mild/moderately disabled class, which has its moments, but it's good.god's work and such...at any rate, so he's in m...
Posted by The Detective on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 03:41:00 PST