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bryan

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About Me


Sometimes I go by Ahab.

My Interests

legos, climbing trees, riding bicycles, really springy diving boards, string, old volvos, parking lot dance parties, gazebos, quaker graveyards, penn oaks, large curd 4% cottage cheese, klutz products, shoelaces, the magic 8 ball, moroccan owned and operated 25-hour diners, quarrys, especially with large cliffs, hats, bandanas, pieces of bicycles, faucet aerators, mittens, baklava, warm trail mix, electric razors, Emer'gen-c, warm undergarments, pocket watches, tater tots, pterodactyls, warm apple cider, hard apple cider, ovaltine, photography, cinema, emotion, life.

I'd like to meet:

-David the Gnome
-Pat Robertson
-A Pterodactyl. One who will converse intelligently and/or fly me places
-someone to love whose favorite color is orange.
-People whose presence causes electrical appliances to malfunction
-The ghost in my house
-Close friends from childhood who I haven't seen in years
-A snowstorm that thunders and flashes lightning
-That guy. The one the one who was going to save the world, who was going to end hunger, bring peace, set the societal stage so that REAL justice and freedom reign, but he knocked up his girlfriend in college and now he's left sitting in the suburbs in the kind of bad part of town, with his four kids and 2-bedroom house, a mortgage he works his ass off to pay at some menial blue-collar job, left sitting next to his aging furniture and wife, thinking, "I was going to be a writer."

Music:

Mostly angry women.

Movies:

See: Books. Also, most films that are especially pretty.

Television:

Things that are fun to yell at. Like Fox News and The 700 Club. And educational things. Like history and science and such. I also really like Roseanne. Yeah, the series finale made me cry. what of it?

Books:

most things that kick you in the face with their ability to make you experience them. Vicarious, uncontrollable sobbing is pretty much the greatest ever.

Heroes:

Everyone at Progressive Pool Management.

My Blog

On Male Bisexuality

When a dude goes on a date with a dude, a first date, specifically, the subject of sexuality is bound to come up at some point. It's a given that you're on a date in a homosexual context, something th...
Posted by bryan on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 12:58:00 PST

Oh hey prison.

Okay so hey guys. I'm writing out the details of my adventure last night, partly because I want to explain to those of you whom I ditched at Angels and Kings, and to those who I called out of nowhere ...
Posted by bryan on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 07:49:00 PST

Many many assumptions about ideologies and confidence and admiration.

Tonight I sat on the train and three almost elderly, upper-middle class pseudo-intellectual (politically) folks sat across from me in their business attire which consisted of tan trenchcoats and black...
Posted by bryan on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 08:34:00 PST

Last night I laughed myself to sleep

I remembered this last night as I was trying to sleep and I was laughing for a while, so I wrote it down this morning. I thought I would share.One of my most cherished memories from childhood is not a...
Posted by bryan on Fri, 31 Mar 2006 08:42:00 PST

General Psychology

This is what my psych course has taught me about myself so far: 1) I'm remarkably neurotic. 2) I'm shouldn't be working on making something out of myself yet; therefore I shouldn;t be in college.
Posted by bryan on Wed, 16 Nov 2005 11:34:00 PST

shutup this is worth documenting

woooo...live8.  I wasn't expecting much, and I wasn't suprised.  In terms of the concert.  Hot and crowded and lame music and such.  The events surrounding the concert however, spe...
Posted by bryan on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST