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elsewhence - adv. From some other place.

About Me

I have no idea how I got here. I'm into photography and film, in all of their current technological developments (media in general, I guess).I travel about twice a year, give or take. I wish there was more money to be made in waging peace and understanding...

My Interests

Film. Running. Writing does more for my sanity than anything else.

I'd like to meet:

People from all over the world to share cultural, artistic, political and spiritual ideas.

Music:

International folk.

Movies:

2046, 400 Blows, Easy Rider, 2001: A Space Odyssy, Dr. Strangelove, The Grand Illusion, Last Tango In Paris, PI, Deliverance, L'Humanite, Hidden Fortress, Chunking Express, Whale Rider, Raise the Red Lantern, Farewell My Concubine, Planet of the Apes...

Television:

None.

Books:

John Barleycorn, short stories by Jack London, Essays in Self-Destruction (edited by E. Schneidman), The Anatony of Human Destructiveness (Fromm), A Social History of Madnesss (Porter), The Denial of Death (Becker), Life Against Death (Brown), Asylums (Goffman), Man Against Mass Society (Marcel), The Yellow Wallpaper (Gilman), Man For Himself (Fromm), Man's Search For Meaning (Frankl), The Broken Image/Man, Science and Society (Matson), Trout Fishing In America (Brautigan), poems by Langston Hughes, and numerous other modern and post-modern poets.

Heroes:

The Smothers Brothers, Bessie Smith, Oscar Zeta Acosta, Du’a Khalil Aswad, Mordechai Vanunu, Steve Biko, Sibel Edmonds, Seymour Hersch, Edward Said, Ruben Salazar, Rachel Corrie, Percy Schmeiser, Florence Nighingale, Coleen Rowley, Arundhati Roy, Asmahan, Amy Goodman, WORT-FM (streamable), Zinedine Zidane... ... ...anyone who stands up and does the right thing when the circumstances before them require action.

My Blog

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neivie nicknack, [1 n--'vi nik'nak"; 2 n--'vi n--k'n--k"] n. [Scot.] A child's game of guessing in which hand a thing is held while the holder recites a verse beginning with this formula....
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boorga, n. [Enuit] A blizzard; storm of wind and sleet.
Posted by Q on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 09:51:00 PST

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yotacism, n. The forming of j (English y) or some other allied sound simultaneously with a continuous consonant made with the outer (front) part of the tongue, as s, r, l, as in the li sound in milli...
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qualtagh, /kwal'taH/ n. 1. The first person or animal met on going out in the morning, considered a sign of good or evil luck. 2. Same as FIRST FOOT. [Manx, quaail, meet]...
Posted by Q on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:51:00 PST

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luculent, a. 1. Full of light; brilliant; transparent; pellucid as, a luculent stream. 2. Figuratively; clearly evident; luminous; lucid....
Posted by Q on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 08:13:00 PST

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knubble, n. [Prov. Eng.] A small knob; knub: an outcropping knob of rocks by the seashore. knub, n. 1. A knob or nub. 2. The waste refuse of silk-cocoons. vt. To beat: strike with the knuckles. k...
Posted by Q on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 09:50:00 PST

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accismus, n. [L. L.] Rhet. A feigned refusal of something earnestly desired.
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Ta' urt, n. Egypt Antiq. A benignant goddess in the form of a female hippopotamus.
Posted by Q on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 07:47:00 PST

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devils-on-horseback, n. A savory dish composed of oysters and bacon.
Posted by Q on Sun, 20 Jan 2008 08:51:00 PST

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cat's tongue, n. A slender, worthless oyster.
Posted by Q on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:21:00 PST