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I spend much of my time wandering along city streets, dreaming impossible worlds populated by improbable heroes, finding more beauty in imperfection than perfection, and reconciling a passion for metaphysics with a constant craving for pancakes.

I have numerous interests, from a life long love of science fiction and fantasy in all its forms, to philosophy and psychology, theoretical science and comparative religions, anthropology and paleontology, hiking and traveling, film and theater, art and ancient history. I love reading fiction, short stories and novels, and comic books (what people like to call, for fear of the stigma, 'graphic novels' or 'sequential art narratives'). Primarily writing fiction (science fiction, fantasy, horror, magic realism/absurdism), drawing (pencils and ink), reading fiction, reading non-fiction (science, ancient history, anthropology, philosophy, and psychology), taking long walks to mull over various issues be they a perplexing plot point, some peculiar point of science, philosophy, or politics, or to simply enjoy the pure act of wandering. On occasion, my urge to wander will take me to the other side of the planet.

Favorite movies include: Metropolis, Brazil, Blade Runner, Barton Fink, the Seven Samurai, the Good the Bad and the Ugly, the classic movie monster films (Dracula, Frankenstein, Wolf Man and the Mummy), Film Noir (yes, the entire genre),the original three Romero 'Dead' films, Legend, the Dark Crystal, the original three Star Wars films, Iron Giant, the majority of Coen Brothers films, and I'm a sucker for werewolf movies. I am a horror film buff, classic and new, foreign and domestic, B-list and bigger budget, though I prefer those with a supernatural element (monster movies) as opposed to slasher and splatter punk flicks.

Favorite reading material includes: The works of Haruki Murakami, Kob Abe, Jose Saramago, Will Self, Corey Doctrow, Philip K Dick, William Hope Hodgson, Theodore Sturgeon, Alfred Bester, Thomas Liggotti, Neal Stephenson, Steven Erikson, Jack O'Connell, Sean Murphy, Frank Herbert, Jules Verne, Kathe Koja, Lewis Carroll, Salman Rushdie, Mervyn Peake, Neil Gaiman, China Mieville and so many more. Some favorite Books: Don Quixote (Cervantes), Master and Margarita (Bulgakov), Invitation to a Beheading (Nabokov)

“After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings.”

~Richard Dawkins

"It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man."

~Richard P. Feynman

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