Age: mid-to-late-20s
Gender: this is the internet, what do you think?
Ethnicity: WASP and Polack
Religion: Short answer- agnostic. Long answer- the evidence indicates there probably isn't a God, but I understand the human need for worship and have even felt it from time to time. Every few years or so I contemplate becoming a Quaker.
Place of Birth: I grew up right near the diner where Tony Soprano gets whacked to the strains of "Don't Stop Believing".
Current Location: deep in the middle of Brooklyn, recently moved from West Philly.
Occupation: Overeducated and underemployed.
Favorite Music: Paul Simon, Spoon, Sufjan Stevens, Igor Stravinsky, Bela Bartok, John Adams, Radiohead, Beatles, The National, Johannes Brahms, Gabriel Kahane, etc. Basically a smorgasbord of classical, classic rock, and indie-ish stuff.
Favorite Authors: Bill Watterson, Umberto Eco, Jane Jacobs, Don DeLillo, T.S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Matt Yglesias
Favorite Sports Team: New York Giants. Wide Right was one of my first-ever memories... and Ray Handley was one of my second-ever.
Favorite Presidents: Teddy Roosevelt, John Quincy Adams, Jimmy Carter (obviously the Washington/Lincoln/FDR trio was
better than those three, but that's a boring answer).
Favorite Politicians: Rush Holt, John Hickenlooper, Earl Blumenauer, Michael Bloomberg, Antonio Villariagosa, Frank Lautenberg, Tammy Baldwin
Political Orientation: In UK terms, I'd preferably be a Lib Dem with some Green leanings. Though who am I kidding, Duverger's Law would force me to vote Labour. Strong liberal on the environment and social issues, monetary dove, technocratic, more centrist on labor and foreign policy but even there a smidge left of the USA average. My technocratic streak occasionally leads to iconoclasms where I support libertarian methods for green ends (such as taking an ax to things like anti-density zoning regulations and the mortgage interest deduction), but as an overall philosophy libertarianism is naive and dangerous hogwash.
Other interests/hobbies: public transportation, maps, art, Modernism, useless trivia, cocktail snobbery, strategy boardgames
In conclusion, I am basically
the perfect target audience for
this thing.
