age: 38 (Nov 02, 1974)
MEMBER SINCE: December 2011
occupation: Publicity/press
makes me sad: Excessive planning, work stress, bullshit pseudoscience and religious dogma,
body mods: Just scars from various minor injuries (like in that Jaws scene).
gets me hot: Dominant ladies, spontaneity, seriousness
i lost my virginity: Basically on a swing in a playing field.
crush: Veronica Belmont
makes me happy: Stories about trolls etc, sunsets, lunar eclipses, birds in my garden, happy drunkenness, inspirational scientists/skeptics, tabletop wargaming.
fantasy: Being able to transform people into cuddly animal versions of themselves. Or into a goldfish in a smashable bowl if I don't like them!
heroes: I genuinely love actor Bruce Campbell (Evil Dead, Burn Notice etc), Charles Bukowski (poet) and powerful skeptical people like the late Christopher Hitchens. A personal hero is still my old English A Level teacher Malcolm R, who taught me that I could
into: Ideas, fantasy and science
sign: Astrology is probably bollocks.
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That's the nightmare of the web.
This is an amazing article about the celebrity mind-trap, how social media turns you into an observed person etc
http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/hi-haters/
Some random segments:
"Every time you tag anything or respond to anything or link to anything, you’re informing on your friends.”
"Britney Spears' meltdown somehow dignifies our relative obscurity. Unlike Britney, of course, we don’t need constant attention; we don’t depend on the media to reflect back to us the meaning of what we do. With our concern for her mental health as an alibi, we can enjoy the spectacle of her losing her mind from too much social recognition — recognition being in somewhat short supply for the rest of us."
"The ideological enthusiasm for “participation” disguises the emptying out of privacy, and the inescapable scrutiny and social documentation ushers in “self-surveillance” — a grimmer way of describing online self-fashioning or identity construction."