age: 52 (Apr 15, 1956)

MEMBER SINCE: January 2008

occupation: Editorial consultant. ``Business! Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were all my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!

gets me hot: beautiful women (most women, that is, excluding Ann Coulter)

sign: Fire

body mods: piercings

stats: Average-height homo sapiens sapiens striving to lose more body fat

into: Everything that works.

heroes: My mother and father,Avalokiteshvara,Sakyamuni,Joe Strummer,Namjal Rinpoche,Tara,Steve Biko,Jane Goodall,Pablo Neruda,J. Garcia Lorca,Molly Bloom,George Sand,William Wallace,Robert Burns,James Joyce,Alice Munro,Colette,Jose Saramago,Richard Yates

crush: Flux. She appreciates an amazing usquebaugh that many people cannot: Lagavulin. She has a lovely, expressve face and a gorgeous, natural body. Her taste in literature seduced me.

i lost my virginity: Me, too!

makes me sad: The prevailing North American ethos.

makes me happy: 1. The absence of suffering 2. Love 3. Love