Kelly
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Time travel’s like visiting Paris. You can’t just read the guidebook, you’ve got to throw yourself in—Eat the food, use the wrong verbs, get charged double, and end up kissing complete strangers. Or is that just me?
Male
26 years old
Renton, WASHINGTON
United States
Last Login: 12/9/2008
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Kelly's Interests
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| General | Writing, books, movies, acting, public speaking, sketch comedy, comic books, religion, linguistics, history, Magic: The Gathering, tabletop roleplaying, science fiction, fantasy, alternate history, contra dancing, hiking, canoeing, skinny-dipping, rain, springtime, perfectly ripe pears, cats, Paris, travel, dogs, German, Russian, Japanese (if I ever get around to it), Romanian (ditto), World War I (see also: alternate history), long walks, running, racquetball, introspection, historical simulations, hitting people with foam weapons, good musicals, good conversations, chance encounters, serendipity, true human contact, intellectualism, philosophy, art, life, politics, tiny white flowers, and generally overthinking everything. | | Music | They Might Be Giants, Moxy Früvous, Talking Heads, Del the Funkee Homosapien, the Beatles, Weird Al, Bear McCreary, Greg Edmonson, Dashel Milligan, Rent, Ragtime, Jesus Christ Superstar, Les Miserables, Bright Eyes, Depeche Mode, Ok Go, the Old 97s, John Williams, Danny Elfman, Nightmare Before Christmas, Once More With Feeling (the Buffy musical, teehee), funk, jazz, blues, swing, Irish and other traditional/folk, Balkan, Fettes Brot, Ennio Moricone, Harvey Danger, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Radiohead (but mainly when other people cover their stuff), MC Hawking, Jim's Big Ego, Lounge Against the Machine, Bare Naked Ladies, Fiona Apple, Regina Spektor, and whatever other random stuff I come across. | | Movies | Primer, Serenity, Dead by Dawn 2, Closely Watched Trains, and others too numerous and varied to get into. Sometime soon I will make a complete list. | | Television | Firefly, Battlestar Galactica, The Daily Show, anything Star Trek because I'm still a sucker, Doctor Who, Torchwood, Brimstone, ExoSquad, the Simpsons (in some previous incarnation), Futurama, Family Guy, South Park, X-Files, the Lone Gunmen (sigh), Jeeves and Wooster, Fawlty Towers... I don't have cable anymore, and I've never been happier. | | Books | The Song of Ice and Fire (George R.R. Martin), Perdido Street Station / The Scar / Iron Council, (China Mieville), the Sandman comics (Neil Gaiman), Good Omens (Gaiman and Pratchett), the Hitchhikers and Dirk Gently books, as well as The Salmon of Doubt (Douglas Adams), most of the works of C.J. Cherryh (specifically the Chanur Saga, the Foreigner books, Wave Without a Shore, 40,000 in Gehenna, Sunfall, Visible Light, the Faded Sun trilogy, the Morgaine Cycle, Voyager in Night...), more Larry Niven than is really good for me, a decreasing amount of Harry Turtledove, an increasing amoung of Orson Scott Card (esp. Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus, the Ender Books (though I haven't read the various Shadow books yet), and the Tales of Alvin Maker), John Garth's Tolkien and the Great War, A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson, Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August and The Zimmerman Telegram, John Keegan's The Great War, Niall Ferguson's Virtual History, Stephen King's On Writing, Misery, and the Dark Tower books, Natalie Goldberg's Writing Down the Bones, Daniel Quinn's Ishmael, Dougal Dixon's After Man, Man After Man, and the New Dinosaurs, the tales of Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser by Fritz Leiber (and Catch That Zeppelin! is good times, too), World War Z by Max Brooks, Q Squared by Peter David, and definitely NOT Gibson and Sterling's The Difference Engine or Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men. NEW FAVORITE: Naomi Novik's Temeraire series, starting with His Majesty's Dragon. You have to read it--it's just that good. | | Heroes | Joss Whedon, George R.R. Martin, and a fellow named Bill Sutton. |
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Kelly's Details
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| Status: | Single | | Here for: | Networking, Friends | | Orientation: | Straight | | Body type: | 6' 0" | | Ethnicity: | White / Caucasian | | Zodiac Sign: | Aquarius | | Children: | Undecided | | Occupation: | Editor, writer |
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About me:
Language, art, and love.
That's the idea, anyway.
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Who I'd like to meet:
You!
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