Dan
Dan Leonidas
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"Number one: I live in my momma house."
Male
27 years old
Saranac Lake, New York
United States
Last Login: 12/27/2009
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Dan's Interests
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| General | I enjoy running, reading, writing, and rocking. | | Music | In no particular order: Jawbreaker, Against Me!, Screeching Weasel, Ben Weasel, The Bouncing Souls, Jets to Brazil, The Jealous Sound, Knapsack, Lifetime, The Forecast, Kid Dynamite, None More Black, LaGrecia, The Loved Ones, The Lawrence Arms, The Broadways, The Honor System, Hot Water Music, Face to Face, Moneen, The Akaline Trio, The Beastie Boys, Millencolin, The Beatles, John Lennon, Iron Maiden, Iron Chic, The Who, The Ataris, The Copyrights, Lucero, Rivethead, Less Than Jake, The Parasites, Saves the Day, Chuck Ragan, Jimmy Eat World, The Get Up Kids, Shook Ones, The Falcon, Street Dogs, Tuesday, Dan Padilla, Johnny Cash, Landmines, Avail, The Evens, Lagwagon, NOFX, Rise Against, Green Day, The Vandals, Descendents, Mike Park, Skankin' Pickle, Goodbye Harry, Blink 182, Dillinger Four, Boys Night Out, Brand New, Cobra Skulls, The Ramones, The Mr. T Experience, The Queers, Dead to Me, Dear Landlord, Thrice, Hey Mercedes, Blackpool Lights, Solea, The Groodys, Gunmoll, ALL, Every Time I Die, Nerf Herder, Avoid One Thing, Monday Mourning, Reel Big Fish, Slapstick, The Presidents of the United States of America, Weezer, In the Red, The Ergs, Fenix TX, The Riverdales, The Methadones, Teenage Bottlerocket, Sludgeworth, The Riot Before, Radon, Ann Beretta, Belvedere, The Arrivals, The Movielife, The Suicide Machines, Grade, Bigwig, The Marked Men, Hi-Fi Hand Grenades, The Exit, Piebald, Guttermouth, Fugazi, Texas is the Reason, The Merkurs, Ringers, Republic of Letters, Mike Hale, The Gaslight Anthem, Nothington, many others. | | Movies | Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead (1978 and 2004), Day of the Dead, Land of the Dead, Return of the Living Dead, Return of the Living Dead II, Zombie, Shaun of the Dead, 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later, Burial Ground: The Nights of Terror, and most other films featuring zombies, walking dead flesheaters, and related ghouls and beasts. Also: Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill Vol. 1 and 2, Death Proof, Planet Terror, From Dusk Til Dawn, Near Dark, The Dark Knight, Alien, Aliens, the Back to the Future trilogy, the Indiana Jones quadrilogy, Cabin Fever, Hostel, Hostel Part II, Dead Presidents, The Butterfly Effect, Running Scared, John Carpenter's The Fog, John Carpenter's The Thing, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, The Mist, Knocked Up, Superbad, the 40-Year-Old Virgin, The Killer, Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, Grandma's Boy, many others. | | Television | It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Mystery Science Theater 3000, South Park, Prison Break, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Shin Chan, Family Guy, The Simpsons, Arrested Development, Seinfield, Best Week Ever, Grounded For Life, Frisky Dingo, Breaking Bad | | Books | The work of: Stephen King (everything he's ever written, but especially The Dark Tower Cycle), Dean Koontz (especially "From the Corner of His Eye" and "Life Expectancy"), David Sedaris, Philip Lopate, Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, John Steinbeck, Jack McDevitt, Richard Adams, Frank Herbert, Brian Herbert, Isaac Asimov, Bram Stoker, Tobias Wolff, Arthur C. Clarke, John Irving, Kurt Vonnegut, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, George Orwell (his essays, in particular), Dave Eggers, Sarah Vowell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Scott Smith, Chuck Palahniuk, Chuck Klosterman, Clive Barker, Cormac McCarthy, Ben Weasel, Ray Bradbury, Robert A. Heinlein, Robert Penn Warren, Marion Winik, Megan Daum, Peter Straub, Bentley Little, Augusten Burroughs, J.K. Rowling, Carl Hiaasen, Geoffrey Wolff, Frank Portman, Chris Ware, David Rakoff, Alan Moore, Brad Listi, many others. | | Heroes | I ain't got time for heroes. |
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Jawbreaker, Stephen King Fanatics, .The Dark Tower., Just Creative Non-Fiction, George A. Romero
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Dan's Details
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| Status: | Single | | Here for: | Networking, Friends | | Orientation: | Straight | | Hometown: | Saranac Lake, NY | | Ethnicity: | White / Caucasian | | Zodiac Sign: | Scorpio | | Education: | Grad / professional school | | Occupation: | writer, student, teacher, lifeguard, waiter |
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Dan's Schools
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Ohio State University-Main Campus
Columbus, OH
Graduated: 2009
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Master's Degree
Major: Creative Writing
Clubs: The Journal (Associate Nonfiction Editor)
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2006 to 2009 |
St Lawrence University
Canton,New York
Graduated: 2005
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: English (creative writing), Psychology
Greek:
Phi Beta Kappa
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2001 to 2005 |
Saranac Lake Shs
Saranac Lake,New York
Graduated: 2001
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
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1997 to 2001 |
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Dan's Networking
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Publishing - Writer - Columnist
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I write a weekly humor column called "The Shallow Observer" for Denton Publications, which puts out several newspapers in eastern New York and western Vermont.
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Dan's Companies
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Denton Publications
Elizabethtown, NY US
Columnist
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7/08-Present
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The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH US
Graduate Teaching Associate
Dept. of English
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8/06-6/09
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The Adirondack Daily Enterprise
Saranac Lake, NY US
Intern/Staff Writer
Editorial
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5/05-9/05
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About me:
Oh, hello--I didn't see you there. I suppose you'd like to know a little bit "about me," right? Well, you've come to the appropriate place! I recently received an MFA in creative writing from The Ohio State University, where I taught various undergraduate writing courses and served as Associate Nonfiction Editor for The Journal, OSU's award-winning biannual literary magazine. I currently write a weekly humor column called The Shallow Observer for Denton Publications, which puts out several newspapers in eastern New York and western Vermont. I also post random, occasionally entertaining, tidbits at twitter.com/danleonidas and facebook.com/danleonidas. But enough "about me"--what "about you"?
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