Yes, a thread for the INTROZ

[arize]

I thought maybe we wouldn't need this but looking over the group I'm thinking that its a good idea. :)

here, let me pose some questions for everyone to answer just to SET IT OFF :D

we already know your name

1. Where (geographically) did your parents meet?
2. What was the last meal you cooked?
3. Do you think having a black (and)or female president will actually help? why? how?
4. What are some things you identify with that you'd like to share? (eg, profession, hobby, race, political ideology, sexual orientation - share the one's that are important to you.)

[grouchosuave]

1. Santa Barbara, at a Christian college.
2. some White Cheddar Mac and Cheese with polish sausage before I went to the bar last night, now I am making some restorative pancakes with eggs and coffee. I see jambalaya in my near future.
3. No president helps, voting is a cvarnival of false alternatives, a diversion and release valve for thouroughly justified outrage. I stay focused on getting rid of the whole system. Voting certainly doen't aid any people's movements no matter what compromised rationale might seem relevant. Speech over. or has it just begun . . . bwahahahaha
4. Maybe some other time I'll answer this question; I am truly tired of endlessly thinking about myself. The more I can step outside my own skin these days the better.

[Klaatu]

1. In some nightclub in the Midwest (not sure of the specific location, probably Chicago). My dad was a drummer and my mom was a vocalist.
2. Steak with wilted spinach and pine nuts.
3. The current state of American politics is so fucked that I trust absolutle no one, regardless of race or gender, in either of the two party systems. I probably will vote for Paul being as I'm a fairly staunch Libertarian and he actually seems to be a legitimate believer.
4. I'm a professional technologist, and that consumes a big part of my life. I'm rather quite political, although not quite to the extent of Arize.

[arize]

ok, i'll go. :)

1. My parents met in some conservatory or church or something in boston. My dad, fresh off the plane from Hawaii, going to MIT to eventually get his doctorate in physics, was playing guitar, solo, in a performance of some kind of classical music. my mom clapped between movements which you're not supposed to do.

2. it was a kind of warm salad thing with the following ingredients:
Salmon, portobello, garlic, olive oil, red onion, red yellow & orange bell peppers, purple kale.

3. this was never a democracy. the state is organized to maintain the power of those who benefit most from it and set it up to protect themselves. it doesn't matter who is president. the needs of the whole system are what drive politics, not the faces they put on it as "leadership".

4. lets see, i often identify as the following things, depending on the context:
artist, pilates teacher, muralist, activist, left of most people i meet, mixed race, quasi computer geek, internet addict, foodie, organizer, music obsessed.... i'm sure there's more....

[ultra low frequency]

1. my parents met in Tennessee...he was a coal miner and she was a black woman...at least that is what i'm told...i am the youngest of 4 and 52 now so do the math...a long long time ago...was when they met...
2. i didn't cook...my woman cooked for me...it was good...i ate it and thanked her for it...tho i do not know what it was...
3. yes i think having a black or female president will help...but they will get shot or otherwise killed...i refer you to the eddie murphy skit "the first black president"...
4. i am a black male poet that has this crazy thing for white women...par so far...i work making things that go boom for the military industrial complex...i hate politicians and think they should all die...and i prefer masturbation to all forms of sex because it is the one that is least likely to disappoint...

[Jai]

1. Somewhere in Los Angeles on a blind date
2. Can't remember, haven't cooked since my sister moved back in
3. They can't do any worse then who we have now
4. Me being Gay, i just came out 2 years ago right after i turned 50, some people want to believe it's a midlife crisis, but i see it as FINALLY being who i truly am. My mom asked the question: Who told you that?, a classic line if i say so myself, she actually thought someone had to tell me i'm gay. I also identify with my poetry and erotic stories, i can't write anything i don't feel in my heart, every line i've ever wrote and continue to write comes from my heart!

[wildapache]

1 - in Texas

2 - sea bass

3 - depends on the canditate

4. libertarian

[grouchosuave]

libertarian or libertine, wild?

[Brian]

1. My parents met in Detroit on the job at a nursing home.
2. Whole wheat spaghetti in Pesto sauce with seasoned ground beef.
3. It doesn't matter who's president. The state is the problem. But rather than envisioning something sinister, its more like the state is trapped by its own bloatedness. So many years of fulfilling the so-called "manifest destiny of America", fucking over other cultures in its wake, its now become a victim of its own "success", complete with all of the trappings such success has to offer. No, the state doesn't continue because it wants to, it continues because it has to. The word I think that describes that sorry disposition is called a bureaucracy.
4. Is there any one thing that I identify myself with? Should there be? Such identification would be akin to finding a definition of who I am and I've been trying for years - decades - to do that. No, like a definition, I identify with a vast many things, some of which are contradictory. I wouldn't have it any other way.

[arize]

what would be some of what you personally identify with?
fear not.
in here, you are considered a complex, multifaceted person until you prove otherwise.

[Brian]

Thats just it. I have a close personal acquaintance with Enigma. Its the question that drives me. If I were to tattoo a symbol on myself it would be this: ?

I'm not trying to be a complex, multifaceted person - it just happens. Hell some days I wish I was simple. Someone who could just enjoy it and not ask questions, ya know?

I feel that I'm really Wednesday's child.

[arize]

uh, don't pick one thing. pick many. dude. its a question to tell us a bit about yourself. i could list some things for you but maybe you wouldn't really like that. say you meet someone at a bar and they ask you, "so, what do you do?"

being wednesday's child is not a bad place to start.
enigmatic. yes, this is also an identity.
don't make it harder than it is, oh cardinal air in the 8th house guy. : P

[Klaatu]

I fix stuff, occasionally compulsively so.
I have been known to write on occasion, although I haven’t been doing so lately due to a combination of depression related lethargy, and attempts to keep myself too busy to be depressed.
I’m pretty complex, although I’m seldom viewed as multifaceted. I’m more of an onion than a gem.