About me
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Some tid bits
I grew up skiing in Telluride, Colorado but call Portland, Oregon home much of the time. I’ve lived in Thailand and various places in Mexico including Mazunte and Oaxaca, but I love Mexico City most of all.
My father is Chilean, and I have an ongoing interest in Latin America and learning Spanish. Favorite Spanish words so far: oujacala, cacahuate, mapache.
My cat is Huxley.
Claims to fame
In The Atlantic game Word Fugitives I got runner up for coining Sentropy. I’m still proud. (It’s halfway down the page.)
I helped paper maiche masks for the Blitzen Trapper video Black River Killer over beers in a cramped Portland apartment, indie rock style.
My carefully crafted plea for a last minute ticket to a sold out David Byrne show was seen on Craigslist by a nice person who gave me one front row center, for free.
I am distantly related to P.G. Wodehouse.
Reading in bars can be really nice. I tried to start a weekly, roaming, organized movement called Library Hours where bars could host the group on a night when it was usually slow. It met with much support and much scorn, and never really got off the ground because I moved away. I still think it should happen.
Life
I used to live in Portland, Oregon, where I bike commuted, attended all the greenie events, annually spent a week immersed in the Time Based Arts festival, went to loads of Literary Arts readings, and was a college student and then a hipster and then a young professional in the eco scene. I feel I did life in Portland very well for those 9 years, and took away from it a love of boutique culture, organic restaurants, cart food, fashion, innovation, and the idea that you should never work too far from where you play.
I’ve traveled quite a lot to places like Israel, Germany, Belgium, Croatia for a month by bike, Montenegro, Sarajevo, and Torino for the Winter Olympics.