More About Jonathan
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Schools (Other):
South Burlington High School, Lyndon State College, University of Colorado, Portland State University
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Occupation:
word wrangler, grad student
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Affiliations:
www.masaladose.com
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Hobbies and Interests:
writing, nutrition, juicing fruits and vegetables with my kick-ass Omega 4000, zen, science, politics, birds, French, getting my passport stamped, English usage and abusage, kindness, food politics
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Favorite Books:
The Sane Society, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Peace Is Every Step, My Cousin My Gastroenterologist, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
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Favorite Movies:
Blue Velvet, Contempt, Greed, Passage a l'Acte, Brazil, Box of Moonlight, I Am Cuba, Mulholland Drive, Danger: Diabolik, Dr. Strangelove, Brazil, Raising Arizona, Henry Fool, Taxi Driver, Notorious, Vertigo, anything written by Charlie Kaufman
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Favorite Music:
Zappa, Grant Green, MMW, Kruder & Dorfmeister and other ambient music for chilling out and feeling sophisticated, Otis Taylor, Eric Dolphy, Cibo Matto, Nick Drake, Radiohead, Panjabi MC
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Favorite TV Shows:
Newshour with Jim Lehrer, C-SPAN, public-access weirdness, Extreme Makeover (morbid fascination)
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Zodiac Sign:
Scorpio
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About Me:
One time a camel threw me.
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Who I Want to Meet:
The compassionate. The curious.
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Testimonials and Comments for Jonathan
young bullfighter from hemingway's the
sun also rises. too cool for the bulls,
too cool for the town whore.
get it, 'cause Jon is cool, and your
not. He's got all the dirt on Reagan. He
will express mild surprise at your more
ridiculous tendencies, but will
nontheless engage you as if you weren't
crazy. He knows a bunch of law stuff.
"Jon" back then) showed up at my bedroom window
at 3 in the morning and insisted that I accompany
him on the 2 hour drive to Vermont's Northeast
Kingdom so that he could profess his love to a
certain red-headed crush/obsession of his. I
admired his spontaneity and pure emotion, though
now that I write about it, it sounds kind of creepy.
You'll have to trust me, it wasn't. It was really
sweet. We were very tired.
We were guests at his cute house the
other night and afterwards my husband
said to me, "is he SINGLE?." It's not
that we want to date him ourselves, but
that he is so very very date-able. Then
we speculated about whether he was
straight or not based on the fact that
his pad was so fucking swell (like an HG
TV "after" is what I called it) -- which
just proves two things: 1) we should get
out more often rather than basing our
intepretation of people's sexuality on
stereotypes we see on TiVo; 2) I don't
actually know Spine THAT well -- but I
know him well enough to want to know him
better, and that's what you'll say, too.
He has nice manners, too, which deserves
its own paragraph.
Btw: did you read that little news story
today in the NYT about the attorneys and
their awful writing? (I saw it in the
NYT, but it's one of those cutesy
stories that will probably make the
media rounds). One example was pretty
funny, where the judge admonished the
attny for using ALL CAPS and EXCLAMATION
POINTS!! ("WRONG!!!" was my favorite
quote). Well, from what I understand,
Spine is in the business of seeing that
this doesn't happen more often. This
makes him a kind of hero.
daredevil he-man, a thoughtful,
inquisitive Bhuddist and a sexy
rockstar you would get Jonathan. Look
out Portland OR because this thing is
unpredictable, inexplicable and
unstoppable. Holy jeez! Jon was the
funniest guy in Burlington back in the
80s and he gets twice as funny every 14
minutes. Don't look him straight in
the eye. Good luck, ladies.
EVER. However, he is important to me
because he will commiserate with me
about poor grammar, punctuation, or odd
capitalization in intraoffice e-mails.
We have other, less Dilbertesque
interactions, too, which are also
enjoyable. Sometimes he sings. He has a
surprisingly deep singing voice. My
mother calls him Leon Spinks, and none
of us know why. Thank you, Spine.
smartest, most interesting people I
know. He taught me how to read and
play pool. That was so nice of him! I
love him so. He's like a brother to
me.
Funny? Check. Good-looking? Check.
Motivated, kind, conscientious,
talented? Check, check, check and
check. Now if he only stopped starting
sentences with "When I was in France....
powder blue tuxedo & he speaks French
like none other.
believe freakin' is a Yiddish term.
You'll have to ask him. He'll know -
he's scary smart.