Dating Women, Friends, Activity Partners

Mar 2005

Corvallis, Oregon

Hah!

http://profiles.friendster.com/paulsonj

Columbia Law, Stanford, Carleton College

Public Defender

Straight-ahead jazz, traveling, black & white movies, indoor gardening, chess, lost causes, fine dining, learning to cook, critical race theory. Also learning to mix drinks and tend bar, in case this whole "law thing" doesn't work out.

Pretty much anything by Kapuscinski, Garcia Marquez, Steinbeck, or Mark Twain. Also: The Black Jacobins (C.L.R. James); anything by Stephen Jay Gould; Miles: The Autobiography; In the Matter of Color: Race & the American Legal Process (Higginbotham).

Seven Samurai, Black Orpheus, City of God, Ronin, Sankofa, the Clint Eastwood westerns, Casablanca, The Battle of Algiers, Land and Freedom, Children of Men.

Coltrane, Mingus, Monk, Miles, Cassandra Wilson, Meshell Ndegeocello, Hugh Masekela, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Caetano Veloso, Chico Buarque, Fela Kuti, Youssou N'Dour, Salif Keita, Abdullah Ibrahim, Vinicius de Moraes, Oliver Mtukudzi, Zim Ngqawana, Common, Erykah Badu, The Roots, Fugees, Floetry, Khadja Nin, Peter Gabriel, Sinatra, Vusi Mahlasela, Nina Simone, Ethiopiques, Madredeus, Zola, Si*Se, Goapele.

Boston Legal, How I Met Your Mother, Family Guy, the new Battlestar Galactica (don't laugh), and whatever is on AMC

I'm a marxist trying to come to terms with the fact that I can't really live without the food and wine of the bourgeoisie. Especially the wine.

Unlike my friend Bukola, I have not yet seen the face of God.

I am a lawyer, but there are more than a few days in the office when I wish I was a fisherman instead. Or a gardener.

Assata Shakur, Albie Sachs, Mandela, and Fidel.

Also, non-lawyers.

Lawyers too, but only if they can sustain a conversation that doesn't involve their law firm.

And drinkers. I always like drinkers.