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Interested In:
Friends
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Member Since:
Jun 2003
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Hometown:
Hillside, NJ
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Company:
www.palantetech.com
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Jack's URL:
http://profiles.friendster.com/jerseyjack
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Schools:
Mt. St. Mary Academy (High Sch, Attended 1994 - 1998, Class of 1998
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College/University:
Swarthmore College, Attended 1998 - 2002, Class of 2002, Bachelor's Degree, English Lit & Women's Studies
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Occupation:
professional nerd (of the tech variety)
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Affiliations:
Sylvia Rivera Law Project (www.srlp.org)
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What I enjoy doing:
POC/QPOC/queer/genderqueer/trans community/organizing/activism, cutting down on my overuse of slashes, fighting gentrification and occupation (Puerto Rico/Palestine/Ireland/everywhere), beethoven, piano, dogs (especially bessie), throwing big ol' house parties, iPod DJing, blogging, Jersey pride, drinking good beer and whiskey, old-fashioned Irish pubs, finding the money and time to travel more, tattoo acquisition, doing a mean Mo imitation (a la DTWOF)
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Favorite Books:
Currently reading: The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Díaz. Faves: Jeanette Winterson (esp. The Passion & Written on the Body), Audre Lorde's writings, Einstein's Dreams, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Drown (Junot Díaz), Harry Potter, poetry (Lorde, TS Eliot, Neruda, Cummings, June Jordan, Olga Broumas, Yeats, etc), comic books (Preacher, DMZ, Invisibles, Hellblazer), much, much more...
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Favorite Movies:
Last in a theater: No Country For Old Men, superb! Faves: Immortal Beloved, Donnie Darko, Brokeback Mountain, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Secretary, Amelie, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Todo Sobre Mi Madre, Volver and most other Almodovar, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Clerks, Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
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Favorite Music:
Beethoven, most classical, opera, hip-hop, reggaeton, Latino music (esp merengue, plena, son, son jarocho), classic rock, blues, jazz, Irish music, my party playlists, Sleater-Kinney, Lila Downs, Missy Elliott, Mos Def, Radiohead, Rufus Wainwright, Jeff Buckley, Leonard Bernstein
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Favorite TV Shows:
Jeopardy!, Arrested Development, The Office, Battlestar Galactica
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Zodiac Sign:
Sagittarius
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About Me:
Soy boricua. I'm genderqueer. I'm a good old-fashioned butch. I revel in nerdiness and geekiness of all sorts. Fall is my favorite season. I love house parties that involve a lot of dancing and debauchery, especially when I'm the DJ. I work best between the hours of 12am and 5am. I like fast wheeled things, especially if they're human powered - gotta learn to skateboard next. I'm a lapsed poet, a lapsed composer & pianist, and I'd like to stop lapsing. I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
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Who I Want to Meet:
More queer, trans and genderqueer folks, women, and/or people of color who are floating around in the white straight dude sea of computer nerddom and general geekdom.
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in the history of my whole entire life yes
she is dancing. Just thinking about it
makes me melt.
Andover, Mass. We bonded over Nelly
Furtado, melancholia, literature and
stories about past relationship drama.
And though there is much about
Andover that I regret - meeting Jack is
not one of them. He is one of the nicest,
most together peeps (and throws a kick
ass party) i know and i am ecstatic that
we finally live in the same zip code.
is younger than me, and yet, she
manages to have her shit together
better than II do now and than I will ever
have. When I'm raising ill-behaved
children and still trying to "find myself"
through ill-advised road trips and the
occasional drug-induced spirit journey,
Jack will be changing the world with her
artistic and technical skill, still looking
sharp in a pair of ankle-garters and a
close hair-cut, I'm sure.
with Jack everyday.
these "hungry hungry hippos"?
strange way of turning over and inside itself
to bring wonderful people into your life.