M Otis

English Teacher

Travel, writing, computery stuff, motorcycles, movies, reading, playing guitar, singing, lots of other stuff

Aristophanes, Rabelais, Voltaire, Swift, Cervantes, Wilde, Twain, Wodehouse, Robert Graves, Philip Roth, Will Self, GRANTA, Philip K. Dick, Robert Heinlein, Iain Banks, Phillip Jose Farmer, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nikolai Gogol, Sun Tzu, Sir James Frazer

Kubrick, Hitchcock, Cohen Bros., Scorsese, Bergman, Clint Eastwood, Pedro Almodovar, whoever it was that made FIGHT CLUB, and many others.

Pixies, Brubeck, Howlin' Wolf, Iggy, Plastic Bertrand, Phish, X, Perez Prado, TMBG, Ween, Tchaikovsky, White Stripes, Henry Cow, Merle Haggard, Devo, Damned, Patsy Cline, Miles Davis, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Van de Graaf Generator, Gong, Wire, Jack Bruce

I only own a TV so that I can watch movies... although I do watch South Park on my computer occasionally.

I'm an English teacher currently living in Yinchuan,
capital of the Ninxia Autonomous Region in the People's
Republic of China. Before I came to China, I spent a year
in Moscow, Russia. On the side, I write short stories,
poetry, abortive novels, smarty-man online tauntery, and
occasional updates to my journal
(http://www.journalscape.com/motis). Before
I became an English teacher, I worked as a Systems
Administrator, a long-haul trucker, an aircraft mechanic, a
support technician, a dishwasher, a signmaker, a movie
extra, a talent scout, an Emergency Medical Technician, a
bouncer, an editor, etc. etc. ad infinitum ad nauseum.
I've had so many different jobs that I can't even remember
them all... but my real work and my first love is
literature.

I am single, and I do like to seXor with the gurlz, but I'm
living in China at the moment. Unless you want to come over
here and learn how to be an English teacher, the whole
dating thing is probably out of the question. Friends are
good, but if you're pro-Bush, a Christian who likes to talk
about it, or politically correct to the extent of thinking
that I should feel guilty for having white skin and a
penis, then please just leave me alone.
If you want to travel and teach English, I'll be glad to
help you get started. Do it right, and it can be the
adventure of a lifetime. Do it wrong, and it can also be
the adventure of a lifetime, though not in the way you
intended. Did you know that in Russian, the
word 'adventurer' carries seriously negative connotations?