Just looking around

Jan 2004

Atlanta

Academe

http://profiles.friendster.com/bgordon

Pace Academy, Attended 1992 - 1999, Class of 1992

Northwestern University, Attended 1999 - 2003, Class of 2003, Bachelor's Degree, English

Graduate Student to the stars

International Zionist Conspiracy, W.A.S.T.E, Orange County Liberation Front

Jewfros, thrift stores, ironic distance, Hopleaf, boggle, charles shaw, knitting, karaoke, vegetarianism, my ipod, ex-pat fantasies, penguins, umlauts, presentpanic, midnight shopping sprees on amazon, finals fatigue (yet again . . . and again), stealing all of my best friendster ideas from michelle "hot sauce" neely, the grad student reading room at Langson, Stephen Colbert's speech at the Whitehouse Correspondent's Dinner, Lionel Trilling, summer "vacation"

Henry James: where have you been all my life?

The Big Lebowski, Office Space, Wet Hot American Summer, Moulin Rouge, Ghost World, Annie Hall, Dazed and Confused, High Fidelity, Kicking and Screaming (the Baumbach one), Before Sunrise/Sunset, Battle of Algiers, Godfather I & II, Chinatown, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, 24 Hour Party People, Spinal Tap, His Girl Friday, Rosemary's Baby, Cabaret, Junebug

Sleater Kinney, Belle & Sebastian, David Bowie, New Pornographers, A.C. Newman, The Shins, Elliott Smith, Elastica, Le Tigre, Arcade Fire, Bjork, Blondie, Stone Roses, Pulp, Spoon, that one good Hole album, the Madonna song that samples Abba

Twin Peaks, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Gilmore Girls, Six Feet Under, Sopranos, Freaks and Geeks, Veronica Mars, Daily Show, and uh . . . Battlestar Galactica

My current goal in life is to be a Jeopardy! contestant. My only obstacle is the lack of a telegenic autobiographical anecdote that Alex Trebek can ask me about during the "meet and greet" section. If anyone wants to lend me one of theirs, I'd be forever grateful.

members of the Algonquin Round Table