jKd Kramer Duffield

Uh hunh. Is that right?

Male, 30, Single
Interested In: Friends, Activity Partners
Member Since: May 2003
Location: Carrboro, NC
Hometown: Cabin John, Maryland
College: University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, Oberlin College
Company: Search for Common Ground, World Resources Institute, Run Against Bush, Dean for America
Last Login: 4 days
jKd's URL:
http://profiles.friendster.com/jkdickel

"For best results: 2 oz. Phillips Union blended whiskey 1/2 oz. sweet vermouth generous dash Angostura bitters Stir..."

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Schools:
Bannockburn Elementary, Attended 1985 - 1991, Class of 1991
Thomas W. Pyle Middle School, Attended 1991 - 1994, Class of 1994
Walt Whitman High, Attended 1994 - 1998, Class of 1998
College/University:
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, Attended 2006 - Present, Ph.D., School of Information and Library Science
Oberlin College, Attended 1998 - 2002, Class of 2002, Bachelor's Degree, Politics
Occupation:
Student/&c.
Affiliations:
Dean for America, Burgundy Center for Wildlife Studies
Hobbies and Interests:
etymology, fermentation of grains, ultimate frisbee, birds, museums, books, promotion of the general welfare, polymers, bitters, helping
Favorite Books:
most everything by - william gibson, jonathan lethem, jonathan carroll, jonathan franzen, neil gaiman, neal stephenson, alan moore, antonio lobo antunes, ursula le guin, hanif kureishi, frank miller, margaret atwood, j.m. coetzee. and i do love some salman rushdie, but man, he's also written some bad, bad books.
Favorite Movies:
before sunset, before sunrise, bulworth, the best of youth, waking life
Favorite Music:
self-help rock, anything with epic harmony, steve earle.
Favorite TV Shows:
'Battlestar Galactica, ' even tho I don't have a TV
About Me:
For best results:

2 oz. Phillips Union blended whiskey
1/2 oz. sweet vermouth
generous dash Angostura bitters

Stir with ice in shaker and strain into cocktail glass. Garnish with a cherry.

i like birds.

autumn is right in my wheelhouse;
but summer ain't bad -
and sweet iced tea
or whiskey
on the porch, in summer, sweating (you/iced tea/whiskey) is pretty great
Who I Want to Meet:
people who don't lie. this might seem simple, but -
lying
is just
lame.

please care about some shit.
please be trying to figure it out.

REPEAT - care about something, hopefully your fellow man.

and - for instance, if you work at a restaurant, and it's empty on a weekday afternoon, and someone comes in and asks, politely, if they can use the (unoccupied) bathroom? i can't even believe i have to say this, but - be a mensch and let 'em pee, m'kay?

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Molly
Posted
The Ptacek ladies will forever heart JKD!

Ben
Posted
JKDs never really single, as Kelli and I can attest to his mysterious disappearances that summer before BUG house. All of a sudden, JKD would slip away from our enchanting company into a strange automobile across the street, usually with a definitive grunt as to his expected whereabouts. I hope, on some level, its still the same...

Kelly
Posted
I heard that JKD was the new "it" boy. I have never been friends with the "it" boy. I feel cool by association. Thanks Jake for helping a friend climb the social ladder.

Dan
Posted
Given a choice between too many monkeys and not enough monkeys, JKD would choose correctly every time

Cat
Posted
Here's what happens when three worlds collide: I'm peeing in middle stall of the women's bathroom at Kramerbooks in Dupont Circle, Washington DC (for those of you not in the know, this is a bookstore that Jake's family owns). La, la, la, peeing, reading the graffiti on the stall wall and - oh my! Tiny print in the middle of the door reads, "JKD blows dead bears." Yikes! What kind of black hole is this? Clearly, whoever wrote that a) knows Jake, b) went to Oberlin between the years of 1999 and 2005 and thus understands the significance of "Tommy Yagoda blows dead bears", c) knows that Jake's parents own the store.

Weeks later, they did a paint job in the ladies room. No more graffiti, no more JKD reference.

Luke
Posted
You look like an extra from Fiddler on the Roof with that beard. And by that I mean, it is awesome.

Allison
Posted
You don't happen to own a hair-shirt, do you? Enjoy snackin on locusts and wild honey?

paul
Posted
seriously, who doesn't know jkd. would we still all call him jkd if he was president, like pres. jkd! cause seriously he could probably smooth talk his way in and no one would be the wiser. a man of many parts jkd gets my vote.

Michael
Posted
Jus member this- whin you stort ta
gettin them preggers, don't you come a
hollerin.

Tom
Posted
The thing about JKD is, that even though I don't
think he has had a job for longer than 4 months,
and has thus seen much of the world in the past
few years, when Dan Harsha was stuck in the DC
area for a year, I said to him, "Call JKD, he'll know
what to do." I don't know if he called, but if he had,
Jake would have had a really good idea of what to
do.

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