William Young

Wheat Ridge High School, U.Maine

They Might Be Giants, Obscure Etymology, Espresso

One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Joy of Yiddish, Love in the Time of Cholera, Name of the Rose

Brazil, The Iron Giant, Sanjiro, Yojimbo, True Stories, Nightmare Before Christmas

They Might Be Giants, Kate Bush, Robyn Hitchcock, Magnetic Fields, Joe Jackson, David Byrne, Tom Waits, Bauhaus, Spike Jones, Peter Gabriel, Elvis Costello, The The, Steely Dan, Soul Coughing, Laurie Anderson, The Residents, Lou Reed, Michael Penn

Twitch City, Fishing with John, Alive from Off-Center, Inside the Actors Studio, FLCL, Moonlighting, Pinky and the Brain, News Radio, Samurai Jack, Nightmare Ned, Kids in the Hall, Red Dwarf

Capricorn

When I grow up, I want to be just like Jar-Jar Binks.

I like Twizzlers, the Alligator Bop, and my favorite drama movie is "Bloodsucking Freaks That Dress Just Like Your Mama".

..wait, those aren't true at all!

I'm a big fan of armchair theology and etymology; doubly-so for the etymology of the profane (EG: What's the origin of that horrible name that taxi-cab driver just called you?). Some of my favorites of that latter group include one that stems from Boadicea, and another that stems from a Yiddish term comparable to "My widdle schnookums".

I'm also insanely fond of espresso, custard, eggnog, and anything that manages to combine two of those three together.

If there were a Political View section above, it'd probably be "Zen Socialist". And for a theoretical Philosophical View section? That'd be "Romantic"; Not as in carriage rides and roses, but the 18th century close cousin to Transcendentalist (both of which are cousins to Gothic, surprisingly enough); Blake, Byron, Yeats and Keats and all that.

I regularly use the word "regularly", yet I loathe the way I say it. For some reason, I've yet to ween myself onto using "often" or "routinely", depending upon context (and the former lends itself to the Pirates of Penzance "often/orphan" joke, for bonus points).

As a child, I had the childhood dream of a general job in foodservice. The monkey's paw parable came true, and it is now an albatross about my neck (Two! Two! Two literary allusions for the price of one!)

I'm a little more fond of the Fibonacci sequence and ramifications thereof than anyone should really be.

I use the term "thereof" in regular conversation. Kind've sad, no?

One can ferret up more at http://youngwilliam.livejournal.com !

Folks I know would be just jim-dandy to meet, be it folks who've wandered off from Bangor or folks whom I wandered off from when I left Denver (and before that, Fairbanks Alaska, but that's doubtful).

Mind, folks I -don't- know are hunky-dory, too.