CURRENT MISSION

This is awkward.

ABOUT ME

I recently finished a Ph.D in philosophy at a school in Pittsburgh, and I currently teach at Kent State University. I live on the eastside of Cleveland and go to see the Cleveland Orchestra or wander through the art museums and galleries quite often.

PHILOSOPHY

I am not answering this question. But if you ask, I will certainly tell you.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I stayed with some cool people in Texas when I was there during a philosophy conference.

Interests

Books, Music, Movies, walking, riding my bike, drinking orange juice, learning foreign languages, hearing great stories, driking delicious beer, writing complex arguments in overly verbose and purple language, etc.

• arts
• writing
• books
• beer
• fitness
• walking
• drinking
• movies
• music
• cycling
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Phillip Glass, A silver Mt. Zion, American Analog Set, THe Books, Animal Collective, ARcade Fire, Dirty Three, Bach, Glenn GOuld John Zorn, THe Boredoms, Melt Banana, Bell Orchestre, Bill Evans, Charlie Wise, TOm Waits, BEATALLICA, At the Drive-In, anything on Load records, anything on Constellation Records, anything by Mike Patton, etc., etc.Goddard, Lars Van Trier, Fellini, Roberto Rossellini, Orson Welles, Truffaut, David Lynch, Almodovar, Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, Proust, Negri, D.W.Smith, Lyotard, John Sallis, Heidegger, Husserl, SPinoza, Micheal Chabon, Kerouac, Hofstadtler, Nietzsche, Hemmingway, Thoreau, Plato, Faulkner, Dellilo, Barthes, Wittgenstein, Doestoyevsky, Mark Strand, Whitman, Ezra Pound, etc., etc.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I saw a car that had a Presidential fitness award winner sticker on the rear windshield. Then, as I passed the car, I noticed that there were two really obese people smoking cigarettes and eating McDonalds in the car. This made sense to me.

Teach, Learn, Share

The desire to learn and grow intellectually but never dogmatically.