About Me

  • About Me: an openly gay atheist who is balancing the trials of being an inner-city high school math teacher with the trials of a first-time author. I wrote the book "Happily Godless: A Young Adult's Guide to Atheism", which you can buy at fine bookstores and websites everywhere.

Television

  • Favorite Shows: Friday Night Lights, Dexter, Supernatural
  • Favorite Channels: I generally avoid tv, except for a few shows.
  • Favorite Reruns: I can't stand reruns of any kind.
  • Most Addictive Show: I don't get addicted to tv
  • Favorite Late Night Talk Show: I sometimes watch Letterman, but talk shows are stupid
  • Favorite Episode: you're kidding me.
  • Characters you relate to: roflmao
  • Favorite Theme Song: I ususally fast forward through theme songs. Just give me the show, dammit. OK, except for Bleach. And Friday Night Lights.
  • Show I Secretly Watch: If it was a secret, why would I name it here?
  • Show I wished wasn't cancelled: Whatever. Everything dies.

Video Games

  • Consoles: xbox 360, PS3
  • Gaming Alias: xbox live - nothing gold

College

  • School Name: Kansas State University
  • Class of: 2000
  • Attended: 1989 - 2000
  • Degree type: Masters
  • Major(s): B.S. in physics, M.S. in student personnel
  • Minor(s): philosophy
  • Organizations: Queers and Allies

Movies

  • Favorite Movies: Empire of the Sun, Mysterious Skin, Mulholland Drive, Nowhere, all of the Alien movies, Naked Lunch, Requiem for a Dream, I'm Not Scared, Better Off Dead,The Cook the Thief His Wife and Her Lover... again, too many to enumerate.
  • Favorite Actors: Christian Bale, Parker Posey, Cilian Murphy,
  • Favorite Directors: David Lynch, Peter Greenaway, Darren Aronofsky, David Fincher, Spielberg, Almodovar
  • Favorite Genre: splatter gore, documentaries, horror - both good and bad, science fiction
  • Movie Quotes I say all the time: "Sorry we blew up your mom, Ricky." - from Better Off Dead.

Books

  • Favorite Books: The Stranger, The Plague, Cryptonomicon... damn, I give up. It's pointless to ask me that question.
  • Favorite Authors: Michael Shermer, Bret Easton Ellis, early Anne Rice, Neil Stephenson... this one's pointless, too.
  • Favorite Genres: Eastern Religion, occult studies, history of Christianity, horror fiction, science fiction, history, science

More About Me

  • Nicknames: "The guy that thinks too much"
  • Nationality: American (French and Bohemian descent)
  • Religion: atheist
  • Heroes: none. Really.
  • Interests: philosophy, occult studies, horror movies, video games
  • Expertise: I'm a math teacher with years of experience in meditation and studies of occult/religious systems
  • Occupation: umm, math teacher.
  • Industry: Education, duh.