Q&A

What I'm Currently Addicted To...

UToob, Italian coffee, procrastination

This Is Annoying Me...

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This Is Making Me Worry...

Even big oil gushers in the Gulf don't make me worry anymore.

This Is Bringing Me Joy...

Joy is a big word for celibacy.

I'm Running From...

(Table) sugar/High-fructose corn syrup. See the vids on this newest "truth": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM

This Is Helping Me Create...

memento mori

This Is Making Me Think - Hard...

Illy, Lavazza, Kimbo, Mauro.

This Makes My Teeth Itch

Dog antibiotics (anaphylaxis).

American politics.

Can't Do Without

dogs, reading material, poetry, music, cumin, dogs

Favorite Voices

Boy sopranos.

Mina. Ruggeri. Daniele Magro. Giuliano Rassu.

Hudson Talbott.

My Most Awkward Moment

I'd rather not.

My Secret Ambition

To read everything & grow up in Italy.

I'm Known For...

Practicing fringe medicine.

My Current Project

Medical Informatics.

Antonio Gramsci.

Marcel Proust.

Consciousness.

Animal Cognition.

Missing Bliss.

Ezra Pound (imageism not fascism).

Mindfulness.

My Greatest Achievement

Probably medical school, which required controlling my rapidly fluctuating attention and doing it every hour of every day for several years.

My Biggest Regret

Not moving to Italy when I was twenty.

I Truly Respect

Gautama Buddha (the most succint, brilliant, cogent, meaningful analysis of human existence ever) IMHO

How I Pay For This Wardrobe

Use the same one for twenty years

Blocks I've Been Around

34th and Dumbarton

Things That Really Happened

All of it really happened, or it didn't, or it happened a different way, but it is not now.

Where I'd Like To Be 10 Years From Now

In Italy, reading everything.

Why True/Slant

Laurie Essig.