From: ap.1680@cupid.sai.com
Subject: Palo Alto guy
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Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 15:25:10 GMT
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(Wednesday evening, Palo Alto, SWM, 30)

Looking for one woman of substance...

Just got back from travelling and I have that all-powerful "man this
world is so cool and what the hell am I sitting here for" air, so I
might as well take advantage of it and write this ad:

I'm cynically hoping that they lay me off so I can get back out and
travel some more. Months, that what it's all about. I grew up in a
six floor Boston townhouse. Mom was a ship welder at Gneral Dynamics
and Dad still teaches at RISD. I spent a few years working on
inner-city ambulances there. I went through a lot, growing up in a
violent neighborhood and working in the streets.  The suburbs are
killing me. The American way: ignore a problem until it's ready to
blow, then move to the suburbs and surround ourselves with cops so we
can escape. I ride a bike(cycle) up to the hills West of here before
work. The descents are really getting Cold these days!

When I lived back east I used to go up into Maine on blizzard nights
and forage through fog, walking around on the rocky coast. Some
daydreams have me turning around and seeing someone wading through
the snow, calling me over.  The sound is muffled by the cold air and
waist-deep powder. New-agers are some of the worst because they
pretend to be into existential realism but it's all just sugar-coated
bullshit motifs from luxury car ads. I almost never wear anything
that has to be ironed. I like to figure out where people are from. I
like looking at slides, especially medium format. Deep blues are the
best. I like Cibachrome, too.  Wide lenses.  True texture - it
doesn't have to be gritty, just real.  I love to get immersed in a
place with texture.  Old cities in the Far and Middle East. The most
striking photo I think I've ever seen was taken on black and white
film with in a refugee camp in Thailand.  It was a deserted mud
street between rows of shacks. The slick mud was pelted with rain,
boiling mist overhead.  The lens was wide, maybe the Leica 21. The
photographer tilted downard and focused on a baby crawling toward his
feet. The baby looked up and was crying.  The way the light came in
and centered the kid against the vanishing mud and rain just snared
me instantly. I like storms.  I like designing character sets and
T-shirts. And making clothes.

Time is too precious to sit around and watch TV. Or go to suburbanite
comedy clubs. I fend off flakes, they weigh you down. I'm a realist,
planted significantly to the Left of the new world order Democrats. I
see true change coming only from total restructuring. I'm usually not
afraid to take something head-on and deal with it. I never get
depressed, there's just too much else to do.

I'd like to meet a woman with determination. Someone who stands up
for herself, who isn't afraid to yell and fight, or cry. You see
things as being right or wrong, correct or incorrect. You're
creative, and you can look at something you've done and call it crap
because you're always improving, always moving forward. The good
stuff you come out with is what keeps you going. You have a great
sense of self worth.

And that's why I want to meet You! So write back...

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