Dale

• Age: 39
• Gender: Male
• Occupation: Flake Tester
• Location: Oregon : United States

About Me

I try to be awake, and if I can manage that, to be reasonable. "With any other man I should have flown outright into a dreadful passion, scorned all further words, and thrust him ignominiously from my presence. But there was something about Bartleby that not only strangely disarmed me, but in a wonderful manner touched and disconcerted me. I began to reason with him." My e-mail is dances with anxiety [at] gmail dot com.

Interests

• running
• poetry
• drumming
• writing
• reading
• fitness
• free will
• determinism
• god's existence
• god
• philosophy
• ethics
• criticism
• walking
• empathy
• whales
• scorpions
• cats
• vegetarianism
• prehistoric fauna
• prehistoric humans
• prehistory
• voluntary simplicity
• climate change
• creativity
• the chicken as a metaphor
• finding something new under the sun
• evolutionary psychology
• grammar
• math
• chess
• paradoxes
• illusions
• aporia
• Ponca City
• depression
• dissent
• dark beer
• red wine
• science
• anti-intellectualism
• reality and its adversaries
• atheism
• freethought
• secularism
• humanism
• faith
• ethics
• authority
• belief
• rhetoric
• persuasion
• politics
• judgment
• etymology
• eschatology
• teleology
• hermeneutics
• epistemology
• history
• literature
• evolution
• skepticism
• religion
• reason
• justice

Favorite Movies

• The Bicycle Thief
• King Kong vs. Godzilla
• 8 1/2
• The God Who Wasn't There
• No Country for Old Men
• There Will Be Blood
• The Magdalene Sisters
• Office Space
• An Inconvenient Truth
• The Road to Perdition
• Bowling for Columbine
• The Planet of the Apes
• Braveheart
• Borat
• Election
• Pulp Fiction
• Little Children
• The Passenger
• The Corporation
• American Beauty
• Reservoir Dogs
• Citizen Kane
• Fargo
• The Virgin Spring
• La Dolce Vita
• Caddyshack
• The Proposition
• The Seventh Seal
• The Lord of the Rings
• The Godfather
• Jarhead
• Blow Up
• L'Avventura
• Funny Games
• Wild Strawberries
• Goodfellas
• Groundhog Day
• Roger & Me
• The Autumn Sonata
• Man Bites Dog
• Five Easy Pieces
• A Clockwork Orange
• The Simpsons Movie
• The Woodsman
• Saving Private Ryan
• Rob Roy
• Kentucky Fried Movie
• Winter Light
• The Yes Men
• Monty Python's Life of Bryan
• Magnolia
• Rushmore
• The Barbarian Invasions
• Il Grido
• My Left Foot
• Sophie's Choice
• Through A Glass Darkly
• The Grapes of Wrath
• Stripes
• Good Will Hunting
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• Better Off Dead
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• South Park: Bigger Longer Uncut
• The Silence
• This Is Spinal Tap
• 13 Tzameti
• Persona
• Hamlet (Branagh
• Olivier)
• Macbeth (Finch
• Welles)
• Richard III (McKellen
• Olivier)
• Othello (Fishburne)

Favorite Music

• Bob Dylan
• Neko Case
• The Bird and the Bee
• Yo La Tengo
• Radiohead
• The National
• Pink Floyd
• Lucinda Williams
• The Shins
• The Beatles
• Sonic Youth
• U2
• Bach
• Laura Cantrell
• Mozart
• Miles Davis
• Uncle Tupelo
• Interpol
• Stravinsky
• Death Cab for Cutie
• Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
• Wilco
• Jenny Lewis & Watson Twins
• R.E.M.
• Franz Ferdinand
• The Pogues
• Vladimir Horowitz
• Schubert
• Public Enemy
• Stephen Malkmus
• DeVotchka
• The Spinanes
• The Waterboys
• The Beatles
• Rachmaninoff
• Silver Jews
• Johnny Cash
• Pavement
• Stereolab
• Liszt
• Monade
• Portishead
• Chopin
• D. Scarlatti
• Camper Van Beethoven
• Junior Brown
• Massive Attack
• Luna
• The Eagles
• Nirvana
• Brahms
• Beethoven
• PJ Harvey
• Broadcast
• The New Pornographers
• frente!
• The Sundays
• The Arcade Fire
• Blonde Redhead
• The Mountain Goats
• Beck

Favorite Books

• The Aeneid
• Against Love: A Polemic
• Ecclesiastes
• Why I Am Not a Christian
• The Road
• A Confederacy of Dunces
• Language Truth & Logic
• The Age of Reason
• The Devil's Dictionary
• Paradise Lost
• The God Delusion
• Confessions (Augustine
• Rousseau)
• Darwin's Dangerous Idea
• The Book of Job
• No Country for Old Men
• The Iliad
• The Blind Watchmaker
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X
• The Jungle
• The Secular Conscience
• How The Mind Works
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
• Walden
• Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
• Truth and Method
• Frankenstein
• The Oresteia
• Lolita
• The End of Faith
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
• The Odyssey
• Civilization and Its Discontents
• Montaigne
• John Irving
• David Sedaris
• Christopher Hitchens
• Steven Pinker
• Richard Dawkins
• Sam Harris
• Jennifer Michael Hecht
• Voltaire
• Plato
• Kafka
• Twain
• Vonnegut
• Stephen Jay Gould
• Shakespeare
• Chaucer
• Cioran
• Stanley Fish
• Lucretius
• Peter Medawar
• Richard Rorty
• Flannery O'Connor
• Milan Kundera
• Lewis Lapham
• Melville
• Sophocles
• Euripides
• Dostoevsky
• Nietzsche
• Thomas Frank
• Marx/Engels
• Camus
• Peter Singer
• Wallace Stevens
• W.H. Auden