Ben Varkentine
- Age: 38
- Gender: Male
- Astrological Sign: Virgo
- Zodiac Year: Boar
- Industry: Arts
- Occupation: writer
- Location: Seattle : Washington : United States
About Me
The rules of our game have been made very clear. You need to abide by those rules.
Aren't papier mache cuts the worst?
No, there are some cuts that are worse.
Interests
- California
- a Buddhism-influenced spiritual inner life
- My cats
- reading
- dragons
- Star Wars
- civil rights
- Sinfest
- Greek (TV series)
- the media
- appreciating women
- writing
- Saving Grace (w/Holly Hunter)
- my nephew
- Aaron Sorkin
- Friday Night Lights
- House MD
- George Carlin
Favorite Movies
- The John Hughes teen movies
- the Saw film series
- Disney-Pixar
- Terry Gilliam films
- Sideways
- All That Jazz
Favorite Music
- Tears For Fears
- Human League
- Hall & Oates
- Nik Kershaw
- Pet Shop Boys
- the Fixx
- OMD
- PWEI
- Musical Theater
- Scritti Politti
- Thompson Twins
- Kirsty MacColl
- Erasure
- Marvin Gaye
- My Favorite
- David Bowie
- Colin Hay
- Peter Gabriel
- Emily Easterly
- the Smiths
- Howard Jones
- Oingo Boingo
- the Beatles
Favorite Books
- Unfriendly Fire: How The Gay Ban Undermines The Military And Weakens America by Nathaniel Frank
- Beige
- Douglas Adams
- Doonesbury
- Simon Brett
- Simon Callow
- Roger Ebert
- Jonathan Carrol
- I
- Asimov
- The Compleat Ellison
- Joe Jackson's A Cure For Gravity
- Dr. Seuss
- Biographies of geniuses
- The Language Police
- On writing well
- Additional dialogue: the letters of Dalton Trumbo
- Da Capo music writing anthologies
- Kenneth Tynan
- Charles Schulz
- William Goldman
