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Raised in Iowa; an Anglophile; a Democrat`s Democrat. 5'9", 145#. I work out and run.

I like history, architecture, art, archeology, classical music, anything about Antiquity or the Middle Ages; like watching rugby and soccer.

Love eating outside in the summer, hanging out and reading on a blanket in Riverside Park by the Boat Basin; London pubs, BBC Radio 4, science documentary nights at my place w/ my friend/fellow science geek Johnny D., driving thru Times Sq. with JRB in his '64 Triumph Herald w/ the top down, heading to the UK to see friends, watching Dirk work a room of NYC politicos like a yenta on speed.

I'm a frustrated historian--I like chronicling, the details of other worlds and other times. I love reading and writing. But, I'm too practical-minded to ever have attempted academia as a profession.

I'm looking for a boyfriend who shares some of my interests but who can introduce me to other ones; someone who's an encourager of others.

I like masculine guys in their 30's and 40's--fit but with an intellectual or creative side; generally prefer handsome over cute, more muscular than I am--but chemistry trumps all.

I'd ban the censorship manual

A Distant Mirror. The Motion of Light On Water. The Scar. The Dante Club. The Lord of the Rings. The Left Hand of Darkness. Creation. Last of the Wine. The Divine Comedy.

Classical (Tchaikovsky, Carl Nielsen, Bach, Handel). Renaissance and early music. Tribal dance when on the treadmill.

Leo Kottke, Robbie Williams, Dead Can Dance, R.E.M., Cold Play, Beautiful South, Simon and Garfunkel, Fat Boy Slim, Johnny Cash....

Elizabeth, All The President's Men, Blade Runner, Patton, Serial Mom, Clue, Conspiracy, The French Connection, Silence of the Lambs, Lord of the Rings, Bullets Over Broadway, Aliens, The Lion In Winter, My Father's Glory . . .

FAVORITE TV:

Battlestar Galactica, Family Guy, Simpson's, Mystery!, BBC America mysteries, Little Britain, Ghost In The Shell, Nova, Connections, Doctor Who, Futurama, Nova, Frontline...

For me, photography, architecture, music, and the natural "art" of landscapes leave the most powerful memories, sometimes also striking historical artifacts.

Facts are comforting things.

Thought precedes emotion; the way we feel is often determined by thoughts we may not be aware we have.

Less religion, please.

Civil rights for gay Americans.

The origin of species through evolution by natural selection.

A boyfriend.