User:Elmarco

"Light switches rarely work properly in dreams." - from Wikipedia article on lucid dreams.

About Elmarco[edit]

I am an artist who loves his friends. I have been contributing in my own small way to Wikipedia since January 2005 and (hopefully) am still learning. I live in Los Angeles, California.

My interests evolve constantly and include, in no particular order:

Families of choice (there needs to be a Wikipedia article on that subject)
Poetry, especially jazz poetry
Returning to a more Jesus-based model of Christianity
The Episcopal church
Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker movement
Civil rights for LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) humans
Homosexuality and issues of sexual orientation
Transgender people
Meditation
Yoga
Acting in live theater
Homelessness, particularly in Los Angeles Skid Row
Performance art
Developing an open source New Testament
Imagining new ways to use the Internet, especially with mobile devices
The Jesus movement of the 1970s
Los Angeles history and culture
Film title and key art design
Noir films films and literature
Beat generation literature
The ideas of visionaries like Steve Jobs, Ram Dass and Sasha Shulgin
The counterculture of the 1960s, and radicals like Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin
Web programming with PHP, MySQL and Ajax (not Ajax)
Altered and expanded states of consciousness
Lucid dreams
Geographic information systems (GIS) and cartography
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
Entheogens and psychedelics
The early roots of personal computing

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Identity hash posted by elmarco on 2008-06-27 at 1703 PDT