Some Stuff About Me

Full legal name: Daniel John Layman-Kennedy

Aliases: otterinmotley, Maestro23, "Silent Bob! It's Silent Bob!"

Age: 28

Appearance: Rumpled, overweight, bearded geek in a big coat, careening gracelessly towards thirty

Vocation: Document Imaging Specialist for the George Washington University Supply Chain Organization 

Avocation: Writer, musician, fantasist

Marital status: Married, amazingly enough

Education: Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre from West Virginia University

Birthsign: Aquarius in the Year of the Tiger

Religious affiliation: Buddhist Neopagan Discordian Unitarian-Universalist agnostic

Philosophical inclination: Perky Nihilist

Sexual orientation: Bisexual

Ethnicity: Italian, Irish, Pennsylvania Dutch, assorted others

Interests: Fantasy/sf/horror, comic books, roleplaying games, medieval & Renaissance history, mythology, Celtic cultures, Fools, Shakespeare, theatre of the absurd, Eastern and Beat philosophy, Gothicness in all its forms, Chaos magick, sexuality & gender studies, alternative & progressive rock, punk, Chinese food, cartoons, toys, art, humor, cigars

Favorite authors: Clive Barker, Neil Gaiman, Thomas Ligotti, H.P. Lovecraft, Grant Morrison, Terry Pratchett, Patricia McKillip

Favorite movies: The Name of the Rose, Nightbreed, Seven, Dark City, Braveheart, Henry V, Event Horizon, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead, Peter's Friends

Favorite TV shows: Farscape, Adult Swim, Samurai Jack

Favorite comics: Sandman, Dork Tower, Hellboy, Cerebus, Hellblazer, Doom Patrol, The K Chronicles

Favorite musicians: Jim's Big Ego, Porcupine Tree, White Willow, Current 93, Cocteau Twins, The Changelings, King Crimson, Tom Waits, the Pixies, the Pogues, the Smiths,  Tori Amos, Dar Williams

Known fringe-group affiliations: Geeks, Goths, pagans, gamers, feminists, queers, ravers, neo-hippies, actual hippies, folksingers, intellectuals, artists, freethinkers and assorted freaks

Other stuff: I was born in Pennsylvania, grew up in West Virginia, and now live with my lovely wife Stacy in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC.  I also prefer Tolkien to Lewis, the Beatles to the Stones, and dark chocolate to milk.  My turn-ons include walks outdoors, backrubs, and the color burgundy, and my turnoffs are rude people and intolerance.  You don't even want to know my measurements.

For even more useless information about me, check out my answers to the Inside the Actors' Studio Questionnaire.

For more detailed recommendations on various stuff I'm into, visit my links page.

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