Interests: wine, beth orton, thinking, secrets, paul simon, cheese, tom waits, clarity, smoking, margaret atwood, reference books, leonard cohen, tom robbins, salt, gertrude stein, lloyd alexander, suzanne vega, cat power, robert creeley, cinnamon, sand, salvador dali, dark chocolate, garlic, water, laurie anderson, jeanette winterson, silence, the new yorker, wim wenders, auden, talking heads, picasso, edna st. vincent millay, grammar, jonathan richman, t.s. eliot, david foster wallace, cloves, alfons mucha, big words, brno, david byrne, frank o'hara, gaudi, ginger, good spelling, iva bittova, iva pekarkova, jaromir nohavica, josef skvorecky, katherine paterson, klimt, laughing till it hurts, little kids singing, miss manners, music of my misspent youth, nicholson baker, paul wilson, prufrock, taste of tears, the perfect martini, things that stain, vegetable juice, veiled cultural references, vinegar, weird pasta shapes, e. b. white, ezra pound, white food