I need something epistolary to do at work to avoid actually working.

I read a lot. I believe the mark of a great author is to be as anonymous and mercurial as the sea. If there is a god, I want nothing to do with it. I believe the natural world is more important than the industry that violates it. I am a vociferous vegetarian. I was once a computer programmer, but I repented. I have a dog named Pickles. I believe there is no territory and no landscape more fascinating than another human's mind. I think all robots should be programmed to dance. I suspect there might be blood in a stone. If given opportunity, I will succumb to prolixity, but if not, I will default to stoicism. I think autocorrect is the devil. I believe that labelling something as weird is nothing more than a xenophobia of ideas. I am a pessimist. I believe that pessimism is the only force for good in this world, because an optomist will never seek change. I believe in civil disobedience. I believe that belief is nothing more than the unwillingness to accept a difference of opinion. I might believe nothing.

I seek snail mailers or emailers to tediously blather at.

NO RELATIONSHIP GARBAGE.

I am probably not the ideal person to learn English from, as I have a tendency toward odd turns of phrase, and an occassionaly sesquipedalian vocabulary.

Reading, writing, martial arts, and the unfathomable universe generally.

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Tom Waits, Chelsea Wolfe, PJ Harvey, Leonard Cohen, The Melvins, Spiritual Front, Boris, and everything good sounding.

Hana Bi.

The Fall, Broadchurch, The Man in the High Castle, Justified, The Shield, The Wire, Oz, Fortitude, The Killing.

Franz Kafka, Jeanette Wintersson, Margaret Atwood, Michelle De Kretser, Patricia Highsmith, Peter Carey, Jose Saramago, Thomas Pynchon, Ursula K. Le Guin, Philip K. Dick, and a lot of other things.

"Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are."
-Jose Saramago.

“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy?... Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us."
- Franz Kafka.