User:Elmarco

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

About Elmarco
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

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