Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re:Bio - The Ancient Mariner

[Mmariner (Mmariner]

Suggestion:  As you push the "reply" button after your email bio, add your
name after "Bio" on the subject line so it can be easily found in our in
baskets.

Notice:  All you lurkers *must* do a bio or your community will forever be
virtual and exist only between the electrons in cyberspace!  

You can be outlandish and jive as hell.  Don't fill it out like another
unemployment form!

(Using Marty's *amended* form)

Name:   Michael Mariner
Birthdate:  6/5/45
Marital status:  Single
Family (children, pets, etc):  The Yellow Squirrel Farm folk and my future
community (Don't ask how the squirrels got yellow)
Education (where, what):   BA English, Ft. Pickle, (CSU) Colo.  (Go ahead,
ask why it was called "Ft. Pickle" by it's friends)
E-Mail:   mmariner [at] aol.com
Home Address:    Boulder, CO
Phone # (optional): (sent by email when req'd)
Community (if any):  forming on the ethereal plane - (post novel)
Location:  NE quadrant of Colo., most likely
Stage of Development:  Ethereal, looking for site
What I do for money:  Computer training/consulting, writing, quasi-pro video
What I do for fun:  Write fiction, songs, poetry; play guitar, banjo, drums;
swim, hike, bike, video, 
Favorite thing about community:  Dreaming, fantasizing, novelizing about it
Worst thing about community:  Opening my eyes and discovering I ain't in one
currently.

If I was in charge, I would:  

(Macro)  Restructure our culture so the pyramid is resting on a side, not
standing on a point.  The present top-heavy structure defies laws of nature
and humanity.  [Hint:  getting yourself a community is a major step in
getting the pyramid to return to resting on it's side -- the grassroots, the
collective you and me.]

(Micro)  Mandate that all manufacturers of audio/video equipment be required
to label all the ports so they're readable - no black-on-black letters
allowed.