Concerts, Sushi, Baseball (watching or playing), Playing Guitar, Singing, Movies, Cats, Cafes, Pubs, Single-Malt Scotch, Witty Girls Who (Mostly) Avoid Being Pretentious, Idle Conversation, Idle Curiosity, Idle Threats, Idolatry

Man

Woman

36 years old

Dating
LTR

from 21 to 37

Caucasian/White

5'9" (175cm)

Professional Dilettante

Atheist

English

Bachelors degree

Philosophy (brilliant career move, btw)

SUNY New Paltz

United States

14905

Elmira/Ithaca, NY

"Brainiac" Dating? This could get pretentious real fast...

I moved back to Elmira to take a marketing position in the family business against my better judgment. I'm considering options that will get me the hell out of here again, but I'm also starting to make some friends (only took a year and a half)... and I'm looking for a girl. If I fall in love, I may start looking for excuses to stick around. Feel free to ask me about anything, I'm not what you'd call secretive.

Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, Tolkien, George R. R. Martin, Chuck Klostermann

Do I only get one question? Oh, wait... dammit!

Anything, really, as long as it's casual. Hopefully, we'll both be pleasantly surprised that we're even more attractive than our pictures would suggest. Then, over coffee/tea/beer/food/whatever, we'll have a conversation wherein all of the silences are of the comfortable variety. We find each other funny and/or comforting, and we go on to have a passionate love affair of indeterminate length.

If you own a baseball glove and suggest that we go play catch, on our first date, I may already love you.

I like games of any sort, really. I like competition, but I'm not particularly competitive. I like word games a lot. And trivia. And really tediously long board games, like Risk and Monopoly and Axis & Allies. I prefer darts to pool. I also play video games when I'm alone, but if you like them, I will play with you.

I flippin' love baseball, but haven't really gotten into other sports much.

Just cross-sections:

The Royal Tennenbaums, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Spider-Man, The Bourne Identity, Anchorman, Once, Zombie films, To Kill a Mockingbird...

Paul Simon, Phish, The Beatles, The Who, The Decembrists, Death Cab For Cutie, Miles Davis, Mike Doughty, Gomez, LCD Soundsystem...

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