Madonna, Janet, Prince, Wendy & Lisa, Sting, Bjork, Indigo Girls, BT, Nickel Creek, Ace of Base, heavy house, Bonnie Raitt, Jack Johnson

The Color Purple, X-Men, Transformers: the Motion Picture, Star Trek: Wrath of Khan, Pitch Black, Alive, The 5th Element, Crouching Tiger, the entire Alien(s) genre. Anything by Ridley Scott or Tim Burton, Xanadu.

Fantasy swords and sorcery paperbacks, grad school class textbooks (zzzz...), the Washington Post, blogs, and shallow, vapid gossip magazines. Where the Sea Breaks its Back, The Stand, A Sand County Almanac, Alive, Lord of the Rings, most Forgotten Realms novels

Playing rugby, backpacking, snowboarding, day hikes, gardening, reading, computer games, bike rides, working out, sci-fi TV (Battlestar, Stargate), dancing, beer, aquaria.

Hi. I'm a certifiable 'beardo' who lives in Washington, DC. I like guys with beards. I like looking at beards. I like watching them grow. Nice, dense, thick beards. Beards with a little grey in them. Auburn beards. Blond beards. Dark beards. The beard makes the man. Go beard!