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Words are inadequate
(the poor craftsman curses his tools)
Paid Account, Created on 18 September 2000 (#15870), Last updated on 25 May 2013 [Gift]
- Name:
- Tucker McKinnon
- Birthdate:
- 27 November 1976
- Location:
- Vancouver, BC, Canada
- Website:
- Primarily on Dreamwidth
- Schools:
- White Oaks Elementary School - Burke, VA (1984 - 1986)Edgewood Middle School - Fayetteville, NC (1986 - 1989)Pine Forest Middle School - Fayetteville, NC (1989 - 1991)Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology - Alexandria, VA (1991 - 1995)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University - Blacksburg, VA (1995 - 2005)
- Interests: (147)
- absurdism, affection, agyar, alphonse mucha, amber drpg, andy warhol, answers, antje duvekot, autumn, backrubs, bare feet, baths, bicentennial quarters, blaming the patriarchy, blue man group, board games, books, bowler hats, breakfast for dinner, cat vacuuming society, cats, changeling: the dreaming, charles vess, cinnamon, contact juggling, cuddling, dar williams, david bowie, dido, due south, dylan thomas, edward gorey, elizabeth bear, emily watson, existentialism, fantasy, feminism, feminist science fiction, fleeing to canada, fog, forests, gavin friday, gene wolfe, gin blossoms, girlyman, go, going barefoot, having too many books, hellblazer, hiking, homing from work, howl, hugs, icehouse, ink, interactive fiction, irregular webcomic, j.r.r. tolkien, jazz fish zen, john cale, john m. ford, jorge luis borges, juggling, kisses, labyrinth, lacuna, latin, leonard cohen, lloyd alexander, long hair, m.c. escher, military brats, modernism, monkeys, moonlight, muppets, mushrooms, my iphone, neil gaiman, nobilis, owain glyndwr, owly, pancakes, peanuts, pearls before swine, planned parenthood, polyamory, pomegranates, pop-tarts, postmodernism, pre-joycean fellowship, questions, rain, raphael carter, raymond smullyan, reading, red bell peppers, rené magritte, richard feynman, roger zelazny, rosemary kirstein, samuel beckett, science fiction, shakespeare, slings and arrows, snow, snowpocalypse, snuggling, speculative fiction, spiel, spring peepers, statler and waldorf, steven brust, stories, sunsets, super monkey ball, surrealism, t'ai chi, t.s. eliot, taoism, tarot, tea, ted chiang, teresa nielsen hayden, the phantom tollbooth, the scribblies, the treachery of images, the waste land, theatre, thunderstorms, tim powers, tjhsst, tjst, tom stoppard, totoro, trackballs, unknown armies, ursula k. le guin, vancouver, wales, warren zevon, william butler yeats, winter, witty banter, writing, xkcd, zarf
- Bio
- McKinnon was my maternal great-grandmother's maiden name. I figure I've used my paternal great-grandfather's name about long enough. Tucker was what the cute girl a year older than me thought my name was the first week of high school. It kind of stuck.
I can be reached by email at this account name at dreamwidth.org.
Only in silence the word,
only in dark the light,
only in dying life:
bright the hawk's flight
on the empty sky.
--Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Creation of Éa"
The title/subtitle combo is from "Chromatic Aberration" by the transcendent John M. Ford (RIP), who also wrote:
It is in the mystery of priests to muddy what they say,
In the speech of statesmen to prove things their way,
In the way of engineers to twist nature's forces,
It is in the nature of poets to misuse their sources.
Sometimes things hit you just right, you know?
I'm told I'm difficult to buy things for. I provide this list as a public service.
Contact info: friends-locked in this DW entry (log in with OpenID to see it), and updated as necessary.
Reviews of books and such: check the medialog tag on DW. (Formerly located at
jazzfish_media.)
I am the cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.
--Rudyard Kipling, "The Cat Who Walked By Himself"