User:Elmarco

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

About Elmarco

Los Angeles at night, photographed from Mulholland Drive by Eino Mustonen.

I am a poet, dreamer, photographer, graphic artist, web developer, inventor, friend. A book of my Los Angeles poetry, Sunrise on Cesar Chavez, was published in 2004.

My interests evolve constantly and include, in no particular order:

• Los Angeles history and culture
• Noir films and literature
• Beat generation literature
• The ideas of visionaries like Ram Dass and Alexander Shulgin
• The Episcopal church
• Returning to a more Jesus-based model of Christianity
• Web 2.0 programming with PHP, MySQL and AJAX
• Lucid dreaming
• Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker movement
• The Jesus movement
• Library computing and the Library of Congress MARC database
• Poetry
• Geographic information systems (GIS) and cartography
• Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
• The 1960s counterculture, and radicals like Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin
• Civil rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender humans
• Entheogens and psychedelics
• Homelessness, particularly in Los Angeles Skid Row
• Developing an open source New Testament
• Learning about electronics, especially audio mixing boards
• Altered and expanded states of consciousness
• The early roots of personal computing
• Imagining new ways to use the Internet that will take us to the next level and redefine what we have now.

I have been contributing in my own small way to Wikipedia since January 2005 and (hopefully) am still learning.

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