User:Elmarco

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

About Elmarco

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. I trust Jimbo Wales.

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
The emerging New Christianity, whose four streams are emergent, missional, mosaic and neomonastic.
Web programming with PHP, MySQL, AJAX and AHAH
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 LGBT (lesbian, gay, 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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