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About SilverFox - Male, Single (San Jose, CA)

I try to find the humor in things, and since I inadvertently provide many reasons to laugh at myself, it's good that I do. I try not to take myself too seriously, but lord, sometimes I relapse--though I always regain my senses. I'm a nature lover and sometime environmentalist. I feel most alive and at peace walking along ocean bluffs or in a forest, smelling wildflowers and meadows and the sea, feeling the sun on my face. An occasional volunteer tutor for ESL gradeschoolers. A lawyer and legal writer by trade. A social progressive, with libertarian and conservative financial leanings (to my mind, liberals tend to be Democrats, while progressives are disillusioned with both parties and often vote for third-party candidates). I'm a secular humanist, an agnostic, and an apatheist. I'm not defined by political labels and am open to consideration of different viewpoints--I'll vote for anything that makes sense to me and anyone who seems honest, has the interests of all of society at heart, and will be able to get the job done. I want to leave the world a better place than I found it; help those who haven't had my good luck of being born into fortunate circumstances; and influence others away from greed, selfishness, and narcissism toward seeing the benefit of helping fellow humans to share this poor, abused planet equally. And the San Francisco 49ers rock!

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Favorite Music & Artists:

Pretty eclectic. Blues (B.B. King, Bobby Bland, Charles Brown); rock (Everly Bros. to Chris Isaak to Coldplay); world/international (Cesaria Evora to Zucchero); fado; Brazilian pop and jazz, e.g., Milton Nascimento, Gilberto Gil; Afro-Cuban, e.g., salsa, merengue, Buena Vista Social Club); pop (Johnny Mathis to Basia to Michael Bublé), old R&B (Jesse Belvin to doo-wop); soul-jazz (Ramsey Lewis to Brother Jack McDuff); vocalists/opera pop (Alessandro Safina to Sarah Brightman to Placido Domingo); and a smattering of Americana/country/folk (Dixie Chicks to Willie Nelson to Alison Krauss & Union Station). All-time favorite artist: Van Morrison, and favorite CD is his Poetic Champions Compose.

Favorite Books & Authors:

Mostly nonfiction. Enjoyed "State of Denial," "The World Is Flat," "The Secret Man" [Deep Throat], "Fast Food Nation," "The One Percent Doctrine."

Novelists I enjoy include Anne Tyler, Anita Shreve, Scott Turow, John Grisham, Nelson DeMille, Ernest Hemingway, Joseph Conrad, E.M. Forster, Somerset Maugham.

Favorite Movies, TV Shows, Stars & Directors:

Movies: The Pianist, The Lives of Others, Mystic River, In America, Tender Mercies, Philadelphia, Tom Jones, Zorba the Greek.

Actors: Robert Duvall, Kevin Spacey, Don Cheadle, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Gene Hackman, Adrien Brody, Anthony Hopkins. Actresses: Meryl Streep, Diane Lane, Jennifer Connelly, Kate Winslet, Annette Bening, Laura Linney, Naomi Watts.

TV: Damages, Grey's Anatomy, PBS, Jon Stewart, Bill Maher.

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