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"Light switches rarely work properly in dreams." - from Wikipedia article on [[Lucid dream | lucid dreams]].

== About Elmarco ==

[[Image:Los Angeles skyline.JPG|thumb|right|[[Los Angeles]] at night, photographed from [[Mulholland Drive]] by Eino Mustonen.]]
I am an artist who loves his friends.  I have been contributing in my own small way to [[Wikipedia]] since January 2005 and (hopefully) am still learning.  I live in [[Los Angeles]], [[California]].

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

* Families of choice (there needs to be a Wikipedia article on that subject)
* [[Poetry]], especially [[Jazz poetry | jazz poetry]]
* Returning to a more [[Jesus]]-based model of [[Liberal Christianity | Christianity]]
* The [[Episcopal Church in the United States of America | Episcopal church]]
* [[Dorothy Day]] and the [[Catholic Worker movement]]
* Civil rights for [[LGBT social movements | LGBT]] (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) humans
* [[Homosexuality]] and issues of [[sexual orientation]]
* [[Transgender]] people
* [[Meditation]]
* [[Yoga]]
* [[Acting]] in live [[Theatre|theater]]
* [[Homelessness]], particularly in [[Los Angeles]] [[Skid Row]]
* [[Performance art]]
* Developing an [[Open source | open source]] [[New Testament]]
* Imagining new ways to use the [[Internet]], especially with [[Mobile device | mobile devices]]
* The [[Jesus movement]] of the 1970s
* [[Los Angeles]] history and culture
* [[Film title design | Film title]] and [[Film poster | key art]] design
* Noir [[Film noir | films]] films and [[Hardboiled | literature]]
* [[Beat generation]] literature
* The ideas of [[Visionary | visionaries]] like [[Steve Jobs]], [[Ram Dass]] and [[Alexander Shulgin | Sasha Shulgin]]
* The [[Counterculture of the 1960s | counterculture of the 1960s]], and radicals like [[Abbie Hoffman]] and [[Jerry Rubin]]
* [[World Wide Web | Web]] programming with [[PHP]], [[MySQL]] and [[Ajax (programming) | Ajax]] (not [[Ajax (cleanser)|Ajax]])
* Altered and expanded [[Altered state of consciousness | states of consciousness]]
* [[Lucid dream | Lucid dreams]]
* [[Geographic information system | Geographic information systems]] (GIS) and [[Cartography | cartography]]
* [[Scalable Vector Graphics]] (SVG)
* [[Entheogen | Entheogens]] and [[Psychedelic drug | psychedelics]]
* The early roots of [[Personal computer | personal computing]]

== User committed identity ==

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