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| User: | urbpan (1282542) 
The Urban Pantheist
Loving Nature While Living in the City
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| Location: | Boston, Massachusetts, United States |
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| urbpan | @ | livejournal.com (Jabber) |
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| Yahoo! ID: |  urbpan (Add User, Send Message) |
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Hello! This is my journal about loving nature while living in the city (forgive if it goes astray). I have lived in Boston since 1987. Currently I live across the street from The Emerald Necklace, the chain of parks that runs through the city. I work as a keeper in a zoo hospital. I've done some work as a naturalist, doing some ecology work, teaching some adult classes, and leading nature walks. I've done some freelance writing (I even got paid for some of it!), and for many years I produced a zine. Urban nature is my favorite subject (I started the ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) urban_nature community), and I lead monthly nature walks in the city of Boston--if you are interested in joining one, go to the yahoo group and sign up.
![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) cottonmanifesto and I are married and have part-time custody of her daughter. We do not intend to have any children together, and we are very happy with that decision. We own two American pit bull terriers. If you have any questions about pit bulls, I'm happy to discuss the subject. If you just want to know more about them, start here. There is a lot of misinformation from the media, and from pit bull enthusiasts themselves. I think knowing the truth is better than only knowing the myths or the pro-pit propaganda. There are several pit bull owner communities on live journal, but I'm not an active member of any of them.
Urban means "Human." I'm fascinated with the interrelationships between different organisms, especially the many different kind of relationships between humans and non-human animals. I'm interested in discussing animals as food or sources of food (I avoid meat in general, and was a lacto-ovo vegetarian for about 15 years), as pets or beasts of burden, as pests (I'm a pest control technician at the zoo) or threats to safety (I started the animal_attacks community), as objects of fear or fascination, and any other way that animals are important to people. I'll happily discuss any subject on my interests list, for that matter.
My Livejournal in the Media!
The Weekly Dig, October 11, 2006. Wild Bostonia by Lissa Harris.
Plenty Magazine, February/March 2007. The Wild Things are Everywhere by Kiera Butler.
On Pantheism:
Honestly, I'm not a very religious person. I think there are natural explanations for everything. If there is a divine force in the Universe, I can't imagine it as somehow separate (from us, from "the material world"). Pantheism is the belief that the Universe itself is divine, and that "God" is everywhere, and everything. I think that "God" is the laws of nature expressing themselves, as matter, energy, conciousness, and the Universe. If you want to know more about pantheism, go here. One of the reasons I chose to use the word "pantheist" is that it is used by anti-environmentalists as an insult for those of us who care about the environment. It amuses me to embrace their insult. I hug trees, too.
SOYLENT SCREEN. I like sci-fi, action, and monster movies, and I write reviews of them every other Tuesday. They appear on the online magazine of speculative fiction and satire, BLOOD, BLADE, AND THRUSTER under the title Soylent Screen.
Sometimes I trade stuff with my lj friends. Any stuff you want to send to me should be sent here:
Jef Taylor/The Urban Pantheist 423 Brookline Ave #271 Boston MA 02215.
It's a ups store location, so it won't work if you were hoping to stalk me.
BOWLING FOR RHINOS! Sponsor me as I participate in the great New England pastime of candlepin bowling in support of rhinos and rhinoceros habitat in Africa and Indonesia. I'll be bowling with the Zoo New England chapter of the American Association of Zookeepers at The Milky Way Lounge and Lanes in Jamaica Plain at 7:00 p.m. on Friday November 16th. (The event had to be rescheduled because the Milky Way temporarily closed on the planned date. New date to be announced.) Come and cheer us on! For more information about Bowling For Rhinos go here. Thanks for your support!
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| Memories: | 28 entries |
| Interests: | 108: 365 urban species, alleys, animal attacks, animals and plants, animals nobody loves, antigua and barbuda, art and science, asian vegetarian food, austin, autodidacticism, behind the scenes tours, big trees, biological control, birds, black humor, boston, brookline, capture and restraint, carrion birds, cemeteries, childlike wonder, cities, city parks, clambering, climates, cockroaches, coevolution, commons, concepts of nature, conservation biology, creepy-crawlies, decomposition, dogs as food animals, dogtown massachusetts, domestic animals, ecology, ecotourism, enthusiastic amateurs, environmental art, environmentalism, evolution, frederick law olmsted, funky stuff, futuristic dystopias, gay rights, golden gate park, history of food, insects, integrated pest management, ipm, islands, lithic art, meat as pets, monkeys, monsters, moss, mundane details, mutualism, mycology, natural disasters, natural history, nature photography, nature walks, new england, npr, parasites, pest control, pests, pets as meat, pigeons, pit bulls, planet earth, ponds, population control, predator-prey interactions, public land, public libraries, public transportation, rats, restoration ecology, rocks, san francisco, satire and parody, science journalism, scuttling, slime molds, snakes and spiders, snapshots, sustainablilty, swamps, the emerald necklace, the muddy river, the riverway, the seemingly unimportant, the self-creating universe, the woods, tide pools, traveling, trees, urban nature, urban nature walk, uses of animals, wading, walking, weeds, wild bostonia, zombies robots and mutants, zoos |
| Schools: | Suffield High School - Suffield, CT (1983 - 1987)
Massachusetts College of Art - Boston, MA (1987 - 1992)
University of Massachusetts - Boston - Boston, MA (2005)
Harvard University, Harvard Extension School - Cambridge, MA (2005 - 2006)
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| Friends: | | 213: | 1dream_weaver, _bazilisk_, _cassette_tape, abearius, aemiis_zoo, agelena, amazingrando, amypatt, anais2, ankhanu, antarcticlust, ardaraith, arrielgurl, artemii, audacian, badnoodles, barbmg, barn_swallow, bbtmag, bebopfox, belen1974, bellelvsbeast, bellisaurius, bicoastal, bigskies, bleppo, bloolark, brian_z, broken_angel, brush_rat, bunrab, burning_brain, by_steph, calypso72, candent, cavalaxis, chaggie, chanphenglew, charliemarlowe, chocomocha, chrono2501, coleplay, copperwolf, corivax, cottonmanifesto, cowgrrl, cowpewter, crunchywater, deathling, derekdicaprio, desu, donnad, dosboof, dpip, dragon_spirit, dragondazd, dragonwrites, drhoz, drocera, droserary, dsgood, elainetyger, eponai, evandorkin, eyeawry, ezra_the_dog, fairy, featheredfrog, fledchen, fly_home, fuckoff_kthanx, futurebird, g_weir, gardenfey, gemfyre, gigglingwizard, godstatic, grace_batmonkey, grapefruitgirl, greenelvish, greyrooms, gribley, grimlocke, grrlpup, gryfindormia, gwenhyffar, gwodder, hai_kah_uhk, harebell, harrietbrown, heavenscalyx, hhw, hildythenerd, hissilliness, hummingwolf, iandavid, ithriel, izzy23, jademonkeybec, jainabee, janetmk, jennocide, jess_d_ripper, jessmarie, jewelweed, jilder, joannajanis, judes, kensaunders, kkbb, klandaghicat, knightchik, kore, kryptyd, lbbastard, leomissus, livsmama, lizblackdog, loathemeplease, lostnorange, lynsage, macabre_grrl, make_you_laugh, mandy_moon, markurock, maybethecat, melannen, meryddian, messy_wreck, miekec, mike20, miss_jett, miz_geek, momomom, moocards, morbidmom04, morethings5, morgi, morrigandaughtr, moschus, mozzer131, mrreusch, ms_cantrell, mysticchyna, nathanblack, nature_artemii, ndozo, nevers, ninthraven, nmsunbear, nutmeg, nysidra, obie119, octogirlie, okaree, omphalina, openheartsoftly, paxpan_nyc, perigee, perspicuity, petunias_petals, phlogiston_5, pipu, plantgirl, poohding, potentialtoburn, principito, psongster, purplebunnie_, quillon, rialian, ricerurouni, richmackin, rikkisimons, rinalia, roaming, rockbalancer, rudezombie, rumi_fish, rumorofrain, sclerotic_rings, seaweedgirle, sebastian_tombs, seraphina_prime, shellynoir, sheridankm, signsoflife, silverdee, simplykimberly, sin_agua, slimnerd, smallerdemon, squire_jons, squirrel_magnet, stephanietberry, stonelizard, teratologist, tmcm, toastisgoodfood, txtriffidranch, umbrellajones, ungulata, urb_banal, urbpan, urimancy, ursulav, vampyrusgirl, vespabelle, wakarusa, wandererrob, wirrrn, xiloxoch, yukihada | | 68: | abouthawaii, adult_pagans, alien_species, animal_attacks, animal_behavior, animania_daily, armchairscience, b0st0n, big_backyard, big_trees, bikes_in_boston, birdlovers, birdvolunteers, blindwatchmaker, bloom_county, bostoncycling, brookline, buried_in_green, carpunchers, city_chickens, cryptozoology, dailydirector, deadphotos, doonesburyc, doors_v_stene, ecologists, engrish, entomology, found_objects, gentlesurvival, getfuzzyfeed, getyourwaron, green_rainbow, greenparty, invertebrates, jazzfromhell, jefselfportrait, jelf_portrait, literaryagents, ljover30, millparklife, mixed_eats, mycology, nasty_pets, npr_junkie, paidmembers, pantheists, pearlswine, save_swastikas, slime_moulds, spellfecker, spo_prevention, strange_trees, submissionguide, tmbg, tomlehrer, urban_adventure, urban_nature, urbanpagan, veg_food_porn, vegetarians, velo_city, weather_pics, weirdnews, whats_that_bug, wildfoods, wtf_nature, zookeepers |  | 13: | cartalk, dictionary_wotd, fortean_news, foundwhitekitty, free_wifi, gywo_rss, knuckletattoos, newyorkertoon, pb_fellowship, savagelove, snopes_dot_com, theonionfeed, thestraightdope |
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| Mutual Friends: | 205: 1dream_weaver, _bazilisk_, _cassette_tape, abearius, aemiis_zoo, agelena, amazingrando, amypatt, anais2, ankhanu, antarcticlust, ardaraith, arrielgurl, artemii, audacian, badnoodles, barbmg, barn_swallow, bbtmag, bebopfox, belen1974, bellelvsbeast, bellisaurius, bicoastal, bigskies, bleppo, bloolark, brian_z, broken_angel, brush_rat, bunrab, burning_brain, by_steph, calypso72, candent, cavalaxis, chaggie, chanphenglew, charliemarlowe, chocomocha, chrono2501, coleplay, copperwolf, corivax, cottonmanifesto, cowgrrl, cowpewter, crunchywater, deathling, derekdicaprio, desu, donnad, dosboof, dragon_spirit, dragondazd, dragonwrites, drhoz, drocera, droserary, dsgood, elainetyger, eponai, eyeawry, fairy, featheredfrog, fledchen, fly_home, fuckoff_kthanx, futurebird, g_weir, gardenfey, gemfyre, gigglingwizard, godstatic, grace_batmonkey, grapefruitgirl, greenelvish, greyrooms, gribley, grimlocke, grrlpup, gryfindormia, gwenhyffar, gwodder, hai_kah_uhk, harebell, harrietbrown, heavenscalyx, hhw, hildythenerd, hissilliness, hummingwolf, iandavid, ithriel, izzy23, jademonkeybec, jainabee, janetmk, jennocide, jess_d_ripper, jessmarie, jewelweed, jilder, joannajanis, judes, kensaunders, kkbb, klandaghicat, knightchik, kore, kryptyd, lbbastard, leomissus, livsmama, lizblackdog, loathemeplease, lostnorange, lynsage, macabre_grrl, mandy_moon, markurock, maybethecat, melannen, meryddian, messy_wreck, miekec, mike20, miss_jett, miz_geek, momomom, morbidmom04, morethings5, morgi, morrigandaughtr, moschus, mozzer131, mrreusch, ms_cantrell, mysticchyna, nathanblack, nature_artemii, ndozo, nevers, ninthraven, nmsunbear, nutmeg, nysidra, obie119, octogirlie, okaree, ... |
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