User:Yossarian

Yossarian Here
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Name	6unoh lanwes
Gender	Male
Birth date	September 17
Birth place	Vancouver
Current location	North Vancouver
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Marital status	Taken times two
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Occupation	Unemployed Artiste
College	Capilano "University"
University	University of Victoria
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Religion	Atheism/Strong agnosticism
Politics	Red
Aliases	Yossarian (joʊ'sεɹ.i.ən)
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See below
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Hello fellow Wikipedians (and other stragglers),

I started here in May of 2004, mostly because Wikipedia kept popping up on searches for random trivia, so I thought, "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em." So I did. As well as being a geek, I'm a hopeless playwright from the left coast of the Great White North (a very proud comrade of Soviet Canuckistan...all power to the beavers!). I believe in one for all, abortions for some, miniature American flags for others.

I stole my name from Joseph Heller (and he can't have it back).

Cheers,

▐☆☭▌Yossarian^Complaints

PS: To anyone who doesn't italicize plays, novels, publications, et cetera: I will eat your soul.

PPS: If you underline them, I'll eat your mother's soul.

PPPS: I may or may not be a communist...but I assure you the flag is just kitsch.

VICIPAEDIA = I conquered education!

Major contributions

Vladimir, Estragon, Pozzo, Lucky, Act Without Words II, Catastrophe, The Singing Detective (first article), Vivian Mercier, PABAAH (says a number, but 'twas me), Mechanical (character), Eleutheria. The Beckett Template (see below), The George Bernard Shaw Template (see below), The Harold Pinter Template (see below), The David Mamet Template (see...you get the picture), Beckett Prose Template, The Tom Stoppard Template, The Oscar Wilde Drama Template, The Tennessee Williams Template

I'm currently working (off and on) for Ganymead on Wikipedia:WikiProject Theatre. I've assigned myself the task of working through each Beckett play and make them into proper articles.

Interests (in absolutely no particular order)

Politics:

• Communism, Socialism, Conservatism, Libertarianism

History:

• World War I, its sequel, the Russian Revolution

Literature:

• Joseph Heller (Catch-22), Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (Slaughterhouse-Five), Robert A. Heinlein (Stranger in a Strange Land), Vladimir Nabokov (Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins...)

Drama:

• Samuel Beckett (Waiting for Godot), William Shakespeare, Tom Stoppard (Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead), Theatre of the Absurd, Tragedy, Comedy

Film:

• Film Noir (Humphrey Bogart, The Third Man, The Singing Detective), John Huston, Quentin Tarantino, Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock

Music:

• The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Classical Music, Jazz

Existentialism:

• Sartre, Beckett

Miscellaneous

Emperor Norton I, English Monarchs, American Presidents, Homestarrunner.com, Bob and Doug's stomping grounds

For Yossarian, press twenty-two on your touch-tone now. He's lonely and has flies in his eyes.

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A quote:

"The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder."
Alfred Hitchcock

My motto: "Keep it simple...but carry a big freakin' vocabulary just in case."

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Feel free to leave me a message on my talk page.

Errata

Templates

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Barnstars

		The Barnstar of High Culture
		I, Ganymead, hereby award you the High Culture barnstar, particularly for your excellent devotion to articles relating to Samuel Beckett. 14 April 2006.

		The Template Barnstar
		I, Ganymead, hereby present you the Template Barnstar for you wonderful work on theatre templates! *Exeunt* Ganymead

License

I agree to multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below: