What is your favorite thing about LPSG?
That I've been accepted and usually liked by so many people I admire despite the fact I have a fairly small penis. Ridiculous I know, but it's true.
What is the most difficult thing about organizing the NY LPSG meet & greet?
Trying to accommodate the needs of so many people.
What is your favorite restaurant in NYC?
Aquavit
What is your favorite memory of childhood?
Once a year my mom would wake me on a school day and tell me I didn't have to go to school. Instead we would go into New York and see the museums and a show. We'd have lunch from a cart and then have dinner at an exotic restaurant before seeing a show and come home. Had no idea how valuable that education was at the time either though that it always happened on a school day made me feel I had to earn it and so I paid attention to what I was learning.
What is the best thing about being an adult?
I don't know. It's hard to think of myself as an adult. It really is. I still go to bars and automatically think that I'm not allowed to drink or that I'm far too young to have children or that nobody would ever let me drive a fancy car or handle an expensive
object d'art.
What is your most treasured possession?
I guess my dogs are technically my possessions though I don't think of them that way. Anything else I treasure are irreplaceable heirlooms from my deceased ancestors. Those mean a lot to me and particularly so when they're from one I knew.
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
I suspect that it's to be loved in return as you love someone else though again, I don't know as it has never happened.
Short of that, I love late August evenings when the sky is red-pink and time seems to just hang in the still air, where friends and family are enjoying each other's company, sitting down to a dinner of cold steak and fresh corn on the cob, and just letting the hours pass as the candles and fireflies take light far into the warm darkness.
Who has been the biggest inspiration to you?
Fred Hess, Isaac Asimov, Len Beecher, Thomas Post, Ollie Lay, Jeff Rose, and someone here who I don't care to embarrass.
Where is your favorite vacation?
I likely haven't taken it yet. Until then I'd say I had a great time as kid going to
Lake Mohonk in summer and getting into trouble with the Camp brothers and, of all people, Eli Roth and his brothers. We had a blast.
Jason is___________________because________________________
Jason is a work in progress because he really only just started realizing he's not as awful as he was lead to believe.
Why are you so wise?
Wise?!?! Lord! Even Socrates didn't think himself wise. What i do have is experience and a watchful eye. I have always paid very close attention to how to behave in social situations so that I would be accepted by others. Being the outsider teaches you thinks about what it is to be an insider.
Favorite guilty pleasure?
The Tantric erotic massages i get once a month from my therapist. They really help me to see my body more positively. I'm not someone who, "lets go," during sex. I work really, really, hard to please the other person and, as a result, frequently come away completely frustrated and dissatisfied. These massage sessions help me relax, learn to take pleasure from sex, and to approach sex in a more balanced way. I can't emphasize enough just how negative I have been about how I look and that was even when I was a gym bunny in my late teens looking buff and tight.
The massages also help me feel that I'm less of a boy and more of a man. In a sense the bodywork validates my masculinity in a way my father never did as I was brought-up in a very sexually repressive household. Puberty for me was terrifying as it meant that my parents would know I'd be sexually maturing and, therefore, interested in sex.
Can you look back and think of something you truly regret?
Absolutely. I regret wasting so many years loathing myself, I regret I didn't stand-up for myself when I was young, I regret that I didn't take advantage of many opportunities in work and education, and I regret abusing my dog when I was clinically depressed that I should have been in a hospital (as I later was). Though I don't blame myself, I regret being such a sensitive kid, and I regret not staying in shape or taking care of my teeth as I should have.
Favorite brand of clothing?
I am so completely not a fashion label person. I like Ralph Lauren's stuff but then I was raised as a preppy so I suppose I like his stuff because it's so familiar. Really though, I like nice clothes now and then but I'm really most comfortable in jeans and T-shirt or polo with a pair of sneakers.
What I do truly marvel at is
haute couture done well. I marvel at the skill and craftsmanship that goes into that bespoke hand-made clothing and I believe the designs are, frequently, significant reflections of society. The most stunning collection of clothing that highlights the extraordinary skill that goes into these garments has to be the
spring 2007 Christian Dior collection. These are truly works of art executed in fabric.
Did you play any role in school (e.g. jock, nerd, prince, fat kid, etc..)
Yes and no. I was frequently seen as the smart kid who didn't try very hard and weaseled his way out of everything. I think this is why I've been physically assaulted by not less than three of my teachers through the years merely for things I have said to them. The fact is that learning disabilities were just being discovered when I was finishing high school. My teachers saw my A grades in history, English, and other arts subjects and assumed I should be able to do the same in math and science. It wasn't until I was 16 that I was tested for learning disabilities and found to have an eighth grade math skill. Anything more complicated than basic math is a mystery to me as are any science subjects requiring math formulas.
I was a popular kid in grade school to some extent though the tough I went to a parochial school. The public school kids hated me. They beat me up, called me all kinds of names, and were just horrible. The great majority of my childhood was spent in fear of harm of people more powerful than I was. That's a hell of a thing to say but it's true.
When I got to boarding school I decided there and then that fate wouldn't happen to me. I became popular with everyone, circulating among the various cliques with ease. There were only 188 students in the whole school so it's difficult to say that any group was exclusive. Everybody knew everybody else. That popularity got me student council president in my senior year even though I was nearly kicked out for bad grades due to too much pot smoking and an increasing realization that being the person everyone else wanted me to be was no way to live and be happy with myself.
what's your favorite cookie?
My sister's chocolate chip cookies. They're even better than my grandmother's though based upon the same recipe. They're outstanding and wholly addictive.
