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Name
Grant
Born (1929-02-10) February 10, 1929 (age 95)
NationalityAmerican
Country United States
Current locationPeninsular America
LanguagesEnglish
Time zoneEastern Time Zone
EthnicitySouth African/German parentage
Height6'
Weight190 lbs
Hairlight brown-ish
EyesHazel (with blue flecks)
Handednessright
Blood typeB+
SexualityMostly Straight
Personality typeLaconic, Obscurantist
Family and friends
Marital statusHitched
PetsSeveral
Education and employment
OccupationEditor, Writer, Producer, Cleric
CollegeNew College of Florida
UniversityUniversity of Florida
Hobbies, interests, and beliefs
HobbiesMusic production
ReligionGnostic Taoist
PoliticsOnly a little
Interests

I Ching, Apocrypha, Forteana, Gardening, Travel, Surfing, Boats

Contact info
Websitehttp://guildofscientifictroubadours.com
Twitterhttps://twitter.com/grantimatter
Account statistics
First edit2005

I'm grant, I live in South Florida, and I've been called an obscurantist by those close to me.

My interests include religious mysticism, metaphysics, tabloid culture, Everglades ecology, home recording, indie pop, Asian culture, surfing, vintage fashion, pulp literature, comic books, international adoption, outsider art, entheogenic research, cooking with garlic, marine biology, horror films (watching, criticizing, and making), sailing small boats and fringe science.

It seems like the first edits I made here using this name were to the Saoshyant article in 2005. I must've been writing about Zoroastrian prophecies at the time. (I'm sure I was editing Wikipedia articles before then, but not logging in to do so. It was a different time, you know, and names weren't as important.)

I edit for a living. Currently, for a group of travel publications; in years past, for the Sun tabloid -- the national paper that got the anthrax and had cover stories about Nostradamus and the End Times. Judging from IP records, there seemed to be other Wikipedia contributors elsewhere in the AMI newsroom (we all shared an address).

The first step is admitting you have a problem: I have a thing for online communications media. It was Merlin Mann's Pantywad that made me a wiki junkie, and Tom Coates' Barbelith that made it worse, back in the day. Subsequent to that, I was a trustee and co-founder of Liminal Nation, a community dedicated to rational discussion of spirituality, magic and other less- or more-than-rational topics.

I still operate the science-meets-music organization http://guildofscientifictroubadours.com/ , and sometimes collect and collate ideas at http://grantimatter.tumblr.com .

I'm not especially fond of badges.