Okay, I'm changing my profile -- again, because I suspect that with so many faces here people tend to flit from flower to flower like uncertain bees.

I have a house.

I have a good job.

I even have two vehicles. One is an antique. Guess what it is and I'll wash you car for free.

I'm a novelist and a teacher and I scrub behind my ears, too.

I moved back to Kazoo last summer after some years away following graduate school at WMU. I lived in upstate New York, California, Texas (ugh!). New York was pretty, California is no longer affordable to anyone not already rich, and Texas was just plain too hot and too stupid.

I value honesty and humor in people. I'd like to meet someone attractive and in good physical shape because I think I'm attractive and in decent shape, too. I'm not a player and don't really care to date all over the place. I'm not the club type and have never quite understood the fascination with going someplace where you can't hear anyone talk and the music probably blows, too. As Bob Seeger sang, "Don't take me to a disco, you'll never even get me out on the floor..."

Rock and roll, the blues -- that's what I like best. I'm a huge Rolling Stones fan. If you can't like the Stones, you must be old and mean.

No NASCAR, pleeeeeaase!!!!!

I hate to close the door on women who like motorcycles because I have seen some hot ladies here who ride -- but I'm a car guy.

If you loved The Full Monty then we might have the same type of humor in common.

I'm not a conservative and I'll limit my political discourse here to just saying that I said Bush was an incompetent crook BEFORE he was "elected" and I was right. If you think Sarah Palin is fit to be anything above dog catcher (moose catcher?) in Wasilla, Alaska, you probably shouldn't contact me.

If I can meet someone for a long-term relationship, I'm very open to that.

Im not the one you want if you like predictable men of limited mental capacity who flee their relationships to get to a golf course. I don't always like to fall in line with everyone else and think like everyone else and look like everyone else. I don't wear a baseball cap on backwards and I don't drink Bud Light.

I do my own thinking and follow my own principles and say what I think. No herd mentality for me. Or, as Judy Tenuta once said, "I could have been in a sorority, but I already had a personality."

First date: a drink somewhere nice to talk and learn whether there's chemistry.