27 year Oakland native. Enthusiast of waterpolo, rowing, college a capella (The Tufts Beelzebubs, if you must know), theatre, local politics, city planning, mass transit planning, bicycle culture, Japanese history, history in general, fantasy novels, anime, and (oh yeah!) this sports team; you may have heard of them, the Oakland Athletics? Yeah, they're the tops.

I've done some writing at abetteroakland.com under the deviously misleading handle "Chris Kidd", which may or may not actually be my real name.

I'm one of those awful ivory-tower, self-centered, douchebag graduate students. I'm currently getting my masters in Urban Planning at USC. Once I graduate, I'll know better than you how you should be living. So there! Smart growth, livable urban streetscapes and public transit for all! MWAHAHAHAHHA.......

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