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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Communications or Media |
| Occupation | Storyteller |
| Location | Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| Introduction | Living on the easternmost edge of North America (although somehow closer to Rio de Janeiro than N.Y.C., go figure) gives one the opportunity to have a lot of perspective. Maybe too much. It's a bit removed, but so am I, so it all works out in the end. Here I am, like a pop cultural Amelia Earhart, wondering when the food will run out. |
| Interests | Wizard of Oz, Moxie, old toys, 3-D, vinyl, old movies, Buster Keaton, Tintin, riding my bike, I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, The Goon Show, Spike Milligan, movie posters, pinball, Scrabble, cartoons, film noir, pre-code, chili, hummus |
| Favorite Movies | Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Pinocchio, The Man Who Would Be King, The General, Brother of Sleep, Ran, A Shot in the Dark, Bob le Flambeur, Peeping Tom, Pandora's Box, Out of the Past, Coal Black and De Sebben Dwarfs, Garden State, The Conversation, Vertigo, The Girl Can't Help It, The Great Silence, Once Upon a Time in the West |
| Favorite Music | The Kinks, The Damned, Richard Thompson, Fairport Convention, Guided By Voices, The Beach Boys, The Hollies, Kid Koala, Art Pepper, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Raymond Scott, The Jayhawks, Sloan, Sarah Harmer, Magnetic Fields, Nilsson, Elvis Costello, XTC, Fats Waller, Hank Snow, Hank Williams, Webb Pierce, Merle Haggard, George Jones, Loretta Lynn, Wanda Jackson, Jerry Lee Lewis, Al Tuck |
| Favorite Books | Oz series, Catch 22, 1984, Tales of Mystery and Imagination, S.J. Perelman, Nufonia Must Fall, The Blue Lotus, Please Kill Me, Red Harvest, Farewell My Lovely, The Kill-Off, Jeux des Dames Cruelles, Earthly Powers, Uncle Silas |
The children are waiting! Please tell them the story about the bald frog with the wig:
If you think I'm gonna kiss that frog, you're crazy.