Burt Likko
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Law |
| Occupation | Attorney |
| Location | Quartz Hill, California, United States |
| Links | Audio Clip |
| Introduction | One wife, two dogs, two cats. Childless by choice. Attorney (licensed in California and formerly in Tennessee). Aspirations to the bench. Likes: professional football, cooking, good wine, bad science fiction movies, long walks on the beach. Dislikes: People who struggle to accomplish tasks of ordinary difficulty, most country music, willful ignorance, magical thinking, and weak-ass barley pop beer. |
| Interests | cats, cooking, dogs, geography, history, law, music, politics, science, travel, trivia, wine |
| Favorite Movies | Lord of the Rings, The Commitments, Chicago, Silence of the Lambs, Bull Durham, American Beauty |
| Favorite Music | Vapid Eighties music, classical music, Sarah McLachlan, Poe, Natalie Merchant, other weepy female singer-songwriters, Delerium, BT, Swedish Egil, other dance-trance techno, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughn, guitar-driven blues, Texas, Classic rock, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Who |
| Favorite Books | The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, The Baroque Cycle, The Gulag Archipalego, A Noise of War, Guns Germs and Steel, The Autobiography of Henry VIII, Parliament of Whores, Patriots |
Why do you think honeydew is the money melon?
I don't think it is. I have to imagine that the profit margin is higher for watermelons than for honeydews, casavas, cantaloupes, or crenshaws.