The Bear
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Publishing |
| Occupation | Agitator, Writer, Criminal Defense (Ret.) |
| Location | Zoar, The Woodlands, United States |
| Introduction | Famous 1320-year-old Bear. Enjoys writing dubious novels, guitar, & company of his driver, bodyguard, factotum, and lawful wife, Red Death. Quote: “Nail your foot to the floor of your favorite pew and DIE THERE.” |
| Interests | Catholicism, Cultural Critique, Movies, Writing, Songwriting and Guitar, Music, Reading good books, Tech, Board Gaming, and aviation. |
| Favorite movies | Swing Time, Bachelor Mother, (i.e. Ginger Rogers), The Women (Original 1940 version), His Girl Friday, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Ben Hur (both silent & Heston versions), Airplane, The Godfather (1 and 2), Otto e Mezzo (81/2), Gone With the Wind, The Red Shoes (sucker for Powell & Pressburger), Gettysburg, Gods and Generals, The Conversation (original version), Mulholland Drive, and many others |
| Favorite music | Steely Dan, Donald Fagen, Pink Floyd, Roger Waters, Regina Spektor, Jethro Tull, Leonard Cohen, Gillian Welch (Americana in general), ELO, ELP, Supertramp, Queen, Sade, Orthodox Chant, our eight Benedictine Tones, Chopin—eclectic, but don’t care for most of what Apple Music pushes. |
| Favorite books | The Bible (Douay-Rheims), The Brothers Karamazov, St. Louis de Montfort, The Rule of St. Benedict, Confessions & The City of God by St. Augustine, Guns of August & A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman, anything by G.K. Chesterton or George MacDonald Fraser. The Velveteen Rabbit. |