richardcthompson

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Gender Male
Industry Arts
Occupation Cartoonist
Location Arlington, VA, United States
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Introduction Nothing to see here. Move along, please.
Interests Not falling over, Putting things down and forgetting about them, piano, walking places for no good reason, perfecting my pen-throwing skills, dynamiting fish, dynamiting pianos, naps, reading books as far as page 30 then giving up, flying off on a tangent, not learning how to play the banjo, fogetting how to play the bagpipes, buying art supplies I'll never get around to using, hats, coffee, Irish pubs, listing things, Dealing with Parkinson's
Favorite Movies Local Hero, Laurel & Hardy, Spirited Away, Marx Brothers, The Big Lebowski, Lon Chaney, Ratatouille, Toy Story, Gregory's Girl, Comfort and Joy, The Incredibles, The Iron Giant, Most of the Lord of the Rings, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Jackie Chan, that movie I forget the title with that guy who's a maverick who plays by his own rules and his hard-bitten boss tells him he's way out of line but he stomps out and slams the door
Favorite Music Brahms, bagpipes, opera, (if it's in a language I don't understand), Baltimore Consort, Beethoven, Ravel, Debussy, Mozart, Wagner, Bach 'n' Gould, Anything Scottish or Irish (except that Unicorn Song which is by Shel Silverstein anyway), Raymond Scott, me just humming tunelessly
Favorite Books Mark Twain, Evelyn Waugh, Beverly Cleary, JRR Tolkien, James Thurber, Roald Dahl, Roz Chast, Philip Pullman, Terry Pratchett, Pat Oliphant, Ronald Searle, Ralph Steadman, Walt Kelly, Geo Herriman, John Crowley, SJ Perelman, Dinty Spinalzo, Quentin Blake, Mo Willems, Bill Watterson, Lyonel Feininger, Daumier, Lizbeth Zwerger, Edgar Degas, yes I know it says Books not Authors and I'm including cartoonists and artists in it too