MichaelKruse
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Communications or Media |
| Occupation | St. Petersburg Times |
| Location | Downtown St. Pete, The Fla., United States |
| Interests | People who go to bars alone, people who make long commutes, people who work out at 1 a.m., little handmade signs on the side of the road, huge houses that have almost no furniture in them and the people who live there, Walden, Brooksville, structure, reversals of fortune, sandhill cranes picking at grass in front of strip centers, things nocturnal, third places, ties worn with T-shirts, liberty spikes, Davidson basketball, grayness, borderlessness, name tags, nudists, Gangrey.com, U.S. 19, U.S. 41, U.S. 98, the unchaining of chains, fat personal trainers, ultratalkative cashiers at Publix, the older men who show up at every McDonald's everywhere every morning of the year, how absolutely certain they are about the things they talk about, how they got that way, the Tim Tebow phenomenon, steroids in sports, the genetic performance enhancement that's right around the corner, anything that threatens the NCAA cartel, the shifting ground under the sports entertainment industrial complex in this country, why I hear words but not lyrics, why I used to be real cocky, why I'm not anymore and what the hell happened there and the ways in which that's a good thing and the ways in which it's not. |
| Favorite movies | American Beauty, The Shawshank Redemption, Stand By Me, Sling Blade, Billy Madison, Lost in Translation, 25th Hour, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Fight Club, Almost Famous, American History X, Good Will Hunting, Traffic, Stranger Than Fiction, Little Miss Sunshine, Garden State, Sicko, Juno, Into The Wild, No Country For Old Men, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. |
| Favorite music | Ben Folds, David Gray, Bright Eyes, Shiny Toy Guns. |
| Favorite books | Here is New York, Semi-Tough, The Last American Man, Nickel and Dimed, We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families, Carry My Bones, Eat Pray Love, What A Time It Was, Hey Rube, No Country for Old Men, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty, The Corpse Had a Familiar Face, Candy Girl, Moneyball, American Psycho, Playing for Keeps, Joe Gould's Secret, Into the Wild, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, A Sense of Where You Are, Roads, The Road, On The Road, In Cold Blood, The Forever War, All Over but the Shoutin', The Catcher in the Rye, Dispatches, Love in the Driest Season, The Lovely Bones, Off Ramp, Slaughterhouse-Five, Charlotte's Web, I Want to Thank My Brain for Remembering Me, Travels with Charley, The Last Shot, The Orchid Thief, Pull Me Up, Friday Night Lights, Kick Ass, Citrus, Sawmills, Critters and Crackers, Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet out of Idaho. |