Rick Bayan
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| Gender | Male |
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| Industry | Communications or Media |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Location | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Introduction | My roots as a moderate extend back to the Vietnam era, when I first found myself caught in the barren no-man's-land between the battling right and left. I'm probably best known as the author of The Cynic's Dictionary and webmaster of The Cynic's Sanctuary. For more information about me, visit my author's page, BAYANology. |
| Interests | Reading, movies, art, hiking, birdwatching, photography, baseball, collecting historic voice recordings on the Internet |
| Favorite movies | David Copperfield, Dr. Zhivago, King Kong, Modern Times, City Lights, Top Hat, The Jazz Singer, The Third Man, The Quiet Man, The Wizard of Oz, The Shining, Holiday, Never Give a Sucker an Even Break, Duck Soup, Rosemary's Baby, Lady and the Tramp, Lolita, Black Orpheus, The Sixth Sense |
| Favorite music | Nearly anything by Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Scott Joplin, Gershwin, Louis Armstrong, Antonio Carlos Jobim or the Beatles. |
| Favorite books | The Odyssey, Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, Frankenstein, Oliver Twist, Fathers and Sons, The Brothers Karamazov, Alice in Wonderland, The Great Gatsby, The Mencken Chrestomathy, The Book of Marvels (Orient and Occident), Edwin Mullhouse |