The Loon
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Publishing |
| Occupation | retired, mostly |
| Location | **Adrift, South of Texas, United States |
| Introduction | A child of the Southwest and of the 50s -- a woman who knew me well once said, 'Yeah, the 1850s.' Generally culturally conservative and distrustful of new and improved innovative change. Very seldom overtly serious, but many a truth is spoke in jest and all of my truths are. Worked my way through UT when I was up in my 30s. If I'd, by some horrible miscalculation ended up in Bryan, I would've worked my way through that school over there. Have worked all over in printing and publishing. I've held a bunch of jobs and quit all of them but one. I am a journeyman printer and followed the trade and heard its dying gasps as it was throttled by technological change. I had a sponsored blog on a newspaper but quit the job. |
| Interests | Reading, cooking & eating, travel, power-sitting and competitive indolence, cigar-smoking, wine-bibbing, observations on the vagaries of life |
| Favorite Movies | Most Humphrey Bogart, most Robert Mitchum, 40s noir, The Wild Bunch, Godfathers I & III, the Jackie Chan-Owen Wilson pix but especially Shanghai Noon, Mel Brooks [the director for the snickerng little boy in all of us], particularly Blazing Saddles |
| Favorite Music | Old -- country, rock 'n' roll, doowop or big band, harpsichord or dobro, but old. |
| Favorite Books | Theory of the Leisure Class, Thorstein Veblen; anything by A.J. Liebling; Print in a Wild Land; pretty near anything by Elmore Leonard; most history from regional to global; Oxford Book of English Verse but in older editions, as recently they've got so damn inclusive and PC that they've dropped good poets to make room for bad ones; A Shropshire Lad; The Virginian; most Graham Greene; Wm. Butler Yeats. This will expand. |