J-C Spires
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Location | Harrogate, Tennessee, United States |
| Introduction | Gentle, easy-going single parent, more affable than rumor would have it. Seven children. Six grandchildren. Retired journalist. U.S. Census agent. And, oh yeah, I'm a gay man. Jdaddy at www.lifeout.com. Jdaddybear at Twitter. James-Clifton Spires at Facebook. Jdaddy1951 at Huffington Post. Julia Sugarbaker at www.npr.org. |
| Interests | Parenting. Gay Culture and Civil Rights. Black Belt in Communications. Not Suffering Fools. Annoying the Radical Christian Right by Simply Existing. Sharpening My Tongue. Having my NPR Accounts Deleted. Revenge Fantasies. Singing Karaoke. Aggravating My Children and Grandchildren for Their Own Good. |
| Favorite movies | Brokeback Mountain, Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte, Sordid Lives, In & Out, Mildred Pierce, Nashville, East of Eden, The Last of Sheila, Steel Magnolias, Four Weddings and a Funeral, anything by Alfred Hitchcock, John Waters, most things by Quentin Tarantino. |
| Favorite music | Patsy Cline, Janis Joplin, Mozart, Vivaldi, Fats Waller, Louis Armstrong, Nat King Cole, Ray Charles, Dolly Parton, Bobbie Gentry, Kay Starr, Eartha Kitt, Dixieland, bluegrass, pretty eclectic tastes. |
| Favorite books | Good Times/Bad Times (James Kirkwood) To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee) A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens) Pudd'n'head Wilson (Mark Twain) Rebecca (Daphne du Maurier) Gone with the Wind (Margaret Mitchell) Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte) Randy Shilts, John Grisham, Fannie Flagg, Agatha Christie, Ethan Mordden, John Irving, Saki, Jane Austen |