David McClendon
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Communications or Media |
| Occupation | journalist-editor-writer |
| Location | Lakewood, NJ, United States |
| Introduction | Disease will not define me. How I handle it will define me. I will fight it and win. Defeat is not option. I am a man, a journalist, an instructor and coach. I am also a fighter trying to kick the ass of sarcoidosis, which affects my heart and lungs. My weapons are my words and my body. I research, contemplate and write. I'm writing about my plan to get the disease under control. I can see the goal and I want to achieve it. It may take a while, but I will win the fight. I will keep on top of this until it is controllled. I am not alone. I have a great family, great friends and feel a kinship to millions of people in the U.S. and across the globe battling sarcoidosis and other autoimmune diseases. Some exhibit no hint of the distress and damage the diseases can cause. Others cannot walk up steps or perform basic chores. Because of them, I say I am lucky and blessed. I will put a face on it because I can and others cannot. I can move and will keep on doing what I do until I cannot do it any more. I also look forward to learning how people with sarc and other diseases cope and overcome. We'll also have a little fun along the way. I look forward to making your acquaintance. |
| Interests | Too many to list. Ask and I will tell. |
| Favorite movies | Last of the Mohicans, Killer of Sheep, In the Heat of the Night, The Defiant Ones, Do the Right Thing, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove, The original Pink Panther movies with Peter Sellers, Let’s Do It Again, Shaft, The Planet of the Apes movies (only the originals, no remakes with Marky Mark or apes attached to high wire), Damn near everything Clint Eastwood ever appeared in or directed, 50 First Dates, Silence of the Lambs, Married to the Mob, Jungle Fever, She Hate Me, A Clockwork Orange, Devil in Blue Dress, Carbon Copy, Malcolm X, It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Ray, anything with Denzel Washington or Angela Bassett. |
| Favorite music | Too many to list: Bad Brains, Living Colour, 24-7 Spyz, The Veldt, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Parliament/Funkadelics, Public Enemy, De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest, The Notorious B.I.G., The Family Stand, Eye & I, King’s X, Dinosaur Jr., Adam and the Ants (they were punks before Adam got all glam and “pussycat” on us), Michael Jackson, James Brown, Tool, Jane's Addiction, The Isley Brothers, Barry White, Rush, Stew, The Police. Marvin Gaye, Jimi Hendrix, Cymandi, War, Guns N’ Roses, The Clash, more to come. |
| Favorite books | Another tough one, but here’s another in-no-particular-order list: A list of favorite works and authors: The works of James Baldwin, the works of Toni Morrison, the works of Philip K. Dick, The works of Ray Bradbury, H.G. Wells, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Chuck Palahniuk, Anne Rice, Philip Roth, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Amiri Baraka, Stanley Crouch, Ralph Ellison, Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. DeBois, William Golding, Anthony Burgess, Walter Mosely, Howard Zinn, Studs Turkel, Barbara Tuckman, Lerone Bennett Jr., Alex Haley, John Hope Franklin, Ivan Van Sertura. |
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