Gender	Male
Industry	Technology
Occupation	wandering cleric/ bookseller
Location	United States
Introduction	Easily distinguished but no one special.
Interests	History and history unfolding, Internet forums, vintage movies and radio, people and how we get this way, family and friends...
Favorite movies	Life With Father, The Bank Dick, One Reel Wonders (on TCM), Andy Hardy, The Shop Around The Corner, The Best Years Of Our Lives, Being There, The In-laws (1978)
Favorite music	Bob Dylan, and anyone he likes or takes after, Talking Heads, hell I don't know. Roy Orbison!
Favorite books	Philip Roth, J.P. Donleavy, Any Raymond Chandler, P.G. Wodehouse, Thurber, Paul Fussell, James Lileks, Conrad's sea-going stories

When you open your eyes underwater, do you ever worry that you'll drown?

No but while swimming laps I have vertigo over the deep end.