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About me

Gender Male
Industry Museums or Libraries
Location Brooklyn, NY, United States
Introduction Occasional dispatches on books, cultural topics, outdoors interests ... and faded glory.
Interests Adirondacks, amphibians, art, backpacks, barns, baseball, Bedouins, children's books, camping, canoes, clouds, cobblestone buildings, Corgi cars, C&O Canal, Constable, Derain, Bernard DeVoto, HRP Dickson, Duluth packs, Erie Canal, Filson, fishing, Gribblenation, guitars, hiking, history, knives, lakes, LibriVox, classic Land Rovers, maps, Maritime Provinces, manual shift driving, Morocco, National Park Service, neon signs, New York State, Norway, Ottoman Empire, Francis Parkman, ponds, Project Gutenberg, regionalism, reptiles, roads, rivers, Rt.66, Sahara Desert, space, stars, tools, trees, Elihu Vedder, vintage 50's, vintage 60's, Vlaminck, wood, wool, World Confluence Project, WW1, 49 Peaks
Favorite Movies Bitter Moon, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Hero, Koyaanisqatsi, Man On Wire, My Dinner With Andre, Scrooge, Triumph of the Nerds, Touching the Void, Two For the Road, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Favorite Music Abraxas, Bartok, Beatles, BeachBoys, Beethoven, Brasil 66, Bread, Dave Brubeck, Kate Bush, Charlie Byrd, Carpenters, The Clancy Bros, John Coltrane, Vladimir Cosma, Miles Davis, Eric Dolphy, Doors, Dylan, Brian Eno, Elton John, Fred Frith, Faust, Gang of Four, Genesis w/Gabriel, Grateful Dead, Grieg, Handel, Peter Hammill, Coleman Hawkins, Jimi Hendrix, Hunky Dory, Imperial Bedroom, Irene Kral, Julie London, Matching Mole, Metallica, Charlie Mingus, Joni Mitchell, Mothers of Invention, Only the Lonely (Sinatra), Oum Khaltoum, Charlie Parker, Anthony Phillips, Pixies, Psychedelic Furs, Quiet Sun, REM, Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade, Roxy Music, Eric Satie, Smiths, Soft Machine, Stranglers, Steve Tibbets, Ultra-Lounge series, VdGG, Wes Montgomery, Wire, Robert Wyatt, XTC
Favorite Books A Time Of Gifts, Annals of the Former World, American Seasons series, American Tabloid, Blood Meridian, The Crossing, The Course of Empire, Goodbye To A River, More Dark Than Shark, Pilgrim At Tinker Creek, Rivers of America series, Series Americana