btchakir
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Retired |
| Location | Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States |
| Introduction | 65 this year, First Year Baby Boomer, father and grandfather! No longer teaching at Hagerstown Community College (a relief!)... I am currently Doing a Friday Morning radio program on WSHC FM (89.7). I've done a lot of things in my life -- Network Manager, Teacher, Lighting Designer, Computer Geek, Broadway Producer, Justice of the Peace, Commercial Photographer, Non-Profit Administrator, Publisher, playwright, Usability Tester, Tour Guide in a Candle Factory, Insurance Agent. I have a wife (Elly), two daughters (Cassandra and Penny), a son (Will, who we call Buddy) and four grandsons. In my spare time I play around in community theatres, designing lights and sets or sometimes directing. |
| Interests | Theatre, Photography, Art, Poetry, American Mechanical Check Protectors, History, Dogs, Cinema, Politics, 20th Century Cultural History |
| Favorite movies | La Vie En Rose, M, The Crowd, Continental Divide, The Triplets of Belleville, anything by Kubrick, Bringing Up Baby, Closer, Metropolis, The General, Citizen Kane, The Cabinet of Caligari |
| Favorite music | Frank Zappa, Edith Piaf, Barbara Cook, David Byrne, Prokofiev, Willie Nelson, Jaques Brel, Sondheim, Gershwin, Harry Chapin, Ed Roberts' scores for our 2 children's operas. |
| Favorite books | Against The Day, How Would A Patriot Act?, Mason & Dixon, Finnegans Wake, V., JR, The Collected Works of William Shakespeare, The Crying of Lot 49, The Plays of Bertold Brecht, The Autobiography of Mark Twain. |
You moved the pot before the coffee stopped brewing. Do you smell the mountains or the burro?
I smell the coffee all over the counter and the floor.