Michael Donovan
My blogs
| Occupation | Secret Agent X-9 |
|---|---|
| Location | Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA |
| Introduction | I'm 51 years old, I live in Minneapolis, I work in an office. I ride the bus. I read a great deal. Send me an email and tell me what you think about - anything! |
| Interests | Dollar Tree, Bread, Gump Worsley, Childish Pranks, Boarding Houses, Napping, British Novels of the 1960s, Radio, Jersey City, Catholicism, Reading, Minnesota History, Writing, P.G. Wodehouse, Slang, Margarine, Baseball, Laurel & Hardy, Robert Burns, Lunch Meat, Pancakes, Andy Capp, Georges Simenon, H.L. Mencken, Irish History, Painting, Eating in Bed, New York City, Benjamin Franklin, Swearing, Newspaper Comics, Sleeping on the Bus, Ramen Noodle Soup, Silent Film, The Green Lantern, Fried Chicken, No. 2 Pencils, Bus Accidents, Chaplin, Chow Mein, Shemp Howard, The Bowery, Chinatown, Judaism, Large Angry Dogs, Spies, Journalism, Soft-Boiled Eggs, Sawdust, W.C. Fields |
| Favorite Movies | Charlie Chan's Greatest Case, Mr. Muggs Steps Out, Arsenic and Old Lace, The General, Shadow of a Doubt, The Man on the Eiffel Tower, The Big House, A Chump at Oxford, Vertigo, The Gold Rush, All Quiet on the Western Front, The Four Feathers, The Thin Man, Frankenstein, Bonnie Scotland, The Lady Vanishes, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Mister Roberts, Gunga Din, Bride of Frankenstein, The Purple Rose of Cairo, The Mouse That Roared, The Informer, Angels With Dirty Faces, The Champ, Dead End, Mysterious Mr. Moto |
| Favorite Music | Tallis, Rachmaninoff, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Prokofiev, Sibelius, Britten, Vaughan Williams, Gershwin, Joquin Turina, The Beatles, Roy Harris, The Clancy Brothers, Leadbelly, Bing Crosby Vladimir Horowitz, Bessie Smith, Al Jolson, Gene Autry, Lily Allen |
| Favorite Books | Spanish Gold, Down and Out in Paris and London, John Barleycorn, Stuart: A Life Backwards, Lament for a Maker, My Man Jeeves, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Robinson Crusoe, Tom Brown's Schooldays, Diary of a Nobody, The Tale of Beatrix Potter, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Borstal Boy, A Cab at the Door, New Grub Street, Meet Mr Mulliner, You Know Me Al, The American Language, Maigret and the Man on the Bench, The Pickwick Papers, The Big Fellow, The Thirty-Nine Steps, The Warden, Death Walks in Eastrepps, Boswell's Johnson, Mr Midshipman Easy, Three Men in a Boat, Beware of the Trains, The People of the Abyss, Peck's Bad Boy And His Pa, Up The Junction, The Bachelors, The Feast Of Lupercal, The Girls of Slender Means, The Picturegoers, Diary of a Provincial Lady |