John Ross Barnes

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About me

Gender Male
Industry Maritime
Occupation Teak Brightwork Restoration
Location Portland, Oregon, @barnestormjohn on twitter, United States
Introduction Maker of oddities: #AmWriting, Friday Flash fiction, Haiku, Gogyohka. Random-Abstract Tendencies. Reading, Art, Music, Photography, The woods. Scattered in the Fog, INFJ barnestorm2004@aol.com
Interests The Nature of Reality(or is it the Reality of Nature)Art, Reading, Writing, Music, Guitar, the Art of living, Photography, Native American culture, (registered Northern Cherokee of the old Louisiana Territory and some Choctaw), the Oregon coast, The woods in general
Favorite Movies I am no longer sure what my favorites really are... I like most things Pixar, many Dreamworks, Light on Drama, Heavy on visuals, adventures, Romantic comedy ok, some scifi/horror...
Favorite Music Eric Clapton, Crowded House, Suzanne Vega, Shawn Colvin, T-Bone Burnett, Rock, Blues, Folk, some classical, some country, some cool jazz, Rhapsody n Blue
Favorite Books The River Why, Skinny Legs and All, All Tomorrow's Parties, Neverwhere, Tom Robbins, Pattern Recognition, Jitterbug perfume, Terry Pratchett, William Gibson, many others

You have to dig a hole to China. Where do you start?

With a lot of misgivings. Couldn't we just take a plane?