dwt
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Environment |
| Location | Pine Bluff, Arkansas, United States |
| Introduction | See my profile to access other writings and photos of mine, etc, and for my email address. Right click on "Email" to copy address. |
| Interests | Not keeping up with the Joneses, readin' rightin' & 'rithmetic, troll dolls |
| Favorite movies | A Serious Man,The Brother From Another Planet, The Big Lebowski, The Day After Trinity (documentary), Shadowlands, Young Frankenstein, Fantasic Mr. Fox, Dazed & Confused, American Graffiti, The Quiet American (original not remake), The Weather Underground (documentary), From Jesus to Christ (PBS documentary series), The Russians Are Coming/The Russians Are Coming, War Eagle Arkansas, Sullivan's Travels, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Monterrey Pop Festival (D.A. Pennebaker), Keep On Keepin' On, Inside Llewyn Davis, Inside Inside Llewyn Davis, Woman in Gold, Bridge of Spies, The Little Shop of Horrors (1960 Roger Corman version), Youth, The Lady in the Van, The Walk, Poor White Trash, Spotlight, Lady Bird, Won't You Be My Neighbor?, Ship of Fools, The Odessa File, The Making of American Graffiti, The Seventh Seal, The Verdict, Matewan, Vice, Boy Erased, Trumbo, The Trial of the Chicago 7, Tea With Mussolini, The Holdovers, The Congressman (2015, starring the late great Treat Williams 1951-2023, licensed pilot, scuba diver, and, fatefully, motorcyclist), Man With A Movie Camera (Russian1929), Closely Watched Trains (Czech 1966), Blue Moon |
| Favorite music | ArkansasRocks.com Favorite album currently (March 2026) is Quadrophenia, due to Pete Townshend being on Stephen Colbert a while back. Yeah, why don't I listen to some RECENT musics (not a typo)? Like Jesse Welles, for instance? Haven't gotten around to it yet, but would like to! |
| Favorite books | The Last Gentleman, The Moviegoer, Maxwell's Demon: Why Warmth Disperses and Time Passes, Isaac Newton by James Gleick, Coming of Age in the Milky Way, Thermodynamics and an Intro to Thermostatistics (Callen), Dr. Zhivago, The Magic Mountain, The Scientist As Rebel, Good-bye Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War, Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences (Boas), The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics, Mathematics and the Imagination, Hiroshima, Darwin Among the Machines, The Quantum Theory of Light (Loudon), The Second Creation: Makers of the Revolution in 20th Century Physics, Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons the Damascus Accident and the Illusion of Safety, Pain: The Science of Suffering, The Quantum Vacuum (Milonni), Molly Ivins: A Rebel Life, Hold Still, Cry The Beloved Country, A Short History of Nearly Everything, The Theory of Heat Radiation (Planck), Black-body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity 1894-1912 (Kuhn), I'd Hate Myself in the Morning (memoir by Ring Lardner Jr.), Isaac's Storm by Erik Larson (a Christmas 2024 gift to me from Rita Henry and coincidentally a book I gave to my girlfriend in 1999 as a Christmas gift), Larson's 2011 book In the Garden of Beasts (which I read this year) isn't one of my favorites but is very relevant to current politics in the US |