My blogs

About me

Gender	Male
Industry	Education
Occupation	Retired School Teacher
Location	Seattle, WA, United States
Introduction	I am here to post music videos, book reviews, notes on history and political-economy, movies, literature, whatever strikes my retired school teacher fancy. Maybe inventory family mementos and my overstuffed collections of oldies consumer artifacts, and slowly accumulate an online scrap book blog project thingy as a sort of last will and testament. Which sounds overly melodramatic. I'm thinking more along the lines of journaling or doing crossword puzzles to exercise my fading memories and keep my dull mind as sharp as possible. I'll probably default too much to yelling back at the TV and 24/7 news reports, as you can already see for yourself, but hope to build up some kind of discipline and routine where I can distill down some of my random thoughts on my own haphazard cultural consumption into something more than merely knee-jerk Hot Takes on the daily reports of the decline of western civilization but, you know, times are tough. Anyway, your attention is unexpected and bonus. Thanks.
Interests	Walking, exercise, food, reading, world history, political-economy, popular music, movies/TV, sports, American studies, education, journalism, arts, humanities, nature, etc.
Favorite movies	Now take Groundhog Day, there's a movie I liked. Otherwise, too many faves to name. I have a soft spot for Westerns, and other historical costume dramas, dystopic action thrillers, and old noirish Black & Whites. I'm sure I'll post about more movies I like.
Favorite music	Ditto above; and way, way too many to name. I'm one of those Baby Boomer geezers with a big vinyl record collection; and CDs too. I love dance music, rock & roll, arty ambient sounds, punk, disco, various world musics and, in general, 20th century popular music in its many diffuse styles.
Favorite books	Again, too many to name. See my interests. I lean hard on histories, non-fiction social science-y stuff, political economy in world history is my primary beat, but I've got a narrow thread of Science Fiction going, and love taking on big epic War and Peace-like meta-fiction novels on the semi-regular.