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About me

Gender	Male
Industry	Education
Occupation	retired English teacher
Location	Loveland, CO, United States
Introduction	Born in New York City, grew up in Denver, moved to Austin for doctoral work, escaped back to Colorado when I retired. BBA Accounting, Colorado State (then Coopers & Lybrand, i.a.), MBA Info Systems, U of Colorado (then American Management Systems, i.a.), was eventually able to flee Corporate America (round peg in square hole) for the Academy, there to immerse myself in the Humanities. MA English Lit, U of Colorado, PhD English Lit, U of Texas. Taught college for five years (while at CU and UT) then made deal with the devil (teaching high school English) for health care, pension, regular hours, no more preasure to publish, and being able to buy a house and settle down.
Interests	Playing the piano, listening to music way too loud, going to junk-food movies, sitting at a nice bar drinking Guinness and watching sports while doing crosswords, reading thought-provoking books, watching Keith Olberman, Rachel Maddow, and Jon Stewart as time allows, and puttering around the house and yard.
Favorite movies	Roxanne, Blade Runner, One From the Heart, The Magic Christian, The Professional, Runaway Train, Little Murders, Last Man Standing, The Unforgiven, The Blues Brothers, Zardoz, Equus, M. Butterfly, Brannagh's Hamlet, Malkovich's The Glass Menagerie, McKellan's Richard III, DiCaprio's Romeo and Juliet, Huston's The Dead, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Young Frankenstein, anything by Ken Russell, and pretty much anything in 3D.
Favorite music	Classical music (primarily Beethoven to Rachmaninoff), and hard rock/metal (go fig).
Favorite books	Santayana's "Skepticism and Animal Faith" and "The Life of Reason", Dewey's "Theory of the Moral Life", Skinner's "Beyond Freedom and Dignity" and "About Behaviorism", everything by Dawkins, and Delillo's "White Noise".