Christopher McCabe
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Janitor, fry cook, school bus driver, department store Santa Claus, office jobs, writer, and College English teacher. Retired. |
| Location | Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Introduction | Born in Boston, I grew up there, in Connecticut and in Southern California. I live in Los Angeles with my wife Janet. I started working at sixteen, and since then I've held many jobs, from gardener to janitor, school bus driver to Santa Claus; I've also worked in a dry cleaners, a wood shop, a law firm and fundraising offices. I attended California State Universities at Long Beach and Northridge, earning B.A. and M.A. degrees in English, respectively. I have written for publications, and I began teaching in the late 1990s. From 2001-2016 I was on the English faculty at Pasadena City College. Some of my writing can be found at my blog, Custom Fit Freeway, and at www.christophermccabe.com You can reach me by email: mccabecj@sbcglobal.net |
| Interests | Taking a walk. |
| Favorite Movies | Many by Werner Herzog, Francois Truffaut, Akira Kurosawa, Martin Scorsese, Errol Morris. specific films; Bringing Up Baby, It Happened One Night, Sullivan's Travels, Dr. Strangelove, The Godfather series, Dog Day Afternoon, Young Frankenstein, Waiting for Guffman |
| Favorite Music | Here’s som3(”Ella Fitzgerald (a wonder of the universe), Sonny Clark, Paul Chambers, John Coltrane, Bud Powell (great finger action), Gillian Welch, Howlin’ Wolf, John Lee Hooker, Doug Sahm, Marvin Gaye, The Band, Bob Dylan (lives on every horizontal and latitudinal line), Bob Marley, Townes Van Zandt, Dave Alvin, John Prine (you want joy, he’ll give you joy; you want sadness, he’ll make you cry), Solomon Burke, Jesse Winchester, The Clash (aka Joe Strummer), The Pogues (aka Shane MaGowan), The Replacements, Dylan McCabe |
| Favorite Books | Start with Bill Russell's "Go Up for Glory, ” then take it from there: Anton Chekhov, Ernest Hemingway, Flannery O'Connor, James Baldwin, Raymond Carver, William Trevor, Annie Ernaux, Ian Frazier, Charles Simic, Philip Levine, Arthur Miller, Many unsung heroes of memoir. I’ve read far too little history of Native and Black Americans, and many other topics. |
If mud is dirt plus water, what is clay?
Is that so?