Joseph Marshall
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Location | Columbus, Ohio, United States |
| Introduction | I have returned from darkness and quiet. I used to style myself as "Joe Claus", Santa Claus’ younger brother because that is what I still look like. I wrote my heart out about liberal politics until June of 2006, when all that could be said had been said. I wrote until I could write no more and I wrote what I best liked to read when I was young and hopeful: the short familiar essays in Engish and American periodicals of 50 to 100 years ago. The archetype of them were those of G.K. Chesterton, written in newspapers and gathered into numerous small books. I am ready to write them again. I am ready to write about life as seen by the impoverished, by the mentally ill, by the thirty years and more of American Buddhist converts, and by the sharp eyed people [so few now in number] with the watcher's disease, the people who watch and watch and watch. I am all of these. |
| Interests | Politics, Buddhism, Mental Illness |
| Favorite movies | Casablanca, Roshmonon, The Rules of the Game, Ugetsu, Notorious, Rope, Animal Crackers, The Maltese Falcon. |
| Favorite music | Count Basie's 1970's small groups on Pablo, Duke Ellington's post-1950 albums, Miles Davis' first quartet, Magic Sam's West Side Soul, The Essential Muddy Waters, Junior Wells' Hoodoo Man Blues, Grateful Dead's Blues For Allah, Rolling Stones' Sticky Fingers |
| Favorite books | Bleak House, Ada, Ulysses, Black Spring, Aion, Gravity's Rainbow, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Red Harvest, Lady In The Lake, The Three Coffins, The Blind Barber, The Golden Spiders, The Tale of Genji, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Code of the Woosters, Uncle Fred in the Sprintime, The Collected Poems of W.B.Yeats |