The Polar Beast

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About me

Industry Biotech
Occupation Director Of Business Development
Location New Hope, PA, United States
Introduction Transplant from California to the East Coast. Working in translational medicine.
Interests Sitting zazen, my peloton, kayaking, cycling, tasty bottles of wine, live music and theater, TRAVEL, (why do the wrong people travel?), working on the mu koan, museums, galleries, books, books, and books, and movies.
Favorite Movies Some Like It Hot, Citizen Kane, Twelve Angry Men, Auntie Mame, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Shootist, Tootsie, Hondo, Cabaret, Blade Runner, Black Robe, Babette's Feast, The Manchurian Candidate, North-by-Northwest, Vertigo, The Birds, Rear Window, Company, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Apartment, The Odd Couple, The Silence of the Lambs, The Shawshank Redemption, The Unforgiven, Good Will Hunting, Dead Man Walking, The Sixth Sense, The English Patient, Glen Garry Glen Ross, Stardust Memories, Philadelphia, The King's Speech, The "Before" Trilogy, Midnight in Paris, some Star Trek movies, Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?, The 70s Planet of the Apes movies, Brokeback Mountain, A Hologram for the King, Midnight in Paris
Favorite Music Bach, Beethoven, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Bowie, The Rolling Stones, A Piece of Mahler, Sondheim Musicals, West Side Story (er, that's a bit redundant with Sondheim musicals but not totally.)
Favorite Books Shakespeare's plays, poetry by Mary Oliver, Faust, Waiting for Godot, the works of James Baldwin...

You have a red jar of cedar chips. Why do moths miss the forest?

Who wants to travel long distances for a great meal, even if it is a tasty Chanel?