Maxwell Philbrook

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About me

Occupation Writer, Teacher, Problem Solver
Location MPLS, MN, United States
Interests Rhetoric, Critical Pedagogy, Container Gardening, Post-45 American Lit, Minnesota Sports teams, Pizza, Writing about Reading, Reading about Writing, contemplation, living in color, blogging, studying, teaching, Composition, Rhetoric, Composition/Rhetoric, Composition & Rhetoric
Favorite Movies Fight Club, Life is Beautiful, Factotem, Space Balls, Pi, Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Blazing Saddles, Nacho Libre, Toy Story, Toy Story 2, Toy Story 3, Young Frankenstein, City of God, Perros Amor, High Noon, 30 Days of Night, Tron, Goonies, Tropic Thunder, Body of Lies, Borat, Food Inc., Botany of Desire, Our Daily Bread, True Grit, The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, The Fall, The King's Speech, Hunger Games, Inside Llewyn Davis, The Artist, Django Unchained
Favorite Music Jazz, Metal, Jazz-metal, Punk, Jam, Guitar Rock, Funk, Bluegrass, Newgrass, Speedgrass, Wheatgrass, Hickgrass, Soul, Beatles
Favorite Books Rhetoric of Motives, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, The Omnivore's Dilemma, Stuffed and Starved, Argument Culture, Drop City, Baseball Strategies, Lies my Teacher Told Me, Food Politics, The Old Man and the Sea, Of Mice and Men, Tender is the Night, Down and Out in Paris and London, Going After Cacciato, Less than Zero, Welcome to the Monkey House, Celestine Prophecy, Redwall, Sula, Night, Charlotte's Web, On Strategy, Darkly Dreaming Dexter, Dharma Bums, Her, Coming back to the Body, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Till we Have Faces, The Joke, Franny and Zooey, The Sound and the Fury, Pimp: The Story of my Life, Fight Club, Their Eyes were Watching God, Cold Mountain, The Road, Better Off, Invisible Man, Walk Two Moons, Breakfast of Champions, Hunger Games, Custom of the Country, Tomatoland, College (Un)Bound, Nickel and Dimed, Technical Communication, Mistborn, Game of Thrones