Bill Abbott

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About me

Gender Male
Location Oakland, California, United States
Interests A recreational user of, words, music, model airplanes, cameras, VWs, timeless and beautiful things, a diner, a cook, an artist, and a critic, since 1956
Favorite Movies Tampopo, His Girl Friday, Casablanca, Le Mans, My Friend Tortoro
Favorite Music Saint-Sains, CSNY, The Who, Aretha Franklin, Prokofiev, Bela Fleck & the Flecktones, Strunz & Farah, Joni Mitchell, Buzzcocks, Ian Dury & The Blockheads, Don Byron, The Allman Brothers Band, Hot Tuna, Jefferson Airplane, Carol Kaye, Julie London, The Beatles (yay!)
Favorite Books The Art and Science of Grand Prix Racing, Assembling California, A Brief History Of Time, Broadsides From The Other Orders, The Caine Mutiny, The Cuckoo's Egg, Dune, Emma, The Feynman Lectures on Phisics, Five Equations That Changed The World, The Gold Cell (Sharon Olds), Gorky Park, How We Invented The Airplane (Wright Bros.), Howl, Incredible Victory, The Lord of the Rings, The Maltese Falcon, The Man Who Walked Through Time, Maus I & II, My Family and Other Animals, The Periodic Table, Sense & Sensebility, Snow Falling on Cedars, Synapsida, Taking Wing, The Wasteland & Other Poems, Winnie The Pooh & The House at Pooh Corner. The Wisdom of Bones

Why does the porrige bird lay its eggs in the air?