Salty Badger

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Occupation Wielder of the pen
Introduction Mort Artu? Yvain? Erect et Enide? Or another, older character, from out of the misty past? The Salty Badger likes everything with a bit of sepia glossed on top, and lives for two days out of the year: Christmas (as nostalgic as they come), and New Year's day (only because everyone sings 'Auld Lang Syne') ..."Sigh." Everything I write here changes daily. It gets so hard to define me. Who am I? I wonder sometimes?
Interests Reading, Writing, History, Hiking, Kayaking, Rock-climbing, Parkour, Capoeira, Snowboarding, Conservation, Ecology, Vegetarianism, Woodwinds, Celtic Lore, Oral Tradition, Exploration, Primitive Linguistics, Quantum Mechanics (theory), World Mythology, Theological chat/debate, Coffee, Dark Ale/Beer, Old Pubs, Good Friends, Old Books, Older Books, Oldest Books
Favorite Movies Braveheart, Luther, LOTR, Bulletproof Monk, Gladiator, Troy, Underworld, Fight Club, Army of the 12 Monkeys, You've Got Mail, A Christmas Carol
Favorite Music Leonal Power, Claudio Monteverde, Johann Pachelbel, Antonio Vivaldi, J.S. Bach, Dominico Scarlatti, G.F. Handel, J.F. Fasch, Giuseppe Tartini, François-André Danican Philidor, Joseph Haydn, Johann Christian Bach, Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, John Field, Franz Schubert, Carl Maria von Weber, Johann Strauss I & II, Felix Mendelssohn, Frédéric Chopin, Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, Richard Wagner, Giuseppe Verdi, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Xaver Scharwenka, Edward Elgar, Claud Debussy, Dropkick Murphy's, Flogging Molly, Loreena Mckennitt, Enya, Fiona Apple, The Beatles, Evanescence, Linkin Park, Caedmon's Call, Carbon Leaf, Jem, Gregorian, Five for Fighting
Favorite Books The Silmarillion (Tolkien), Tree & Leaf (Tolkien), Farmer Giles of Ham (Tolkien), The Hobbit (Tolkien), Surprised by Joy (Lewis), A Grief Observed (Lewis), Spirits in Bondage (Lewis), Out of the Silent Planet (Lewis), Perelandra (Lewis), That Hideous Strength (Lewis), The Great Divorce (Lewis), Till We Have Faces (Lewis), Mere Christianity (Lewis), The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature (Lewis), The Hunting of the Snark (C.L. Dodgson), Jabberwocky (C.L. Dodgson), Complete Fairy Tales (G. MacDonald), The Wheel of Time (series R. Jorden), Studies on the Life & Writings of S.T. Coleridge, L'Allegro (J. Milton), Works of R. Overton, The Birth of Tragedy (F. Nietzsche), Thus spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None (F. Nietzsche), Pagan Papers (K. Grahame), The Golden Age (K. Grahame), Dream Days (K. Grahame), The Wind in the Willows (K. Grahame), A Wrinkle In Time (M. L'Engle), Little Women (L. Alcott), Eight Cousins (L. Alcott), The Secret Garden (F. Burnett), Bridge To Terabithia (K. Patterson), Tuck Everlasting (N. Babbitt), Frindle (A. Clements), A Christmas Carol (C. Dickens)