Gender	Male
Industry	Accounting
Occupation	Editor/writer/etc.
Location	Oakland, California, United States
Introduction	Born May 20, 1937. Primary preoccupation: Writing. Also photography, mobile making, collages, etc. Tai chi. Retired, but do a bit of editing, proofing, writing for extra cash. Gay. May the U.S. Empire deflate and a U.S. democracy be born. Born on 20 May 1937 (Taurus-Gemini cusp, if you like that sort of thing). The photo here is by my friend Fred Goldsmith who has made me appear as more than I am.
Interests	Writing, Photography, Progressive Politics
Favorite movies	Sunrise, Member of the Wedding, A Place in the Sun, The Decalogue, City Lights, Some Like It Hot, All About Eve, A Streetcar Named Desire, Summer and Smoke -- and a thousand more.
Favorite music	Completely various: Stravinsky, Sibelius, and the usual classical composers. Billie Holiday, June Christy, Kathleen Ferrier, Leontyne Price, Peggy Lee. 1930s and 1940s vocalists and jazz. Pre-Nashville country music. Etc. Etc.
Favorite books	Brothers Karamazov, On the Black Hill, The Sound and the Fury, In Cold Blood, My Antonia, Reading Turgenev, Shakespeare, et al.

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