The Jaded Skeptic
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Location | Midwest, United States |
| Introduction | A curmudgeon and soft-heart. A pessimist and optimist. A loner and joiner. Even I get sick of me. I'm... A Neophyte Negotiator of all the Nonsense. An Ornate Opponent of…Oh, you know. A Lover of Levity and the Lectern. An Irreconcilably Irate Idyllist. The Eternal Enemy of Erratum. Just a Solitary Serrated Soul. I'm sorry, what was the question? |
| Favorite movies | The Big Sleep, Blazing Saddles, Army of Darkness, Batman Begins, Dagon, Fletch Lives, Foridden Planet, Galaxy Quest, Ghostbusters, Halloween (1978), An Ideal Husband, Kingdom of Heaven, Land of the Dead, Master and Commander, Much Ado About Nothing, Persuasion (1995), Rocketeer, Sense and Sensibility, Star Trek VI, The Thin Man, V for Vendetta |
| Favorite music | Mainly comedy and audion books, but..., Lisa Angelle, Louis Armstrong, Beethoven Violin Concerto, Meredith Brooks, Kelly Clarkson, Dixie Chicks, Placido Domingo, Gipsyland, Faith Hill, Jolie Holland, The Hollies, Leila Josefowicz's violin work, Nellie McKay, Madeleine Peyroux, Queen, Squirrel Not Zippers, Shania Twain, Sting, John Williams work |
| Favorite books | Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Margery Allingham - The Tiger in the Smoke, Jane Austen - Persuasion, Arthur Conan Doyle - The Red Headed League, Al Franken - Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, Dashiell Hammett - The Thin Man, Stephen Hawking - The Universe in a Nutshell, Robert E. Howard - The Phoenix on the Sword, Garrison Keillor - The Homegrown Democrat, H.P. Lovecraft - The Call of Cthulhu, Edgar Allan Poe - The Murders in the Rue Morgue, Terry Pratchett - The Colour of Magic, J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Carl Sagan - Demon Haunted World, Rex Stout - The Black Mountain, J.R.R. Tolkien - The Hobbit, Sarah Vowell - Assassination Vacation |