Eclectic Iconoclast
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| Gender | Female |
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| Location | Bellevue, Nebraska, United States |
| Introduction | I grew up connected to the Air Force; I've at least visited 48 of our 50 states, and lived in a good 12 of them; I've also lived in both Europe and Southeast Asia. As a result, I am at once sick to death of moving and yet enamored of travelling. I love history because it's the door to everything. I admire craftsmanship, honesty, and integrity. I am a stickler for good grammar and punctuation. Abraham Lincoln is one of my personal heroes. There is nothing better than a good laugh to keep one's sanity in this crazy world. I like being left-handed in a right-handed world. |
| Interests | Politics, the Supreme Court, history, all things Irish, music, pets, baseball, home dec, cooking, counted cross-stitch, crochet, knitting, science, space, movies, antiques and collectibles, medical and health care issues, humor, playing at being a wine snob |
| Favorite movies | Young Frankenstein, The Quiet Man, The Philadelphia Story, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Field of Dreams, Citizen Kane, Apollo 13, the Road Movies (especially The Road to Morocco), Mister Roberts, Casablanca, The Enemy Below, Operation Petticoat, Some Like It Hot, Dr. Strangelove or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb, On The Town (and every other Gene Kelly musical) |
| Favorite music | Beethoven, the Beatles (singly and collectively), Spike Jones (God help us!), Benny Goodman, Ray Charles, Mannheim Steamroller, Gilbert and Sullivan, Prince, classic Motown, Lyle Lovett, the Chieftans (and anything else Irish/Celtic), Enya, Simon and Garfunkel, Duke Ellington, Wierd Al Yankovic, George Gershwin, Tom Lehrer, Peter Schickele (a/k/a PDQ Bach) |
| Favorite books | Homegrown Democrat, Why Lincoln Matters, Will in the World, Allan Nevins' entire Civil War output, all Bloom County and Peanuts and Garfield and The Far Side and Calvin and Hobbes collections, History of the Irish Race, A Preface to Chaucer, Lost Moon, A Brief History of Time, all Shakespeare, all Mark Twain, The Personal Memoirs of US Grant, Idylls of the King, The Grapes of Wrath, Presumed Innocent, anything by James Thurber, anything by Ogden Nash |
You have to dig a hole to China. Where do you start?
At the beginning, of course. It's a Zen thing.