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Industry	Education
Occupation	Professor of Communication Studies
Location	Oshkosh, Wisconsin, United States
Links	Audio Clip
Introduction	I teach Communication Studies (First Amendment, Classical Rhetoric, Civic Engagement, Rhetoric of Rock Music) at UW Oshkosh. Served two terms on Oshkosh City Council. Originally from Brooklyn, NY.
Interests	Everything
Favorite movies	Apocalypse Now, Nixon, The Truman Show, Blue Velvet, Taxi Driver, Monty Python's Life of Brian, This is Spinal Tap, American Beauty, Blazing Saddles, Casablanca, many others
Favorite music	Frank Zappa, Gorillaz, Alabama Shakes, Lorde, early Elvis, later Beatles, Yes' "Close to the Edge" album, Holly Near, Joss Stone, Howlin' Wolf, Johnny Cash, Road Trip (Oshkosh band), many others
Favorite books	The Power Broker by Robert Caro, White Noise by Don DeLillo, 1984 by George Orwell, Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, Radio Free Albemuth by Philip K. Dick, Wampeters, Foma, and Granfalloons by Kurt Vonnegut

If you could peer far enough into the night sky, you'd see a star in any direction you looked. When would you sleep?

When the spirit of Carl Sagan overtakes my being and informs me that "discovering the cosmos requires rest, my son."