tony palmeri
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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."