Bumper Sticker Wisdom
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | teacher |
| Location | Oregon, United States |
| Introduction | Every retiree needs a hobby and this will be mine. If I were to choose some good effect of my having been on the planet, I would want to make the American plutocracy as uncomfortable as possible and restore dignity and security to the rest of us. |
| Interests | American History, modern military history, in situ economics, politics, unionism, music, Oregon New Deal legacy and history, harmonica/guitar, bar jokes, animal jokes, Columbia Gorge, Mt Hood, Oregon coast, 66/67 Pontiac GTO, getting both children through college |
| Favorite Movies | The Two Towers, Casa Blanca, 30 Days of Night, Blade Runner, Minority Report, Schindler's List, The Day After Tomorrow, Groundhog Day, As Good as It Gets, My Cousin Vinny, Independence Day, Fargo, Terminator - 1 and 2, The Sixth Sense, Matewan, When the Last Sword Is Drawn, The Last of the Mohicans, Blast from the Past, Alien, Enemy at the Gates, The Civil War by Ken Burns, The Silence of the Lambs, Road Warrior, Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead, Downton Abbey, Doc Martin, The Exorcist |
| Favorite Music | Eric Clapton, Sarah McLaughlin, The Black Keys, John Lee Hooker, Wilson Picket, Cindy Lauper, Robert Johnson, Tallest Man on Earth, Jimi Hendrix, Dylan, Son House, Bukka White, Mozart, Leadbelly, Copland, Lady Ga Ga, Bernstein, Aretha Franklin, Linda Ronstadt, Bach, Beethoven, Scarlatti, Gilbert and Sullivan, a selection of contemporary pop of the last 50 years |
| Favorite Books | Total War - Calvocoressi and Wint, Russia's War - Overy, The 13 Clocks - Thurber, A Fool and His Money - Rothschild, The Plague - Camus, Autobiography of Ulysses S Grant, The Battle Cry of Freedom - McPherson, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, A Tale of Two Cities - Dickens, Liar's Poker - Lewis, Brave New World - Huxley, On the Beach - Shute, The Jungle - Sinclair, How to Talk Dirty and Influence People - Bruce, The Sheep Look Up - Brunner, The Guns of August - Tuchman, The Foundation Trilogy - Asimov, How to Repair Your Volkswagen: a Step by Step Manual of Procedures for the Compleat Idiot, The End of Affluence - Ehrlich, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee -Brown, Peter Skene Ogden: Fur Trader - Binns, The Naked Ape - Morris, The Silent Language - Hall, The Glory and the Dream - Manchester, Sophocles' Trilogy, Up Front - Mauldin, The Herblock Book - Block |