The Mad Dog

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About me

Gender Male
Industry Non-Profit
Occupation Champion of the Oppressed
Location Land of Enchantment, USA
Introduction Poet, philosopher, Libertarian...with boiling blood and a cool spirit.
Interests RangerAgainstWar.blogspot.com; Reading(sci-fi, horror, crime), nature, poetry, blogging, good coffee, good tobacco(snus), raising hell, war, peace, veterans issues, philosophy, God(and all things pertaining to the existence or non existence thereof), politics, monkeys, a good laugh, good music, mental illness (depression, mania, PTSD), et al. (THIS BLOG IS DEDICATED TO MY MENTOR, JOHN C. MADIGAN).
Favorite Movies Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels...Trains, Planes and Automobiles...Apocalypse Now...Forest Gump...Hell Raiser...Dirty Harry...A Fist Full of Dollars...Reservoir Dogs...Pulp Fiction...O Brother Where Art Thou?...Raising Arizona...Fargo...Miller's Crossing...The Ladykillers...No Country For Old Men...Boondock Saints
Favorite Music Rock(all kinds), Southern Rock(like Lynyrd Skynyrd, Z.Z Top, and The Allman Bros.) jazz(like Miles Davis), blues(like Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Blues Traveler and Jonny Lang), classic country(like Johnny Cash and Merle Haggard), Independent/Alternative (like the John Popper Project, Barenaked Ladies, R.E.M., U2, Green Day, Tool, A Perfect Circle, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits), Transcendental (like Gregorian, Enigma), Celtic (from the Cranberries to Clannad, contemporary and traditional).
Favorite Books Just about anything written by Stephen King, Samuel Clemmons(Mark Twain), Colm Toibin, Elmore Leonard, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Henry Miller, Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg, Leonard Cohen, Peter Straub, et. al.

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