Philip Snider
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Professor of English |
| Location | Western Washington |
| Introduction | English professor and critical thinker |
| Interests | Film, literature, history, politics, argumentation, life liberty and property, and riding a tall sorrel gelding in my antique cavalry saddle. |
| Favorite movies | Anything by Buster Keaton, most anything by Howard Hawks/John Ford/John Huston/Frank Capra/George Cukor. Casablanca, Lilies of the Field, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The Best Years of Our Lives, The Searchers, A Man for All Seasons (the Paul Scofield version), Tootsie, Unbreakable, The Prestige, I am Legend. |
| Favorite music | 1930's jazz, 1940's Big Band, 1940-50's Boogie (Ella Mae Morse/Gene Krupa/Ella Fitzgerald), Ray Charles, Les Paul and Mary Ford, Jazz/Ska (BBVD/Squirrel Nut Zippers) |
| Favorite books | The short fiction of Rudyard Kipling, the novels of Dickens/Fielding/Thackeray/James Clavell and Tom Clancy (his own not his collaborations), Beowulf, Shakespeare, Chaucer, Milton, WWII histories (Atkinson more than Ambrose). |