historymike
- Gender: Male
- Industry: Education
- Occupation: Writer/Historian/Editor
- Location: Toledo : Ohio : United States
About Me
Michael is a historian, journalist, acrophobe, and geek who writes on a wide variety of topics.
You've been entered in a shadow puppet contest. What's your best pose?
Injured wombat.
Interests
- Playing guitar
- conducting experiments in urban agriculture
- learning new languages
- European history
- Latin American history
- colonial Atlantic history
- epidemiological history
- Russian history
- journalism
- politics
- literature
- animal rescue
- dogs.
Favorite Movies
- Raising Arizona
- Purple Rose of Cairo
- Pulp Fiction
- Война и Мир (War and Peace)
- Contact
- Phenomenon
- Life is Beautiful
- Christmas Vacation
- The Kids Are Alright
- Seven Samurai.
Favorite Music
- Bruce Springsteen
- Chris Isaak
- The Replacements
- The Who
- Pete Townshend
- XTC
- The White Stripes
- Amália Rodrigues
- Nick Drake
- Beatles
- John Lennon
- Paul McCartney
- George Harrison
- U2
- Phish
- Paul Simon
- Simon & Garfunkle
- The Clash
- Violent Femmes
- Pink Floyd
- REM.
Favorite Books
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- A Confederacy of Dunces
- A Canticle for Liebowitz
- Crime and Punishment
- Metamorphosis
- Catcher in the Rye
- The Plague
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
- Fathers and Sons
- On the Road
- House of Leaves
- Franny and Zooey.
