Michael Brooks
- Gender: Male
- Industry: Education
- Occupation: Writer/Historian/Editor
- Location: Toledo : Ohio : United States
About Me
Michael is a historian, journalist, and geek who writes on many subjects.
You're trapped in a well with a goat and a slinky. Describe how you will escape.
I'd strangle the goat with the slinky, then use the hair fibers of the dead goat to make a rope.
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
- reading literature.
Favorite Movies
- Raising Arizona
- Purple Rose of Cairo
- Trainspotting
- Война и Мир (War and Peace)
- Contact
- Phenomenon
- Life is Beautiful
- Christmas Vacation
- The Kids Are Alright.
Favorite Music
- Bruce Springsteen
- Chris Isaak
- The Replacements
- The Who
- Pete Townshend
- Kate Bush
- XTC
- Dukes of Stratosphear
- The White Stripes
- Amália Rodrigues
- Nick Drake
- Beatles
- John Lennon
- Paul McCartney
- George Harrison
- U2
- Pearl Jam
- Green Day
- Paul Simon
- Simon & Garfunkle
- The Clash
- Violent Femmes
- Beck
- REM
- King Sunny Ade.
Favorite Books
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- A Confederacy of Dunces
- A Canticle for Liebowitz
- Crime and Punishment
- Metamorphosis
- I Know This Much Is True
- The Plague
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
- Fathers and Sons
- The Stranger.
