Mike Nettleton
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Communications or Media |
| Occupation | Radio Personality |
| Location | Vancouver, Washington |
| Introduction | Retired after 42 years in radio broadcasting. I'm looking forward to having more time to write both with my wife Carolyn Rose and by myself. My son, now approaching 40 is also my computer-geek for hire. He works for Intel. We have two dogs (there's some debate as to whether they're actuall dogs--Bubba a Schnauzer Yorkie mix and Max a purebred Maltese who pulls off being extremely smart and incredibly dumb sumultaneously. |
| Interests | Writing, reading, golf, tennis, poker, bridge, backgammon, pocket billiard, theater. |
| Favorite Movies | It changes. Most recently I was knocked out by "The King's Speech." Have also liked all three of the Swedish movies made from the Stieg Larson books. One thing I like about foreign films (and specifically these) is they don't feel compelled to use an entire cast filled with beautiful people, like Hollywood sometimes does. The Coen Brother's take on "True Grit" also worked very well. I think Jeff Bridges is a highly underrated actor. Perpetual favorites I can watch again and again. Casablanca, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Blues Brothers. |
| Favorite Music | I'm all over the place with this one. My workout I-pod (so called because the gym is mostly where I use it)has rock, blues, jazz, country, oldies, folk and even showtunes. There's nothing like being almost out of gas after 45 minutes on the eliptical and having Rita Moreno and the Shark girls launch into America from West Side Story. _ |
| Favorite Books | We've been reading the Reacher novels by Lee Child and like them a lot. Enduring classics Catch 22 by Joseph Heller, Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut and One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey. Most recently I spent a summer reading Neil Stephenson's Baroque Cycle and was throughly entertained. |
Why does it always seem like the middle class seems to take in in the shorts? Universal Health Care makes all kinds of sense for everyone concerned except for the fat cats who are profitting by selling us insurance (and often denying us coverage when we're sick) and the stock manipultors who get rich by playing the NYSE's version of Pai Gow by speculating in health care stocks.