M.R.F

• Gender: Male
• Astrological Sign: Gemini
• Occupation: Newman-esque Postal Worker
• Location: Springfield : Massachusetts : United States

Which do you prefer and why: whittling with soap or whistling with wood?

Why are we here?

Interests

• My wife
• my son
• dreaming
• reading
• drawing
• painting
• Red Sox Baseball
• baseball
• music
• home improvement
• bettering myself
• evolution
• Peace
• Justice and true Democracy.

Favorite Music

• Wilco
• The Wallflowers
• Bob Dylan
• Phish
• The Band
• Pearl Jam
• Uncle Tupelo
• Son Volt
• Jay Farrar
• Ben Folds (Five)
• Bright Eyes
• Youth Group
• DMB
• Widespread Panic
• The Meters
• Handsome Family
• Indigo Girls
• My Chemical Romance
• Fall Out Boy
• Beatles
• Rolling Stones

Favorite Books

• On the Road by Jack Kerouac
• anything by Edward Hoagland
• Annie Dillard
• H.P. Lovecraft
• Philip K. Dick
• Hunter S. Thompson
• or Michael Swanwick
• The Hyperion and Eymedion series by Dan Simmons (though I don't care for the parts where he as narrator inserts his narrow-minded political & social beliefs)
• About a Boy and High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
• The Dark Towers Series (OK
• OK
• mainly books 1-4
• I didn't care as much for the "post-car accident" books
• though I think its wonderful he finished his masterpiece
• and the last few paragraphs of book 7 kinda let the reader re-envision/rewrite the whole series in his/her head anyway--which is nice for us imaginative folks) by Stephen King
• Birthday Monsters by Sandra Boynton
• and on and on

M.R.F's Blogs

	Blog Name	Team Members
	Springfield, MA Union News
	Joe's Union Review	Charles Lezette PaulVa USLEAP AJ Tammy Jeff Ballinger Joe638NYC Bill the Lather Richard The Union Girl