Woody (Tokin Librul/Rogue Scholar/ Helluvafella!)
- Age: 63
- Gender: Male
- Industry: Arts
- Occupation: Background Artiste/Stand-In & Consulting Semiotician/Semiologer
- Location: Alburquerque : New Mexico : United States
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About Me
The "Press" do not tell people what to think. That is a canard. The "Press" does, however, determine what people talk about. And it provides the language--the tropes and metaphors--in which we talk about the things toward which it has directed our attention.
You can punch a hole in an apple using a straw. How do you think that makes your milkshake feel?
sooo slurry...
Interests
- My Dogs {Budreau & Hanna-Stella (RIP: Mischief & Dixiebelle)}
- Surfing (wet and web)
- Post-Marxist Critical Theory
- Education
- Hoppy Beer
- The Taos Hum
- Semiotics
- Indolence
- anti-Fascist
- anti-consumerist & anti-Corporatist Politics
- Getting 86'd by A-List Blogs
- Good Whiskey
- Aging Sporty European Autos
- the World Association of Recovering Patriarchal Assholes(WARPA)
- & Lila...
Favorite Movies
- Johnny Got His Gun
- A Fish Named Wanda
- Do-des-kaden
- all things Python plus Time Bandits/Brazil etc
- The Magnificent Seven
- Into The West (w/E Barkin & G Byrne)
- M (Fritz Lang's version)
- Klute/Barbarella
- Lawrence of Arabia
- The Wild Bunch (anything by Peckinpah)
- I could go on...
Favorite Music
- Roots/Blues/Reggae
- Jazz
- 'World' (e.g.
- Fela
- Johnny Clegg
- Ali Khan
- Angelique Kidjo)
- Altie/Roots Country
- Bluegrass/Dawg
- Salsa
- and much of the 'classical' repertoire
- or as I call it 'the orchestral folk music of northwestern Asia'...I like variety.
Favorite Books
- Books by
- Paul Shepard
- Douglas Adams
- Ross MacDonald
- Michel Foucault
- Jno. Kozol
- Carl Hiassen
- Patrick O'Brien
- Jurgen Habermas
- Voltaire
- John D. McDonald
- Margaret Atwood
- P.G. Wodehouse
- Thoreau
- Kenneth Burke
- Dorothy Sayers
- John Dos Passos
- Bill Greider
- Gore Vidal
- Lewis Lapham
- the Canadian Naomis
- Gunther Grass
- Borges
- Eco
- and Richard S. Prather...
