George

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Gender Male
Location United States
Interests politics, preventing bullying, preventing child abuse, film, art, cats, cooking, travel, reading, dancing, cupcakes, multi-tasking, evolution, humor, satire, food, blues, jazz, rock, bluegrass, pie, comfort food, comedy, film making
Favorite Movies Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Schindler's List, To Kill a Mockingbird, The African Queen, The Maltese Falcon, Key Largo, Nightmare Alley, Dark Passage, The Grifters, Devil In A Blue Dress
Favorite Music Howlin Wolf: The Chess Box, Robert Johnson: The Complete Recordings, Charlie Patton: Complete Recordings 1929-34, Muddy Waters: Hoochie Coochie Man: Complete Chess Masters, Vol. 2: 1952-1958, Muddy Waters: The Chess Box, Buddy Guy & Junior Wells Play the Blues, Junior Wells: Come on in This House, Indigo Girls: Indigo Girls, Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited, Bob Dylan: Blonde on Blonde, The Basement Tapes by Bob Dylan and The Band, Coleman Hawkins: Night Hawk, Coleman Hawkins: Body & Soul, Tom Waits, Small Change, Tom Waits Heartattack and Vine, Georgia String Bands 1928-1930 (Story of the Blues), Pink Anderson: Carolina Blues Man, Bukka White: Fixin to Die
Favorite Books The Shelfbreak : critical interface on continental margins, God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It (Plus) by Jim Wallis, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid by Jimmy Carter Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama, Change We Can Believe In: Barack Obama's Plan to Renew America's Promise by Barack Obama, Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey: Desserts for the Serious Sweet Tooth by Jill O'Connor and Leigh Beisch, The Cambridge World History of Food by Kenneth F. Kiple and Kriemhild Coneè Ornelas, Near a Thousand Tables : A History of Food by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Patterns and Processes of Vertebrate Evolution by Robert Lynn Carroll, Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us Human by Richard E. Leakey and Roger Lewin, Armageddon in Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut, The Western Lands by William S. Burroughs, Cities of the Red Night: A Novel by William S. Burroughs, The Place of Dead Roads by William S. Burroughs, Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote, Julian by Gore Vidal, The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses, the Crossing, Cities of the Plain by Cormac Mccarthy, The Road by Cormac McCarthy, 1984 by George Orwell, Spook Country by William Gibson, The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, Walter Mosely: Easy Rawlins series and Fearless Jones series, Patrica Highsmith: Ripley series

In the dream where you show up to school naked, why do you never go swimming?

Because of cutbacks in education during the Bush administration, having a pool in my dream would be a waste of valuable funds that could be used to fill in for some of the programs cut due to Republican mismanagement.