mikisdad
My blogs
Blogs I follow
- Art Blog for The Inspiration Place
- Brooke Johnston Design
- From Machu Picchu to Darkest Africa at RGSSA
- Life with Aspergers
- thoughts
- Zac Retz Art
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Consulting |
| Occupation | Library Consultant / Teacher / Database Designer / Writer / Volunteeer |
| Location | Toowoomba South, Qld, Australia |
| Introduction | Well advanced in an unfortunate and probably squandered life. Too many regrets and not enough hope. Enjoy and admire articulate, intelligent and compassionate people. Abhor the horrors that have been and continue to be perpetrated by fanatics of all persuasions. Ever frustrated at the contrast between humanity's technical progress on the one hand and its abject failure to progress in the affective and rational domains, on the other. |
| Interests | Ethics, Understanding blind faith versus rational perspective;Social policy particularly as it relates to the disadvantaged or mentally ill; Animal welfare; World peace; Combating political madness, Prevention of bullying; Folk Music, Information, Assisting the peoles of the "Developing World" |
| Favorite Movies | On Golden Pond, Jamned, Bullet, Staircase, The Turn of the screw, The China syndrome, Watership Down, Animal Farm, The Chant of Billy Blacksmith |
| Favorite Music | Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen Eva Cassidy, Eliza Gilkyson, Tom Waits, Dire Straits, Brindl, Perry Keyes, Derroll Adams, Eddi Reader, Nanci Griffith, Shawn Mullins, Bob Geldoff, Joan Baez, Leon Redbone, Lucinda Williams, John Prine, Iris Dement; Katie Melua, Chuck Berry, Diana Krall, Rosie Smith, Rolling Stones, Anni di Franco, Martha Wainwright, Pat Benatar, Melissa Etheridge, Missy Higgins, The Pretenders, The Eurythmics, Rory Gallagher, Kevin Borich, Candy Dulfer, The Wallflowers, John Hartford, Ethelred (Australia), Dire Strais, Roxette, Rita Coolidge, and etc... |
| Favorite Books | The Old Man and the Sea, Knulp, The Little Prince, The Children's Story, The Growth of the Soil, Grimble, Where the Wild Things Are, Selina, the Mouse, and the Giant Cat, UHU, Death in the afternoon, All Hemingway's short stories, The Red Pony, I Robot and all Asimov Sf & non-fiction, Arthur C Clarke stories, Much biography, Let the balloon go, Voltaire, Hemingway, Naomi Wolfe, Russll Hoban, Henry & Louisa Lawson, Banjo Paterson, Poetry by Ted Hughes, Leonard Cohen & many many others. |
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