Tom Degan
- Age: 51
- Gender: Male
- Astrological Sign: Leo
- Zodiac Year: Dog
- Industry: Non-Profit
- Occupation: Video artist, writer
- Location: Goshen : New York : United States
About Me
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: TOM DEGAN is a fifty-one year old video artist who in 2006 became so thoroughly disgusted at the state of America's national political dialogue, he decided to take time off to become a freaking civics teacher. He was born in Goshen, NY in 1958 and, after living all over the United States and Canada, moved back there in 1992. He is a high school dropout who in 1977 received an equivalency diploma (HEY, IT'S LEGAL!) He attended SUNY in Middletown, NY and in 1986 studied journalism at the New School in New York City. He is the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and has worked as a truck driver, a radio DJ, and a metal worker... OK, he didn't ACTUALLY receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, but he DID get some kind of ribbon of sorts when he was in the Cub Scouts. He is the inventor of Cheez Whiz and lives off the royalties on the sales of that fine product. He loves children and little baby duckies. FULL DISCLOSURE: He didn't really invent Cheez Whiz. His address is: 2590 Rte 17M (PO BOX 611) Goshen, NY 10924 (845) 294-5714
If you were a pirate, how would you avoid laughing when saying 'poop deck'?
Such a profound question. I'm sorry but it's beyond my scope.
Interests
- World Peace
- Spirituality
- American History
- Politics
- Affairs of State
- Music
- The Environment
- Comedians
- Paris Hilton (just kidding)
Favorite Movies
- Going My Way
- Anything with Buster Keaton
- Anything with Charlie Chaplin
- Citizen Kane
- Anything with Laurel and Hardy
- A Hard Days Night
- Help
- Any Documentary by Robert Greenwald
- Anything with the Ritz Brothers
- Entertaining Angels
- A Night At The Opera
- The Reluctant Dragon
- Anything with Wheeler and Woolsey
- Monty Python And The Holy Grail
- What About Bob?
- The Big Broadcast of 1938
- The Sound of Music (Seriously!)
- Lenny Bruce: Swear To Tell The Truth
- My Fair Lady
Favorite Music
- The Beatles
- Tchaikovsky
- Mozart
- Schubert
- Bix Beiderbecke
- Frank Sinatra
- Spike Jones
- Louis Armstrong
- Bob Dylan
- John Lennon
- Bing Crosby
- Billie Holiday
- The Who
- Neil Young
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Thieves and Villains
- Noel Coward
- Charlie Parker
- The Rolling Stones
- My Fair Lady original cast LP
- George Harrison
- Leorard Cohen
- Nat King Cole
- Pink Floyd
Favorite Books
- Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton
- Anything by Molly Ivins
- Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 by Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
- The New Testament
- The Autobiography of Malcom X
- Lindberg by A. Scott Berg
- A Man Without A Country by Kurt Vonnegut
- How To Talk Dirty And Influence People by Lenny Bruce
- Anything by Al Franken
- By Little and By Little: The Selected Writings of Dorothy Day
- Armed Mad House by Greg Palast
- Exceptions To The Rulers by Amy Goodman
- The Air America Play Book
- Sleepwalking Though History by Haynes Johnson
- Amoral America by Robert W. Fearn
- The 1957 New Jersey Industrial Directory
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