btchakir

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About me

Gender Male
Industry Arts
Occupation Retired
Location Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States
Introduction 65 this year, First Year Baby Boomer, father and grandfather! No longer teaching at Hagerstown Community College (a relief!)... I am currently Doing a Friday Morning radio program on WSHC FM (89.7). I've done a lot of things in my life -- Network Manager, Teacher, Lighting Designer, Computer Geek, Broadway Producer, Justice of the Peace, Commercial Photographer, Non-Profit Administrator, Publisher, playwright, Usability Tester, Tour Guide in a Candle Factory, Insurance Agent. I have a wife (Elly), two daughters (Cassandra and Penny), a son (Will, who we call Buddy) and four grandsons. In my spare time I play around in community theatres, designing lights and sets or sometimes directing.
Interests Theatre, Photography, Art, Poetry, American Mechanical Check Protectors, History, Dogs, Cinema, Politics, 20th Century Cultural History
Favorite Movies La Vie En Rose, M, The Crowd, Continental Divide, The Triplets of Belleville, anything by Kubrick, Bringing Up Baby, Closer, Metropolis, The General, Citizen Kane, The Cabinet of Caligari
Favorite Music Frank Zappa, Edith Piaf, Barbara Cook, David Byrne, Prokofiev, Willie Nelson, Jaques Brel, Sondheim, Gershwin, Harry Chapin, Ed Roberts' scores for our 2 children's operas.
Favorite Books Against The Day, How Would A Patriot Act?, Mason & Dixon, Finnegans Wake, V., JR, The Collected Works of William Shakespeare, The Crying of Lot 49, The Plays of Bertold Brecht, The Autobiography of Mark Twain.

You moved the pot before the coffee stopped brewing. Do you smell the mountains or the burro?

I smell the coffee all over the counter and the floor.