Billy_the_Poet
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Educating myself, sometimes others |
| Location | Memphis, City state, United States |
| Introduction | Born the son of a poor black sharecropper, became white in spite of his dusky soul |
| Interests | chess, literature, music, people (not necessarily in that order, though not necessarily not, either) |
| Favorite music | Etta James, Dizz, Miles, Big Bill Broonzy, Sam Cooke, Bela Fleck et al., Frank Sinatra, Sarah Vaughan, Carmen MacRae |
| Favorite books | Generally the last one read, but Gravity's Rainbow, Italo Calvino, Fydor Dostoevsky, Moby Dick, James Lee Burke, and Elmore Leonard seem to stick |