Larry McCarley
My blogs
Blogs I follow
- Ars Technica - Front page content
- Astronomy.com - News
- Cleveland Indians News
- Fermentation: The Daily Wine Blog
- funcheapSF.com {beta}
- haighteration
- Macworld
- Mission Mission
- New Scientist - Science in Society
- Official Google Mac Blog
- San Francisco Bay Area and California Giants News — — SFGate
- Scientific American
- Serious Eats
- SFGate: Top News Stories
- SFGate: Wine
- The Kitchn
- The Official Site of Major League Baseball | MLB.com: Homepage
- The Official Site of Major League Baseball | MLB.com: Homepage
- The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
- Wine Spectator Online Daily Wine Picks RSS
- xkcd.com
Gender | Male |
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Industry | Publishing |
Occupation | Author |
Location | San Juan Capistrano, California, United States |
Introduction | St. Facetious Is My Co-Pilot |
Interests | Fly Fishing, Ocean Fishing, Camping, Baseball, Science, Parenting, Art, Design, Science Fiction, Fiction, Archeology, Cooking, Wine, Jazz, Orchestras, Reading, Film, Writing, History, Archeology, Psychology, The air-speed velocity of unladen swallows, astronomy, astrophysics, regular physics |
Favorite Movies | Paul Thomas Anderson, Alien(s), Blade Runner, Terry Gilliam, Orson Welles, A Scanner Darkly, Fight Club, Short Cuts, Michael Mann, Shakes the Clown, Ingmar Bergman (especially Cries and Whispers), David Cronenberg, Caddyshack, Die Hard, The Hunt for Red October, Primer, Jim Jarmusch, Helvetica, Animal Crackers, Duck Soup, Glengarry Glenross, Memento, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Urbanized, It's a Wonderful Life, White Christmas, Alex Cox, The Coen Brothers (especially Miller's Crossing), John Woo (with serious exceptions), Airplane I&II, Monty Python, Branagh's Henry V, Groundhog Day, Army of Darkness, Federico Fellini, Hal Hartley (some more than others but no exceptions), Woody Allen (same), The Conversation, Apocalypse Now, Godfather I&II, Sergio Leone (especially Once Upon a Time int the West), Stanley Kubrick, Goodfellas, Branded to Kill, The Iron Giant, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Oldboy, Fritz Lang, The Front Page (1931), The Angry Breed, Mel Brooks, The Outlaw Josie Wales, Howard Hawks, Bite the Bullet, Alfred Hitchcock, Peeping Tom, Billy Jack, David Lynch, The Avengers, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country, Back to the Future Trilogy, John Carpenter's The Thing, John Carpenter's catalog (with exceptions), Hell's Angels on Wheels, The Stuntman, Lawrence of Arabia, King Kong (1938), Duck Soup, Animal Crackers, Akira, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, It! The Terror from Beyond Space, Frankenstein's Bloody Terror, Queen of Blood, Roger Corman, Anything riffed by MST3K/Rifftrax/Cinematic Titanic |
Favorite Music | Mozart, Miles Davis, Erich Dolphy, Beethoven, Wayne Shorter, Tom Waits, Brian Eno, Sonic Youth, Johnny Cash, Buck Owens, Aimee Mann, Built to Spill, Elvis Costello, Frankie and Weird Al Yankovic (especially Clarinet Polka), The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Dean Martin, Django Reinhardt, Prokofiev, Drive-By Truckers, Electric Wizard, Elliot Smith, Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller, The Handsome Family, Keith Jarrett, Queens of the Stone Age, Lawrence Welk, Leonard Cohen, Brahms, Lou Reed, The Velvet Underground, MC5, Melvins, Michael Penn, The Mother Truckers, Neil Young, Pink Floyd, Queen, Propellerheads, Radiohead, The Residents, Steely Dan, Tony Bennett, X, Willie Nelson, Sammy Davis Jr, Tom Jones |
Favorite Books | Don DeLillo, F.Scott Fitzgerald, Philip K Dick, Grant Morrison, Neil Gaiman (exceptions), E.C. Comics, Mike Grell, Mad Magazine, J G Ballard, Harlan Ellison, Neil Stephenson, Alan Moore, Ray Bradbury, James Joyce, E E Cummings, Raymond Carver, Jean Baudrillard, Kim Stanley Robinson, Grant Morrison, Warren Ellis, Garth Ennis, Jean Toomer, Otto Friedrich, Haruki Murakami, Mike Nelson, Geoff Johns, Arthur C. Clarke, Douglas Adams |