Christopher McCabe
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Gender | Male |
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Industry | Education |
Occupation | Janitor, fry cook, school bus driver, department store Santa Claus, office jobs, writer, and College English teacher. Retired. |
Location | Los Angeles, California, United States |
Introduction | Born in Boston, I grew up there, in Connecticut and in Southern California. I live in Los Angeles with my wife Janet. I started working at sixteen, from gardener to janitor, school bus driver to Santa Claus; I've also worked in a dry cleaners, a wood shop, a law firm and fundraising offices. I attended California State Universities at Long Beach and Northridge, earning B.A. and M.A. degrees in English, respectively. I have written for publications, and I began teaching in the late 1990s. From 2001-2016 I was on the English faculty at Pasadena City College. I stuttered when I was a kid and a young adult and I’ve become more fluent over the years. I hurt when disabled people and people on the margins become somebody’s joke. That’s never right. Some of my writing can be found at my blog, Custom Fit Freeway, at www.christophermccabe.com or English with McCabe http://englishwithmccabe.blogspot.com/?m=1 You can reach me by email: mccabecj@sbcglobal.net Or on Facebook. |
Interests | Taking a walk. Getting a good night’s sleep. |
Favorite Movies | Many by Francois Truffaut, Errol Morris. Many more films: Bringing Up Baby, It Happened One Night, Sullivan's Travels, Bicycle Thiefs, Dr. Strangelove, The Godfather series, Dog Day Afternoon, Young Frankenstein, Waiting for Guffman |
Favorite Music | For now let’s keep it short: Ella Fitzgerald, Bud Powell, Sonny Clark, Willie Dixon, John Lee Hooker, Bob Dylan, John Prine, Solomon Burke, The Clash (& Joe Strummer), The Pogues (& Shane MaGowan), and Dylan McCabe, of course. |
Favorite Books | Start with Bill Russell's "Go Up for Glory, ” Read meaningful short stories by Anton Chekhov, Ernest Hemingway, Flannery O’Connor, William Trevor, and Raymond Carver. Other writers I admire: poet Charles Simic and playwright Arthur Miller. Plus unsung heroes of memoir. |
If mud is dirt plus water, what is clay?
The “Random question” is not my question. It’s Google’s. Here’s mine: when you fall in love on first sight, do you love that person forever?