Alan
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Founder and Director, Open Road Learning Community for Teens |
| Location | Portland, OR, United States |
| Introduction | Why "Red Fred in the Shed?" I don't know. These are the kinds of things that pop into my head late at night when I am not wanting to spend too much time coming up with a name for my blog. "Red Fred" is a compass reference that also sounds dirty. Or just gross. Either way, it's right up my alley. I think I'll keep it. |
| Interests | Hiking and backpacking, books, music, food, drink, ideas, teaching and learning, crossword puzzles, and Boston sports. |
| Favorite movies | GoodFellas, The Godfather, Dr. Strangelove, The Last Waltz, Lone Star, Harold and Maude, Rushmore, The Lives of Others, Manhattan, Bullets Over Broadway, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Blue in the Face, Manhattan, Blazing Saddles, Airplane!, Dazed and Confused, The Bugs Bunny/Roadrunner Movie, the list goes on... |
| Favorite music | Way too many to name. The Grateful Dead, Zappa, Phish, Ornette Coleman, Flatt and Scruggs, Hank Williams, Bob Dylan, The Band, Joni Mitchell, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Iron Maiden, Prince, Neutral Milk Hotel, Flaming Lips, Neil Young, and everything in between. |
| Favorite books | Too many to name. Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire, E.L. Doctorow's The Book of Daniel, John Holts Freedom ans Beyond, Peter Gray's Free to Learn, Grace Llewellyn's Teenage Liberation Handbook, James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Sometimes a Great Notion, on and on and on..... |