Location	Northeastern, United States
Introduction	Welcome to my little corner of the blogosphere. Theatre, books, movies, music, civil rights - I'm a fan of them all. I have lots of opinions and love to share them. Please feel free to comment.
Favorite movies	Casablanca, Annie Hall, The Graduate, The Godfather, Beyond the Sea, The Wizard of Oz, The Usual Suspects, The Bicycle Thief, Cast a Giant Shadow, Hairspray, Oklahoma, Exodus
Favorite music	Broadway show tunes, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel, the Beatles, U2, just about anything from the Sixties
Favorite books	The Secret Garden, If You Give a Moose a Muffin, I Wish That I Had Duck Feet, The Best and the Brightest, A Small Island, Crossing California, The Namesake, The Plot Against America, Portnoy's Complaint, American Pastoral, The Bonfire of the Vanities, A Tale of Love and Darkness, Exodus, The Wall, Harry Potter, Jonathan Kellerman's Alex Delaware series, any good mystery novel

Which do you prefer and why: whittling with soap or whistling with wood?

Whittling with soap. I've never been very good at whistling.