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Hometown

Lakeland, Florida

Places I've been

Lakeland High School, 1964, University of South Florida, 1968. Occupation(s) Musician, teacher, sales, marketing, reporter, writer, placebo tester Places: Clearwater and Tampa, Florida, Puerto Vallarta, London and Norwich, England, Nashville, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, San Francisco, Washington DC, Elmira, NY, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, Zurich, Paris, Vienna, Nassau, Cozumel, Cancun, Key West, Colorado Springs, Newfoundland, Toronto, Tucson, Las Vegas, Boston, Philadelphia, Austin, San Antonio

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I’m a sixty-two-year-old Boomer who so far has survived birth, being poor, parental divorce, the Southern Baptist Church, public education, Sputnik, Elvis, the Twist, the 60’s, Cuba, JFK, LBJ, Oswald, the Warren Commission, Cassius Clay, LSD, pot, bra burning, draft card burning, Fortran, New Math, hippies, yippies, Haight Ashbury, The Beatles, Bubble Gum Rock, Playboy, M.L.King, school busing, desegregation, "I have a dream," the Berlin Wall, Woodstock, Altamonte, Apollo 11, the 70’s, Nixon, Kent State, Vietnam, Watergate, Swine flu, SNL, Don Juan and Carlos, disco, Muzak, Techo-Rock, Disney World, the Love Boat, the Love Canal, the Ruskies, Mao, Iran, marriage, divorce, parenthood, Penthouse, John Lennon, Jim Jones, MTV, Michael Jackson, Hustler, Reagan, Iran-Contra, the 90’s, Clinton, Jessica Hahn, two Bushes, two wars, ozone depletion, CMT, the Exxon Valdez, voodoo economics, Y2K, corporate America, leveraged buyouts, Six Sigma, Bill Gates, Donald Trump, NAFTA, Enron, Big Oil, Bin Laden, 9-11, Iraq, WMD, AIDS, genocide, Columbine, smooth jazz, smart bombs, reality TV, Jim and Tammy Faye, the Internet, AOL, 9600 baud, iPods, Oprah, rogaine, Rodney King, American Idol, congenital diseases, clinical depression, stem cells, Viagra, dimpled chads, Katrina, global warming, Sara Palin, credit default swaps, iPods, iPhones, Wall Street meltdowns, shoe bombers, Amber alerts, Arab Springs, my shrinking 401(k), the Tea party, open borders, closed minds and dead friends.

 

I enjoy listening to and playing music, reading, writing prose and poetry, philosophy, religion, thinking and wondering, interesting conversation, shopping for antiques, yard sales, fishing, swimming, golf, photography, traveling, bike riding, walking, movies and documentaries.

 

An additional observation. We’re all we have. We are all here on the Earth together, in a bad place in a bad way at a bad time, and nobody is going to ride in at the last minute and fix it for us. If we don’t fix ourselves and how we live, the next dominant life form will be along shortly to replace us. Time is running out. We don’t have to worry about “saving the Earth.” The Earth will be quite fine, thank you. Our concern should be helping the Earth maintain that narrow margin of conditions which allow us to live in harmony with all the other life forms here and if possible, perform the function intended for us. The Earth is our mother, not our dump.    

Favorite Movies

The Godfather I and II, Ten Commandments, Tombstone, Office Space, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Groundhog Day, Gladiator, All the Star Wars films, Pulp Fiction, ET, Gone With the Wind, Cuckoo's Nest, 13th Warrior, Sound of Music, The Postman, Day the Earth Stood Still, Sling Blade

Favorite TV Shows

Star Trek, Outer Limits, Seinfeld, MASH, I Love Lucy, Captain Kangaroo, Cheers, Simpsons, Nova, Mister Wizard, Twilight Zone, Newhart, House, Austin City Limits, Monk, Boston Legal

Activities

Antiques, yard sales, drums, poetry, philosophy, wondering, lucid dreaming, photography, bike riding, writing, reading. Favorite hobby - attempted juxtaposition of dissimilar reality constructs into a neurologically unstable matrix.

Favorite Charities

Local artists and local school music programs.

Favorite Music

Jazz, Rock, World music, Percussion, Blues, Reggae, Symphonic Music, Doo Wop. Specifically: Clapton, Jeff Beck, Muddy Waters, Hendrix, Beatles, Stones, The Who, Johnny Winter, Pink Floyd, Dave Brubeck, Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Olatunji, Leon Russell, Leslie West, Coltrane, Monk, Dylan, Zappa, Miles Davis, Dave Weckl, Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Chicago, John Prine, Patsy Cline, Jerry Jeff Walker, Willie Nelson, Karen Carpenter, Albert King, BB King, Joe Satriani, SRV, Alison Krause, Martina McBride, Bonnie Raitt, James Brown, Jimmy Buffett, Howling Wolf, George Strait, George Clinton, Billie Holiday, Junior Wells, Derek Trucks, Ladysmith Black Mombazo, Asleep at the Wheel, Eagles, Police, Dwight Yoakham, Rammstein

Favorite Books

Beelzebub's Tales To His Grandson - George Gurdjieff, The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner, The Eagle's Gift - Carlos Castaneda, Prometheus Rising - Robert Anton Wilson, Brain Droppings - George Carlin, Ishmael - Daniel Quinn, Tao Te Ching, e.e.cummings - Collected Poems, The Evolution of Consciousness - Robert Ornstein

Favorite Quotes

"We're in an age now when people are slumbering. They think they're awake, yet they're really sleeping. This is a dangerous age, the most dangerous in human history. People need to wake up. They can't hear God's voice if they're asleep." - Vernon Cooper, Lumbee (Croatoan) elder

Favorite People

Robert Anton Wilson, George Gurdjieff, Carl Sagan, Joseph Campbell, Vinnie Colaiuta, Bob Dylan, Hamilton Silvert, Dave Barry, Carlos Castaneda, Willie Nelson, Eric Clapton, Frank Zappa, Bertrand Russell, Marge Piercy, Buckminster Fuller, Morgan Freeman, Al Gore, Bill Moyers, Tiger Woods, Barack Obama, Joe Morello, Stephen Hawking, Tony Dungy, Daniel Quinn

Favorite Places

Anywhere in the Caribbean Basin, Smokey Mountains, The Rockies, Tucson, Seattle, England, Puerto Vallarta, downtown Chicago, Nassau, Zurich, Sedona, Key West, Paris

Favorite Animals

My cats - BeeBee and The Lump, owls, eagles, pelicans, the birds that are everywhere in Texas, dolphins, manatees, alligators, turtles, any species of fish and any type of whale

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