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-Former: student, library collections assistant, bookseller, house painter, union propagandist, copyeditor, short-order cook, English teacher, law clerk and math tutor; currently teaching Special Education -25 years old -BA, Liberal Arts; concentrated in History of Science -Coming at you live from Brooklyn -Habitually straight and male -Shameless snob -I play guitar badly -and chess worse -Likes: snooty artsy movies, baths, graphic novels, cold weather, people who can't seem to hack it -Dislikes: crushing tedium of modern existence, people who talk during the movie

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My favorite music:

King Sunny Ade

comments:  And other afrobeat/juju/highlife, like Fela Kuti and Thomas Mapfumo. When I dance alone in my house, this is what I dance to.

Philip Glass

comments:  Sentimental attachment; drives most other people insane, but something about Glass suggests an orderly universe, which I sometimes find comforting

Johnny Cash

comments:  My personal hero. A protest musician, a guilty conscience, an empathizer with pretty much everyone: picks up where Whitman and John Ford left off. You've got to love Christians who cover Nick Cave.

The Who

comments:  Another sentimental attachment. Suggests a disorderly universe, which I also find comforting sometimes.

Bob Dylan

comments:  I like him most when he's in his selfish moods. And when I'm in mine.

My favorite movies:

Singin' In the Rain

comments:  A hallucination about a movie within a movie. Take for cheerfulness as needed.

Rules of the Game

comments:  "Everyone has their reasons."

The Royal Tenenbaums

comments:  I never get tired of it, either.

The West Wing

comments:  And Alias. They both use their medium well.

Casablanca

comments:  Because deep down I'm a sap. Also in this category: Notting Hill, Four Weddings and a Funeral.

My favorite authors:

Thomas Pynchon

comments:  Contains multitudes. "You will not touch the master, but you may tickle his creatures."

Neal Stephenson

comments:  Baroque indeed. Porno for historiographers.

Alexander Pope

comments:  My favorite critic.

John Ashbery

comments:  A kind of generalized autobiography. Comfort poetry, to me, sort of like eating quiche.

Karl Popper

comments:  It takes a pretty singular intelligence to debunk as much of western philosophy as this guy did. Fascinating life, as well.

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