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Turn around, ghost

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About Me

Lee grew up on a sharecropper’s farm in Lithonia, Georgia. He attended school there and graduated in 1953.Lee enjoys a varied career as a chamber singer, oratorio soloist, opera singer, and recitalist.One of Lee's jobs is to keep the office mousetraps constantly replenished with cheese: he has stacks of individual cubes in the fridge.

My Interests

Lee's interests are as diversified as his investment portfolio and he is an active philanthropist in education, the arts, and medicine, among other areas. Lee's interests are pattern analysis and non-parametric learning in high dimensions. Two diseases of particular interest are Lung Surfactant System and Respiratory Distress Syndrome.

I'd like to meet:

Lee would like to meet with each division chair to discuss their budgets.

Music:

Gary Wilson, Hawnay Troof, Fiery Furnaces, Lee Hazlewood, White Stripes, Of Montreal, Joan Armatrading, Dan Hicks, Gary Numan, David Bowie, NOT MARTIKA, Zager and Evans, Kate Bush, Joe Jackson, Neil Diamond/Sedaka/Young, Kid Creole and the Coconuts, Foetus, Human Sexual Response, Modern English, Bill Withers, Antony and the Johnsons, Rilo Kiley, Scissor Sisters, The Zutons

Movies:

Documentaries about old ladies.

Television:

Classic parades and dog shows.

Books:

Madmen of History

Heroes:

Jerry Stiller

My Blog

"Obama Invokes Spirit of Lincoln"

I don't know about you, but when I hear a headline like that, it conjures up this image in my mind: I summon thee, o Abe, to the present!  ...
Posted by What will we do if we can't love each other? on Sun, 11 Feb 2007 01:12:00 PST

Running up Capitol Hill

Here's my rundown of those politicians who are running (or exploring the possibility of a run) for President in 2008, and why none of them will win. 1. Hillary Clinton: Really, do we need to say ...
Posted by What will we do if we can't love each other? on Sun, 11 Feb 2007 12:30:00 PST

Big News from the Shill

DeepdiscountDVD.com and DeepdiscountCD.com have combined their powers to form one awesome entertainment megarobot!  They're usually cheaper than Amazon and ship for free no matter how much you sp...
Posted by What will we do if we can't love each other? on Sun, 11 Feb 2007 11:21:00 PST

Dream a little dream of Lee

I am once again re-posting something without permission.  However, I am allowed to as this one involves me.  Keep in mind, this didn't happen, I think. We're gathered for an assembly in Linu...
Posted by What will we do if we can't love each other? on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 02:09:00 PST

Wiki What? Wiki Who?

The world of Wikia (and Wikipedia, Wikimedia, Wikietcetc) is fascinating, perplexing, and a bit overwhelming to me.  Sometimes I'm glad that I don't have a computer at home with working internet,...
Posted by What will we do if we can't love each other? on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 10:14:00 PST

Wank it for a good cause

Britian's Channel 4, known for controversy, has delayed a series of programs about masturbation.  One is a documentary about a charity jack-a-thon.  Another is about a female masturbation co...
Posted by What will we do if we can't love each other? on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 10:30:00 PST

"What the fuck?!" I mutter, splattering urine.

We have in our office, for some reason, a life-sized cardboard cut-out of a horrifying beast of a man named Batista, who is a WWE wrestler.  He has frightened me more than once.  The last ti...
Posted by What will we do if we can't love each other? on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 03:45:00 PST

"He really is your brother . . ."

Yes, he is.  Yes indeed.  And I couldn't be prouder.
Posted by What will we do if we can't love each other? on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 03:31:00 PST

Lost in translation

If you have eight and a half minutes, and are interested in the workings of an autistic mind, watch this video from YouTube.  I think it's fascinating. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnylM1hI2jc ...
Posted by What will we do if we can't love each other? on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 03:05:00 PST

Tragedy

Recently my friend Chris was in a car accident, and the love of his life, a Toyota Celica, was damaged.  Here is my favorite part of his recent, mournful posting: I slammed the brakes - locked t...
Posted by What will we do if we can't love each other? on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 12:54:00 PST