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About Me

Male, American, Democrat, atheist, bipedal, literate, calico, hirsute, caucasian, employed, citizen, tolerant, mortal, unusual, capable, resourceful, finite. Good to know in a crisis.

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My Interests

Music, history, travel, photography, automobiles old and new and especially MX-5's, geocaching, blue highways . . .

I'd like to meet:

Ernest Hemingway, Kurt Vonnegut, Sarah Vowell, Declan McManus, Ariana Huffington, Abraham Lincoln, John Lee Hooker, Winston Churchill, John Kennedy, Soichiro Honda, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Nelson Mandela, Carson McCullers,Don Van Vleit.

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Music:

SRV, Howlin Wolf, Trainreck, Rory Block, Elvis Costello, REM, Pylon, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, R.L. Burnside, Junior Kimbrough, T-Model Ford, The Fall, Jethro Tull, Captain Beefheart, Kate Bush, The Bad Plus, Camper Van Beethoven, Morphine, ZZ Top, Cake, Oh OK, Chickasaw Mudd Puppies, Talking Heads, A Perfect Circle, Southern Culture on the Skids, The Pixies, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Dizzie Gillespie

Movies:

O Brother Where Art Thou, Young Frankenstein, Cars, Stop Making Sense, The Manchurian Candidate, Blood Simple, Elmer Gantry, Citizen Kane, Monster, Fight Club, Sling Blade, Little Miss Sunshine

Television:

Jon Stewart and Steve Colbert, Sopranos. The Office.

Books:

American Prometheus, Wheels for the World, The End of Faith, all Vonnegut, all Steinbeck, Catch-22, A Confederacy of Dunces, Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, God is Not Great, All the King's Men, many, many biographies.

Heroes:

My Uncle Tom. He taught me that it is more profitable and interesting to discuss ideas than to trade gossip, that it is possible to disagree with respect, and that a good question is a gift.

My Blog

Japanese cars . . . in Japan

I was surfing various car sites and ran across a place where you could buy Japanese cars. I don't mean just cars made in Japan, but the actual right hand drive things they sell in Japan to Japanese. I...
Posted by Cleanhead on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 02:24:00 PST

Schadenfreude

I hear that a few (I hope uncharacteristic) denizens of the Christian blogosphere are responding to the plight of the mining company towns in Utah being victimized by post-disaster layoffs by poi...
Posted by Cleanhead on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 05:32:00 PST

Elvis French Toast

I may be missing some of the details here, but if I have misstated anything perhaps some gourmet will correct me. Apparently, Elvis was fond of a special French toast recipe that went something like t...
Posted by Cleanhead on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 05:41:00 PST

Nancy Grace

Where in the heck did this Nancy Grace person come from? I'll readily admit to a substantial unfamiliarity with the precise content of her show, because her voice is annoying, so grating, so...
Posted by Cleanhead on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 07:31:00 PST

Fearful freethinker

I had been wanting to read The God Delusion, so I stopped by Barnes and Noble yesterday to pick up a copy. When I got to the cash register, the guy behind the counter (a twenty-something) mumbled some...
Posted by Cleanhead on Sun, 05 Aug 2007 07:47:00 PST

Drove through the Chic Chocs

Never heard of the Chic Chocs? They're here: I drove through on Quebec 299 in 1983, and have thought that in all my travels since then I've never seen a more beautiful place. I approach...
Posted by Cleanhead on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 06:14:00 PST

Filboid Studge by Saki

For your enjoyment, a short story by Saki (1870-1916). Yum! Filboid Studge"I want to marry your daughter," said Mark Spayley with faltering eagerness. "I am only an artist with an income of two h...
Posted by Cleanhead on Sat, 02 Jun 2007 09:31:00 PST

Calvinist yardwork

I was out in the yard pulling weeds this afternoon, and it occurred to me how like the Calvinist vision of god I acted. Those plants whose presence displeased me, I pulled up by the root. There w...
Posted by Cleanhead on Thu, 10 May 2007 03:21:00 PST

Relative wealth

I have an old high school buddy who got rich. He flew over to my town the other day to visit and take me up in his plane. He used the larger of his two airplanes; the other one only has one engine. Wh...
Posted by Cleanhead on Tue, 01 May 2007 06:00:00 PST

rebellion mix

A while back I was in a . . . mood, shall we say. Pissed off at the government, the war, the theocracy, all the usual crap. I came up with this idea to make a music mix that would work out my neg...
Posted by Cleanhead on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 06:35:00 PST