I simply detest boredom so I don't waste the time of day on things I don't find stimulating. However, I do find pleasure in the following pasttimes and issues: sailing, reading, golfing, daiquiries, girling, the sea, swimming, intimate dinner parties, general parties, keeping up my tan, current affairs (both foreign and domestic), visiting historical battle sites, backgammon and other board games, chowder, Inquiring Camera Girls (well, just the one really), civil rights, smoking the occasional cigar, polo, Fiddle/Faddle, touch football, flirting, poetry, family gatherings, rocking out in my rocking chair, getting to the moon, my kids. I do love my job too; the pay is good and I can walk to work :)
I'd like to meet:
I wouldn't mind catching up with my siblings that passed away, Kick and Joe, Jr., my son, Patrick and daughter Arabella, Winston Churchill, Lincoln, Joe Namath, amusing people, gossips, and good conversationalists. And also you.
Music:
The Andrews Sisters, Camelot Soundtrack, "My Fair Lady", some show tunes, jazz, Sinatra, rock and roll, Marilyn, Dino, easy listening, country/western, "Heart of my Heart", "Danny Boy", "Blue Skies", "Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey". You know how it is. I think "Hail to the Chief" has a nice ring to it.
Movies:
Short ones as I have a hard time sitting still for long. So if I find the picture unsatisfactory, you can bet on hearing me say, "All right, let's haul it out of here." But I do like Casablanca, The Lost Weekend, The Bells of Saint Mary's,
Henry V (Terrific!), Stalag 17, The Robe, Down With Love was semi-entertaining, and Westerns and Civil War movies.
Television:
The West Wing, Law & Order, CNN, A&E, The History Channel, and Nancy Grace. That's one fiery woman! Sometimes the Daily Show. I'll also take time in the morning to watch cartoons with John and Caroline, one of the best parts of the day.
Books:
"Pilgrim's Way", "The Raven", "Profiles in Courage" (Won a 1957 Pulitzer, mind you), "Why England Slept", "The Da Vinci Code" was interesting, "Marlborough and Melbourne", "The Red and the Black", "The Price of the Union", Marquis James' biography of Sam Houston, some Shakespeare, Non-Fiction, biographies, The New York Times, Newsweek, Life Magazine, all national newspapers. I do hold a record acknowledged by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's fastest speaker in public life, with a speed of 327 words in one minute in a speech given in December 1961. Say what?!
Heroes:
My dad, Lincoln, Churchill, Daniel Webster, Lord Byron. I'm pretty proud of my brother Bobby as well, there's no one I trust more.
