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Morrisman

Morrisman's Musings...

About Me

I'm an educator and artist, musician and traveler, teacher and student...Child of the 60's and 70's, I live for acoustic music, travel, being outdoors, creating stuff on the Mac (video editing, Photoshop/Illustrator pieces, music), meeting the local wildlife wherever I travel, the rennie family, camping, and welcoming my friends with open arms.

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My Interests

Music (playing and listening), photography, digital video editing, graphic design (Adobe Creative Suite rocks!), and all the creative stuff is proudly done on a Mac. I like to travel as much as possible, play mandolin, harp, squeezebox, flutes of different kinds, sax. Performing at ren faires, pirate festivals, weddings, etc.

I'd like to meet:

New like-minded friends! Good people, kind friends, folkies, musicians, rennies, people who like music and dance, folks with no other agenda than wanting to be friends.

Music:

Morris tunes (hence the name), English and Irish music, renaissance, medieval, classical, Blues/R'nB, old rock, cajun, ethereal, pagan, and folk.Here's my favourite Morris side in the world, The Witchmen, who include two family members-- one dancer, one drummer..... width="425" height="350" ..

Movies:

Children of a Lesser God, Pirates of the Caribbean, Lord of the Rings, Shrek, Rent, Fantasia, bunches of children's movies that I won't admit to liking but I do, and more.

Television:

Nope. Once every few months I might see an episode of "Monk" or "CSI" if it happens to be on where I am. I only turn my TV on so that I can use the DVD or VCR, and that's as seldom as watching a show.

Books:

Virtually anything by Charles de Lint. If you think you would like stories of the Fae or the Supernatural, completely overlapped with life in a large, seemingly impersonal city, and then finding out that the things you thought that you couldn't see have an unending interest in your life, then Charles de Lint is the author to try. Let me know what you think after you try one. "Tapping the Dream Tree" is a good short-story book, "Memory and Dream" is a good novel to start with. What is especially good about his writing is his recurring cast of characters and the imaginary, dirty, but magical city of Newford, all of which play a part in most of his better books. After you've read a couple, you might begin to think that you know your way around Newford as well as his characters do.

Heroes:

My Grandparents and Parents, rest their souls.

My Blog

Getting into my jeans...

For the last 20+ years I've had a box of blue jeans that I wore right about the end of high school and when I began college (the first time). I kept them because they would be my gauge for when I los...
Posted by Morrisman on Sun, 31 Aug 2008 07:31:00 PST

They *do* love me!

So today Pinellas County Schools gave me a new laptop for my work... a brand new shiny MacBook! The look on my roomie's face was priceless when he walks in and sees the screen of my iMac in the studi...
Posted by Morrisman on Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:00:00 PST

I have one of the coolest jobs on the planet!

Because I've been a Special Ed department head and then an Educational Technology Specialist, not only have I not had my own classroom for the last 4-5 years, but that means I usually get to go on mos...
Posted by Morrisman on Sat, 31 May 2008 06:24:00 PST

Busy day/evening...

Started off with a house-warming party in Wesley Chapel for a good friend whose abusive ex-husband finally moved out... she's in the same house, but it's *hers* now! What I didn't know was that almos...
Posted by Morrisman on Sun, 18 May 2008 12:45:00 PST

New (used) car...

Low miles, extremely clean, drives like a charm-- very good price, too, since I was still there until closing on the last day of the month and the guys at Crown Eurocars really wanted to make their nu...
Posted by Morrisman on Thu, 01 May 2008 02:27:00 PST

***Great Music Alert!***

At Bacco's, 23 N. Lemon Ave., Sarasota, Friday from 7:00 p.m. until 11:00.Tanya Radtke, great singer/songwriter, with her band backing her up. It's a nice place, great wine and food, courteous staff,...
Posted by Morrisman on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:57:00 PST

Out for the night... More Happy Jen!

It's 70-something outside, clear and beautiful in downtown St. Pete, I have a huge slice of pizza in front of me, just left the very entertaining opening of a new art gallery, and I'm going to meet a ...
Posted by Morrisman on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 10:19:00 PST

Who I listen to...

These two ladies each have their own bands in the Sarasota area, and just to make things better they might occasionally show up at a mic during each other's shows...Tanya Radtkehttp://www.myspace.com/...
Posted by Morrisman on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 09:22:00 PST

Who can resist Lust?

Because my friend did it, I, the Lemming, took the "Lust Sign" test too......
Posted by Morrisman on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 08:35:00 PST

Wanna play?

Leave your name in my blog comments. Once you do that, this is what I will do:1. I'll respond below your comment with something random about you.2. I'll tell you which song or movie you remind me of.3...
Posted by Morrisman on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 12:17:00 PST