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About Me

my one true passion is clog dancing. I have dabbled with it since I was young child. While other interests have come and people have drifted in and out of my life clogging has always remained the rock to anchor my soul. Someday I hope to break free of this mile a minute, rat race life and go out on the road of the big time clog dancing circuit. But unfortunately my work as a successful playwright, poet, journalist, performance and visual artist turned author keeps me shackled to the grindstone and unable to express and explore my love of free form clogging. Someday though, someday...

My Interests

Realigning society along two basic maxims: maximum fulfillment for each and every human being and living in harmony with the environment. Oh and refuting Descartes because he was a moron....

I'd like to meet:

Tito Jackson Tito Puente Tito of Tito's Vodka Josip Broz Tito and any present day practitioners of Titoism

Music:

Anything with a cabaret influence....

Movies:

El Toppo, Fando and Lis, the Victors, M, Duck Soup, the Third Man (got to love that zither score), Chinatown and anything by Svankmajer, the brothers quay, orson welles

Television:

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Books:

right now: Power of myth, class, uncle remus stories, still life with woodpecker, the sluts, the wishhouse and other stories, blindness

Heroes:

sig byrd. chalie chaplain. will eisner. 2 star symphony and prince paul.

My Blog

I'm not living up to my potential

A friend of mine told me I'm not driven enough. This generally happens about once every three to four months. At this point I've heard it so often I've developed a pat answer. I list everything I've a...
Posted by alex wukman on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 01:19:00 PST

Zen and the art of dating in montrose

Zen and the art of dating in Montrose Time heals all wounds First there is loneliness. Think of it as the void, the yawning, gaping abyss, the great lack. It is the un-presence, the...
Posted by alex wukman on Sun, 30 Jul 2006 11:23:00 PST

the apple and the tree

It's the day after Thanksgiving at the new Harris County Sheriff's Office and Detention Facilitythe one at 1200 Baker Streetit's one of those days when almost every inmate gets at least one visitor....
Posted by alex wukman on Thu, 30 Mar 2006 11:58:00 PST

love and tear gas

Are you trained for this, says the guy sitting next to me. His name is Mike; hes a 17-year-old high-school kid, about six-foot, 250which means hes about two inches taller than me and twice as heavy. H...
Posted by alex wukman on Thu, 30 Mar 2006 11:56:00 PST

the nature of humanity

I just read something interesting last night it was a quote by a Dr. Johnson, he said "he who chooses to become a beast does so to forget the pain of being a man." It gave me pause for thought, as I r...
Posted by alex wukman on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST