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About Me

Begotten in the galley and born under a gun. Every hair a rope yarn, every tooth a marline spike; every finger a fish hook and in me blood right good Stockholm tar. ..

My Interests

...The unharming sharks, they glided by as if with padlocks on their mouths; the savage sea-hawks sailed with sheathed beaks. On the second day, a sail drew near, nearer, and picked me up at last. It was the devious-cruising Rachel, that in her retracing search after her missing children, only found another orphan.

I'd like to meet:

I'll tell ye who I don't want to meet!

Music:

Any ditty, shanty or jig.Emmylou Harris, Bill Monroe, T.Rex. Brian Wilson. The Carter family. Leonard Cohen. KraftWerk. Pink Floyd. Hank Williams. The Magnetic Fields. Brian Eno. Bruce Springsteen. Woody Guthrie. Jonathan Richman. Nick Drake. Joy Division. Slick Rick. David Bowie. The Swans. Elliot Smith. the Ramones. "the Killer" Jerry lee lewis...Daniel Johnston.

Movies:

Master and Commander, Treasure Island, The Bounty, Pirates of the...

Television:

Gilligan's Island, The Love Boat, Lost...

Books:

Moby Dick,Odd Thomas. Forever Odd. -These are great, fun books. Any E.L. Doctorow. Calab Carr. Walter Moseley. R is for rocket. Golden Apples of the sun. The Illustrated Man, etc. I finished "Brother Odd" and its was great. Now I'm reading all mother goose tales....

Heroes:

Admiral Nelson, The Dude, Robert Kennedy, Tom Joad, The American Farmer; the Workers of the world. Popeye, Nero Wolfe, Archie Goodwin, The BatMan, Odd Thomas, Jules Verne, Edison,Ray Bradbury...

My Blog

Deadwood

Deadwood ( which I've only just begun to watch as we don't have cable ) is a great production. The best I've seen in long while. Like the Sopranos, but with some actual heros, or at least "good" chara...
Posted by John C. on Fri, 22 Dec 2006 09:56:00 PST

Feast of Saint Nicholas

St. Nicholas, called "of Bari", Bishop of Myra (Fourth Century) 6 Dec. Feast day. The great veneration with which this saint has been honored for many ages and the number of altars and churches which ...
Posted by John C. on Wed, 06 Dec 2006 06:05:00 PST

Thanksgiving, a fractured nation and Abe Lincoln...

Post Civil War; Lincoln wanted the broken nation to have something, anything in common.. .a new national holliday- "thanksgiving". Of course this pagan harvest festival had been around since tim...
Posted by John C. on Thu, 23 Nov 2006 07:53:00 PST

THE CONQUEROR WORM

Lo! 'tis a gala night Within the lonesome latter years! An angel throng, bewinged, bedight In veils, and drowned in tears, Sit in a theatre, to see A play of hopes and fears, ...
Posted by John C. on Tue, 31 Oct 2006 05:46:00 PST

Inside Man

Spike Lee's "Inside man" is the best Heist movie to come along in the last few years. In fact, it's one of the better over-all films I've seen in quite some time. Leave it to Mr. Lee to explore such n...
Posted by John C. on Sat, 07 Oct 2006 09:08:00 PST

the Halloween Tree

"I'm too old for Halloween", this is what people say; people who are somewhere in between drinking in the woods and taking their kids sledding. I'm too old- I know that. I can't go trick-or-trea...
Posted by John C. on Thu, 21 Sep 2006 01:24:00 PST

boring lady in the water.....

This movie really sucked. I wish I could say otherwise; I've been mulling it over for a week now... ..yep, it's a stinker. what happend to that director? Were "the sixth sense" and "signs" flukes...
Posted by John C. on Thu, 27 Jul 2006 12:59:00 PST

AS220 Foo Fest

I was really taken aback by just how much fun that shin-dig was. I had come to accept that one just couldn't have a good time in the city, at night, in the summer, with little money- maybe I was mista...
Posted by John C. on Tue, 18 Jul 2006 12:56:00 PST