Flaming moderate, realist, computer geek, writer, unicyclist, record and phonograph collector, music historian, amateur astronomer, dedicated husband to one woman only and ever for over 20 years, father of two intelligent and artistic teens.
Public transportation as Method #1 for getting around.
Anyone interested in intelligent conversation. Closed minds need not apply.
Pretty much anything! I grew up on '60s and '70s pop and rock, but played (and still play!) all of my grandparents' 78s from before 1930. My record collection covers 11 decades, and is excess of 70 shelf-feet, nearly all vinyl and shellac. I do own a couple CDs, but not many.
I rarely see first-run movies, but see my blog entry about Sicko. Before that, I bought the DVD of "Shut Up And Sing", the documentary about The Dixie Chicks and their falling-out with the country music industry.
I stopped watching TV around 1977, and didn't own one after 1994. Entire multi-year series have come and gone without ever having seen a single show (Murphy Brown, Seinfeld, Survivor). Nevertheless, I have fond memories of 1970s-and-earlier shows like Hee Haw, Mary Hartman Mary Hartman, Marcus Welby, Room 222, Make A Wish, all the Warner Bros. cartoons, Lost In Space, even Ruff & Reddy!
I'm a major bookworm. If I'm not tripping over boxes of records, I'm tripping over piles of books. Recent reads: I'm Proud of You, by Tim Madigan (about Fred Rogers of MisterRogers Neighborhood); The Road, by Cormac McCarthy; The Inheritance of Loss, by Kiran Desai; and a Roman Catholic version of the Bible. Within the last year: Slaughterhouse 5; The Memory Keeper's Daughter; Blink; Wicked; His Dark Materials trilogy (The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass); Eragon; Eldest; I, Houdini; "The Cat Who" series; Shalimar The Clown; Whale Talk. See Oct 4 2006 blog entry.
Harry Chapin, John Lennon, Elbert Hubbard, Theodore Roosevelt, Rosa Parks, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Jesus Christ, Fred Rogers, Liz Book (see Mar 8 2008 blog entry).