Journalist and editor (of the hack variety) living in Detroit.
Photography, chess, fencing, silent films, stand-up comedy and martial arts.
Other journalists (brother/sister hacks always welcome), editors, writers, musicians, buried treasure hunters, pundits, cineastes, and .... kabuki enthusiasts?If you stare long enough into the abyss, the abyss charges a rental fee.
Brahms, Grainger, Donizetti ... Ornette Coleman, Miles Davis ... Lady Day, Edith Piaf, Juliette Greco, Dame Joan Sutherland ... Skip James, Sonny Boy Williamson ... The Yardbirds, MC5, The Temptations ... Lesley Gore, Maxine Brown.
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Sea Hawk, if..., Force of Evil, Mean Streets, Major Dundee, A Zed and Two Noughts, Ghost World and this could go on and on and on .....
The Prisoner, Twin Peaks, The X Files, Married With Children, The Munsters, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Homicide: Life on the Street, Combat, Lost, Gilmore Girls, Carnivale and (naturally) Meet The Press.
Everlasting Man, Anthony Adverse, Brighton Rock, The Razor's Edge, Lucky Jim and if you thought my list of movies could reach into infinity ....Favorite writer: Graham Greene Favorite poet: Roy Campbell
G.K. Chesterton, Whittaker Chambers, Orson Welles, Robert F. Kennedy, Dorothy Day, Roberto Clemente.