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Spaceman Spiff

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About Me

Born in Dover, DE, (to parents from NJ and WV), I lived in southern CA until age 12, and then in Raton , (a small town in northeastern New Mexico), which I consider my home town. I attended New Mexico State Univ for 4 years (with a 1-yr exchange to Oregon State Univ), but did not complete a degree at that time, and later moved back to southern CA, settling in the Orange County area. After 10 years in the O.C., I moved to St. Petersburg, FL (Tampa Bay area) in 1990, and have been here ever since.I have avidly worked on my family's genealogy since the age of 15 -- over 30 years now!Having taken numerous college courses over the years, I finally bit the bullet and enrolled in a program in 2003 to finally complete my degree, and graduated from Eckerd College (a local, private, liberal arts college) in May 2005 with a B.A. degree in Creative Writing. Finally!---------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------- --- That's Nathan, not quite doing the "Elaine Dance"....-------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ ---
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My Interests

Writing; Photography; Genealogy; Clock collecting; Science Fiction (books and movies), as well as many other types of Reading; the Civil War; the Space Program; many types of Music; etc. ----------------------------------------------------------He re's some of my photography:
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I'd like to meet:

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Music:

Many kinds! (in random order): Simple Minds ; Sade; Pink Floyd; U2; Brian Setzer; Vangelis; Prince; Lloyd Cole ; John Williams; Bruce Springsteen ; Tears For Fears ; Clint Black ; Annie Lennox; Carl Orff; New Order; Philip Glass; The Waterboys; World Party ; Sting; The Cure; Stevie Wonder; The Carpenters ; Piotr Tchaikovsky; Thomas Dolby; John Denver; Ella Fitzgerald; The B52's; Linda Ronstadt; Peter Gabriel; A Flock of Seagulls; Manhattan Transfer; Mother Maybelle Carter; The Alan Parsons Project ; Lori McKenna ; Renaissance; Vince Guaraldi; Bjork Gudmundsdottir; The Psychedelic Furs; Amy Winehouse ; Paul Potts . ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------

Movies:

(in random order): "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," "The Color Purple," "A.I.-Artificial Intelligence," (and basically any other movie by Steven Spielberg ); "Sophie's Choice;" "Blade Runner;" "The Silence of the Lambs;" "Gattaca;" "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy; " Koyaanisqatsi ;" both "Star Wars" trilogies (yes, even Episode I!); "Signs," "The Sixth Sense," (and other M. Night Shyamalan films); "The Green Mile;" "October Sky;" "Ladyhawke," "E.T.;" "The Shawshank Redemption;" " 2001: A Space Odyssey ;" "The Killing Fields;" "The Natural;" " Pan's Labyrinth ;" "Contact."

Television:

(in random order): "Star Trek" (all five series); " Lost ;" "Babylon 5;" " The Dead Zone ;" "Seinfeld;" "Will & Grace;" " Firefly ;" " The X Files ;" " The Lone Gunmen " " Farscape ;" " Stargate SG-1 ;" (only since Ben Browder arrived); "Silent Sunday Nights" (silent movies on TCM--Turner Classic Movies); " The 4400 ;" " Battlestar Gallactica ." ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------- A Browncoat by any other name is still a Browncoat:

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Books:

(in random order): "The Stand" (and pretty much everything else) by Stephen King ; the "Ender" novels (especially "Xenocide") by Orson Scott Card ;" "Childhood's End" by Arthur C. Clarke ; The "Mars" trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson; "The Left Hand of Darkness" and "The Dispossessed " by Ursula LeGuin ; "Ceremony" by Leslie Marmon Silko ; the original " Dune " trilogy by Frank Herbert; the "Uplift" novels by David Brin ; anything by Ray Bradbury ; anything by Octavia E. Butler ; "Beloved" by Toni Morrison; the "Inspector Lynley" mysteries by Elizabeth George ; the "Nick Travers" mysteries by Ace Atkins ; anything by Shirley Jackson ; the "Harry Potter" novels by J.K. Rowling , the "Revelation Space" novels by Alastair Reynolds .

Heroes:

Neil Armstrong ; Rosa Parks ; Ira Hayes ; Matthew Shepard ; Ray Bradbury ; Prisoners of War ; Stephen Hawking ; Matt Hamill ; Danny .

My Blog

Maine & New Hampshire 2007!

Finally got the pics organized from this year's trip!  To see them, click the following link:http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=7halghdx.3dvv0dw1&a mp;x=0&y=wpm3o0(You don't have to sign in.&...
Posted by Spaceman Spiff on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 05:56:00 PST

3rd place and publication!!

Just got word a couple days ago that my short story "All That You Leave Behind" took 3rd place in The Rejected Quarterly's first ever Rejected Fiction Writing Contest!It's also slated for publication ...
Posted by Spaceman Spiff on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:15:00 PST

Received 2nd place in N3F writing contest

I placed 2nd in the National Fantasy Fan Federation's (N3F) 2006 Short Story Contest!http://www.n3f.org/N3Fssc.shtml(I was actually notified a couple months ago, but was waiting until they updated the...
Posted by Spaceman Spiff on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 08:19:00 PST

Maine & Canada, Fall 2006

For a slideshow of photos from the trip, click the following link:http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=7halghdx.4zpzzu4l&a mp;x=0&y=92qe5j(You don't have to sign in.  Just view the slideshow / ...
Posted by Spaceman Spiff on Tue, 17 Oct 2006 06:25:00 PST