About Me

I am ambidextrous.

I like to make people laugh.

I eat candies in the following order (reverse favorite):

ORANGE

It's pedestrian, though I wouldn't walk across the street for an orange candy.

YELLOW

At least yellow candies have a star with its own brand name (and band name): LemonHeads. I mostly only ever ate them when there wasn't other candy around.

BLACK

Black is licorice/anise flavored. Spicy and bold, it has more character than MOST of the citrus flavors.

GREEN

Lime is tart and racy and a bit uncontrolled for my tastes by itself. Yet, add sugar and it becomes the ultimate second-in-command.

RED

When younger, my brother who was a year older got everything blue and all my stuff was red; sort of by default. I was adventuresome but not necessarily passionate enough to have red be my favorite color. It was and is, though. Red (usually cherry) candy makes up for the fact that the choice wasn't all mine.

I'd like to help if I can.

I'd like mine with cheese.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

The Dalai Lama

Nadia Comaneci

Tom Robbins

Megan McCormick

The Buddha (On the road; so I can kill him)

Music:

Mozart; Brahms; Schubert; Wagner; Moussorgsky; Tchaikovsky; Shostakovich; Eric Satie; Aaron Copeland; Gershwin; Cole Porter; Louis Armstrong; Duke Ellington; Ella Fitzgerald; Willie 'The Lion' Smith; Robert Johnson; Billie Holiday; Dina Washington; Sarah Vaughn; Stan Getz; Astrud Gilberto; Joao Gilberto; Hank Williams; Patsy Cline; Chet Atkins; Johnny Cash; Sam Cooke; Miles Davis; Wayne Shorter; Weather Report; John McClaughlin; Carlos Santana; George Clinton; Marvin Gaye; The Beatles; War; Stevie Wonder; Blood Sweat and Tears; Todd Rundgren; Steely Dan; Led Zeppelin; Supertramp; ELO; Talking Heads; XTC; Sade; Everything But The Girl; They Might Be Giants; Squeeze; Echo and The Bunnymen; Joe Jackson; Elvis Costello; Issa; The Clash; The B-52s; Devo; Poi Dog Pondering; Kruder and Dorfmeister; Dr. Dog... more later.

Movies:

Brazil; Apocolypse Now; The Last Picture Show; Defending Your Life; Blood Simple; Napoleon Dynamite; Harold and Maude; The Graduate; Straw Dogs; Dr. Strangelove; Lolita; Bladerunner; It's A Wonderful Life; In The Heat Of The Night; The Princess Bride; Stranger Than Paradise; Do The Right Thing; Repo Man; North By Northwest; Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory; Heathers; After Hours.

Television:

The Andy Griffith Show; Leave It To Beaver; Ironsides; The Rockford Files; Kung Fu; The Simpsons; Barney Miller; Seinfeld; The Antiques Roadshow; Malcolm In The Middle; The Daily Show/Colbert Report; The Deadliest Catch; The Muppet Show; South Park; The Beverly Hillbillies; Mr. Ed; Lost In Space; Star Trek: The Next Generation; Adam 12; Night Gallery; Twilight Zone; Globetrekker.

Books:

Thomas and the Warlock (Or something like that); I read it when I was a kid and couldn't put it down until I finished. Jitterbug Perfume; The Painted Bird; The Magic Journey; Lolita (Nabokov was clever in his third or fourth language, not that clever=good but there was more to it than that); Sneetches and Other Stories (Including 'Too Many Daves' and 'What Was I Scared Of?'); Cat's Cradle/ Slaughterhouse Five; Catch 22; The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying; Of Love and Other Demons; To Kill A Mockingbird; Poems of William Carlos Williams, Anne Sexton, John Keats, Sappho and others; The writings of Kahlil Gibran; Operating Instructions; The Five People You Meet In Heaven; Short stories by Hemingway, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, David Sedaris, Edgar Allen Poe and others; Go Dog, Go!; Are You My Mother?; Mike Mulligan and the Steam Shovel; but I digress.

Heroes:

Mom; My brothers; Ray Charles; People who don't stop becoming

My Blog

Break Up

I saw the soft spotThat I used to kissWhen you were much closerBut it somehow seems harderTo trustAnd how come all those timesYou were supposedlyBending over backwardYou never kissed my assLike I aske...
Posted by B+ on Sun, 17 Dec 2006 10:41:00 PST

Saturday

Coffee-punk'd late movie fan-drawn Floor sleepEarly-rising hazy morn crust-eyed Donut shopPlans post-it noted on Chicago Saturday: Morning hoops Dinner at Karen's Go play poolLunch drink swe...
Posted by B+ on Sun, 17 Dec 2006 10:13:00 PST

Texture

Coughing softly in the loftBreathing fur and dustIs not the sameAs breathing softlyAnd it was softlyThat you said:Life is hardHard work; hard row to hoeIn the soft earthHarden your heartDon't go softS...
Posted by B+ on Sun, 17 Dec 2006 10:22:00 PST

Computers and you

Students,Last night I was attempting to upload some different photos that I had taken to MySpace.I came to this particular photo:The uplload was failing and I kept getting a message to the effect that...
Posted by B+ on Sat, 16 Dec 2006 08:23:00 PST

A Letter About A Friend's Departure

¡Hola!----------------- Original Message -----------------From: B+Date: Dec 13 2006 8:50 PMI kind of like the upside-down exclamation point. It's like a character so excited about the word it's introd...
Posted by B+ on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 10:00:00 PST

Detroit

Too late to yell 'Fly'! The boy had let go of the bottle that would overturn the mottled pigeon in the cold dirt of the city square The feathers on wingback stretched ...
Posted by B+ on Fri, 24 Nov 2006 11:55:00 PST