Mike W.

The jazz greats, Miles, Coltrane, Parker, Ellington, Basie, Sachmo., Ravi Shankar is one of my favorite musicians.

Al Franken, Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorn, George Carlin, Herman Melville, Voltaire, Edgar Allen Poe, Kurt Vonnegut, David Sedaris, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, John Steinbeck, Gore Vidal, James A. Michener, George Orwell, Carl Sagan, David McCullough, Salman Rushdie, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Leo Tolstoy, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Richard Dawkins, Isaac Asimov, Kahlil Gibran, Emily Dickenson, Ann Rice, Paul Davies, Truman Copote, Jack Kerouac, Andrew Chaikin, Bram Stoker's Dracula, J R R Tolkien, Arthur C Clarke, Robert Heinlein, Frank Herbert, Stephen King, Stephen Baxter

Comedy, Sci-Fi, Historical, Drama, Federico Fellini, David Lynch, Martin Scorsese, Stanley Kubrick, Cohen Brothers, Francis Ford Coppola, Rob Reiner, Spinal Tap, Lord of the Rings

I avoid TV like the plague...

Stonehenge, Amsterdam, The Porcupine Mountains, North Shore of Lake Superior, Bath, Olympic National Park, Whistler, Tortola

Backpacking, astromony, comsology, composing, performing, guitar, philosophy, reading (mostly non-fiction), early American history, ancient world history, community service, politics, physics, nature study, science, quantum mechanics, string theory, travel, kayaking, engineering, ancient Egypt, geology, rocks and minerals, volcanos, musical improvisation

Respectful political discourse, alternative energy development, end of greed, negative population growth, closer existence with nature, more love, less hate

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Ohio University

Charles F. Brush