I’ve yet to write a post. I suppose that I should, if for no other reason than if people are going to “follow me”, they should know where I stand on things. That way, they can run for the hills when they find out that 1) I’m boring as all hell; or 2) My views are insane and should result in me being locked up and the key thrown away. It all depends on your perspective, I guess.
I am socially liberal (firmly believe that if people want to get married that’s THEIR business and not mine, and that if a woman wants to get an abortion, that’s between her and her doctor, and NO ONE ELSE).
I owned basset hounds for over 22 years (hence the profile photo)
. For a number of reasons, I can’t right now, but I still love the breed. They are amazing dogs.
I am a foreign policy “hawk”, I suppose, though my views have evolved considerably over the years. Example (and a mea culpa): I was a strong supporter of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. In hindsight, I was completely, unequivocally wrong. That war was a disaster on so many different levels that this country has not recovered from it (just look at the many thousands of useless deaths, the financial cost, the rise of Iran, etc., etc., etc.), and it may never recover from it.
I’m a registered political independent who over the years has voted for Democrats, Republicans, and third-party candidates.
I’m a diehard fan of the Montreal Canadiens. As I’ve gotten older, I care less and less about sports in general………………but not the Canadiens. I still agonize (somewhat) over their wins and losses, and the fact that they haven’t won a Stanley Cup in three decades causes me to be sad.
I love science fiction, but not gross/gory SciFi. My favourite kind is by far “alternative history”, which investigates the “What Ifs” of history. If you are into that, I think that Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle’s “Lucifer’s Hammer” is probably still the best (and it’s also the most gripping “end of the world” book I’ve read), though “The Man in the High Castle”, by Philip K. Dick, is still the bar against which all other books in this genre are measured.
My musical tastes are all over the place, but I’ll just say that I saw Coldplay live last June and it was likely the best concert I’ve ever seen.
I just realized I called you by your middle name. My bad.
Hi Mark. So you like dick. I'm just being an ass. I also like him. I've been reading sci fi for 50 plus years, so I'd be hard pressed to pick a favorite. Well, if I was pressed, it might be Clifford Simak. Off hand, I like Asimov's '3 laws of robotics 'stuff, all Niven, especially the ringworld stuff, even the awipe Ron Hubbard with his Doc Methuselah bunch. I mostly read newsletters lately, but the last book that I read was Noumenon by Marina Lostetter, which I really liked.
Musically, back when I was a kid, long before MTV and internet, the main TV show's were Soul Train, American Bandstand and the Ed Sullivan show.
Nowadays I listen to a local rock station.
I like both rock and alternative. Both normal and weird. Weird being stuff like The Great Kat and Shonen Knife. Currently, I'm down to just a DVD player and my CD's skip like crazy, so I have an Evanescence DVD on a loop. Concert wise, if I had the money, it would be Ghost. Their current radio hit is 'jesus loves me'. An anti religious cover of a Phill Collins song.