BAD321... it's good for you!

About Me

Sailing, and when there's no wind, waiting for the sun to go over the yardarm so the partying can begin. Some say that I'm a ne'er-do-well, an idler, a loafer, and a professional wastrel, but I do actually work. There's a serious side, too, but I'm not going there right now.

Agnostic, but not an athiest. Don't like Intelligent Design fanatics, and do believe in Darwinism. And thanks, Lexidiem, for the help and guidance on this.

"So long, and thanks for all the fish!"

My Interests

Raconteur, satirist, critic, gadfly, editor, infrequent journalist, educactor, lecturer, sailor, coffee addict, Internet, books, news, weird news, humor, stupidity, the pursuit of happiness, sex, sensuality, love, lust, erotica, passion, jazz, rock and roll, new age, classical music, film, disciple of Ambrose Bierce, etc

Music

Classical, jazz, new age, rock, blues, bossa nova, Jimmy Buffett, Tom Waits, J.S. Bach, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Led Zepplin, Astrud Gilberto, J.S.Bach, Antonio Vivaldi, The Doors, Aerosmith, Janet Jackson, Carly Simon, Joe Jackson, Kinky Friedman, Willie Nelson, Andrea Bocelli, Enya, Sting, Sarah Brightman, Josh Groban, Carly Simon, Dire Straits, Kate Bush, James Taylor, Chris Botti, Andreas Vollenweider, Sade, Grover Washington, Mike Oldfield, Vivaldi, Kate Bush, U2, Jimmy Buffett, Alan Parsons, Bond, Santana, Steely Dan, Michael Macdonald, George Gershwin, Peter Gabriel, Tina Turner, Nina Simone, Händel, Mose Allison, Diane Krall, MJQ, Ella Fitzgerald, Robert Palmer, Neil Diamond, Gypsy Kings, Jeff Beck, Edith Piaf, Michael Franks, Pink Floyd, Beatles, Elton John, Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder, and I know that I need to organize these so don't remind me!

Movies

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, A Man and a Woman, Some Like It Hot, Dr. Strangelove, Apocalypse Now, The Graduate, Schindler's List, Star Wars, The Godfather, Full Metal Jacket, The African Queen, Italian Job, Psycho, West Side Story, A Clockwork Orange, Taxi Driver, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Silence of the Lambs, Dances with Wolves, American Graffiti, The Postman, Platoon, Patton, Zorba the Greek

Television

America's Cup Races, CSI, History Channel, Cooking, Hallmark Theater, BBC, Playboy Channel, Sex and the City, Men in the Trees, Jay Leno, TCM, HBO, VH-1, music videos, Law and Order, Law and Order SVU, Law and Order Criminal Intent, Grey's Anatomy, The Office, FOX News, Jerry Springer

Books

Ambrose Bierce, Books by Anonymous, Kick Ass, Memoirs of a Geisha, Bulfinch's Mythology, The Story of O, The Complete Sailor's Manual, Jorge Amado, erotica, new-age poetry, classical poetry, Joseph Heller, Carl Hiaasen, Malcolm Gladwell, Richard Lederer, Douglas Adams, Bill Weld, John Steinbeck, Jean Shepherd, Mark Twain, Sun-tzu, John Updike, Christopher Locke, Stephen King, Ernest Hemingway, Herman Melville, Andre Dubus, Larry MacMurty, Erica Jong, Kinky Friedman, Bobby Henderson, John Gresham, Anais Nin, F. Scott Fitzgerald, D. H. Lawrence, James Patterson, Henry Miller, Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, Susie Bright, Lynne Truss, Frank McCourt, Sandra Brown, Lewis Carroll, Nicholas Sparks, Lynne Truss, Dante Alighieri, Janet Evanovich, Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, L. Frank Baum, Emily Brontë, George Orwell, A Clockwork Orange, Name of the Rose, Umberto Ecco, Associated Press Stylebook, Chicago Manual of Style, Elements of Style by Strunk & White, Eats Shoots & Leaves