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PHOTO: Salt Lake City's courageous Mayor Rocky Anderson (white shirt), myself ("Bush again?" screamer shirt), and 3,000 others marching up State Street protesting the politics and policies of George W. Bush during Bush's visit to our fair city August 30, 2006. www.thenation.com

CHESS MUSINGS: I like playing as black because I'm left-brained, and some days I think my brain has left. // Chess often tastes like a fine bottle of Scotch Whisky needing to be sipped slowly and undiluted at room temperature. // Black always moves first -- Willard Nunn, R.I.P. (a black friend during the 70s, and Willard always did move first!)

MESSAGE FROM MY CAT: Please don't tap on the glass! ^oo^

HOBBIES: Gardening, bicycling, recycling
INTERESTS: World War II, 19th century Americana
FAVORITE MOVIES: Amadeus, De-Lovely, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Eraserhead, Man on the Moon, Matchstick Men (these six movies have a common theme if you can believe that!)
OTHER MEMORABLE MOVIES: The Visitor (a good description of my professional life); Dances with Wolves ("Turned Injun, didn't you!?"); Grave of the Fireflies; Local Hero; Unforgiven; Starman; Ed Wood; The Road Warrior; The Browning Version (both '51 and '94 versions are exquisitely painful)
FAVORITE BOOKS: Rumpole of the Bailey (RIP: January 16, 2009); Lord of the Rings (Just the books, not the movies); Maus
RECENTLY READ: Himmler (a full-scale biography by Peter Padfield)
FAVORITE TV SHOWS: Rumpole of the Bailey; Dragnet 1967-70 (Just the facts, ma'am)
USED-TO-BE FAVORITE TV SHOWS: Breaking Bad (I do not like how season 2 ended); Red Dwarf (I loved series I through VI, but when the smeg-heads remastered the earlier episodes all the charm was removed.)
FAVORITE RADIO PROGRAMS: This American Life; Wiretap
FAVORITE COMPOSERS: Bach, Handel, Stravinsky, Burt Bacharach
FAVORITE WORST U.S. PRESIDENT: George W. Bush
FAVORITE FOOD: Peanut butter
FAVORITE LOOK: www.youtube.com and www.youtube.com
FAVORITE FANTASY: I'd like to time-travel back to the year 1618 and explore the Hudson River Valley: imagine how magnificent it must have been! I'd then give smallpox inoculations and modern-day weapons to all the natives and warn them to be on the look-out for foreign terrorists arriving by boat -- take that, space-time continuum!

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BULLWINKLE'S CORNER:

I saw a man pursuing the horizon;
Round and round they sped.
I was disturbed at this;
I accosted the man.
"It is futile," I said,
"You can never--"

"You lie," he cried,
And ran on.

-- Stephen Crane