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Vitals: brown eyes, black hair, 5' 9", 160 pounds. Born in Washington D.C. July 22, 1949.
Graduated from Great Falls Elementary, Great Falls, Virginia.
Attended Christchurch School, Tappahannock, Virginia from 1963 to 1965.
Graduated from Langley High School, Langley, Virginia in 1967.
Graduated from Knox College with a B.A. in sociology in 1971.
Former member of the NRA, PETA, Saint Mark's Episcopal Church, the Paula Abdul Fan Club, Roman Catholic Church, Unitarian-Universalist Church, Cub Scouts, Students for a Democratic Society, Resist, Kiwanis Club, and the Communication Workers of America.
Jobs: assistant cable splicer, short order cook, survey taker, Libertarian Party organizer, political campaign director and news secretary, assistant director of public relations for a major hospital, newspaper photographer, reporter, news clerk, editor, and publisher, radio reporter, television commentator, media constultant, business consultant, life coach.
Countries lived in: Italy, Germany, Liberia, Switzerland. Countries visited: France, England, Belgium. States lived in: Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois. States visited: Georgia, Florida, California, Tennessee, Iowa, New York, New Hampshire, Maine, Pennsylvania, Massachussetts.
Gigs: Avon and Amway sales.
Columnist: Eye magazine, MacOpinion.com. Reviewer for Gray Areas magazine.
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words: it is war minus the shooting. - George Orwell.
Favorite football team: The Oakland Raiders.
Favorite baseball team: The New York Yankees.
Sexual orientation: heterosexual.
Addictions: caffeine, sugar. Social drinker - tipsy once a month if I'm lucky.
Quasi-vegetarian.
Thank you for not smoking.

I saw dead people - dead celebrities I have been in the same room with: Philip Agee, Spider Sabich, Arthur Conley, Phil Ochs, Vaugn Bode, Isaac Asimov, Sargent Shriver, R.W. Apple, James Reston, Clifton Daniel, Bukka White, Byron "Whizzer" White, Fred "Sonic" Smith, Paul Butterfield, Michael Bloomfield, Gene Rodenberry, Jack Carroll "Jay" Haldeman II, Alfred Bester, Roger Zelazny and Gerald Ford.
Brushes with greatness: Richard Kelly, Paul Rieckhoff, Jim Webb, Les Gelb, the Rev. Walter Fauntroy, Marshall Coleman, James Hunt, Terry Sanford, Jessie Helms, John Podesta, Wendy Webb, Mark Keller, Isaiah Sanders, Corky Siegel, Jim Schwall, Gail Palmer, Harlan Ellison (he called me a poster child for birth control), Chip Delaney, Kevin White, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Grace Lichtenstein, Seymour Hersh, Ray Bradbury, Jerry Falwell, Doug Kershaw, Frederik Pohl, John Jakes' daughter.

Amazing but true: Alice Cooper played at my senior prom. My favorite Michael J. Fox movies are "Teen Wolf" and "Doc Hollywood." Least favorite: "Light of Day" - man, did that movie suck hard. I want my money back, Mike. I have inhaled (repeatedly). I once made a Henrico Police Department officer in a patrol car cut and run with the sound of my voice. I once sold a pen refill to J. Edgar Hoover. My mother worked for J. Edgar Hoover's urologist. I may be the only person on the planet who has been to a Quaker meeting with Staughton Lynd and an Independent Baptist service with Jerry Falwell.

Most memorable psychedelic experience: watching "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly" in a movie theater full of screaming, stoned, and drunk college students while high on mescaline. Regrets: I didn't make Gloria Hubbell feel all right when she came to my room and started singing "Gloria." (Carol: Would you like to come upstairs for some coffee?
George Costanza: no, thanks. I can't drink coffee late at night, it keeps me up.) I didn't give Anne Christensen an orgasm. I didn't see Janis Joplin at the Fillmore West in 1968 because I thought I though she would be like Frank Sinatra: around forever. I didn't go to see Frank Sinatra at the Landmark Theater because I thought...

Subdivisions -
In the high school halls
In the shopping malls
Conform or be cast out - Rush: like Homer Simpson, banned from life from several shopping centers. Once thrown out of a bar in Charlottesville, Virginia for calling a woman a twit (not a misspelling).