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Rhubarb.com You have navigated to the PERSONAL section… VITAL STATS **I was born in **Mom lives in **My nickname is Rhubarb,
or “Rhuby”, if you prefer. I usually
will have my credit in the program say Rhubarb. It is easier to be called by my nickname than to have people
mispronounce my real name, which I am (unfortunately) deaf to, and have them
get upset. Rhubarb, this should be a
cool story but it isn’t really, was given to me by my pack of friends
(specifically Katie and Jemiah, if memory serves) who decided that I needed a
nickname and it should be a food-related nickname and maybe it should be
“Rhubarb” or “Rutabega” but Rhubarb sounded better. All kinds of parallels, now that the name has stuck, can be
drawn between the vegetable and myself, it is pretty entertaining to read
into it actually. **“Matt” is Mark’s cat,
he is a tank, but is quite active despite weighing so much. “Boo” is a relatively new addition to our
household, we adopted him from a set of friends who had a baby that ended up
being allergic to cats; now all four of us live happily together, and the
cats fight and love like brothers. My
beloved “Wheat” had to be put down a year or so ago, he was fighting a losing
battle with a nasty intestinal cancer, and we had to make a good choice for
him. **Hobbies include
sleeping, gardening, reading, Stouts (especially Imperial) and Scotch. Favorite sports are hockey, baseball and
soccer. #1 colors rotate between
green, purple and orange. I like to
eat lots of different styles of cooking, mostly things with intense or
interesting flavor. I don’t have
cable, and I live just fine. **I am very big on karma
and giving both credit and blame where they are due. This includes my cute webpage here. I could pay $$ and have Pegaweb remove
their logo. But they did such a
smashing job!! **I use Rx339, Broadway
Pink, somewhere in every show. It is
the most awful hideous pink you ever did see. And I love it. **The filler from the
resume--I went to school at George Washington High School & magneted to
CEC (Career Education Center), with emphasis in Graphic Arts and Theatre, I
also took IB/X/AP classes including French, Physics,
programming/TurboCAD. As an adult, I
attended Coe College, then The Ohio State University Main Campus. My degree is terminal, there is no higher
education I can attain. I took
theatre, graphic arts, film, dance and CAD, mostly. I have worked Summer Stock all over the nation. **I am the only person in
existence who has a complete set of “A Dog Named Jesus” comic strips, and
that includes their artist, Pete Lauf.
Pete, contact me if you read
this!! :) I miss your face! PEOPLE I KNOW—THE BIG PLUG Firstly, let me say that if you are not in this and think
you should be, it is not personal.
Just let me know and I’ll insert you right away!! **Some of my “best and
closest” are writers: Jemiah Jefferson
is my best friend from high school, buy her books. Lars Pearson
is my friend from college, in addition to being a righteous guy, he our
nation’s foremost authority on Dr. Who, you should buy his books too. Ian
C. Stewart is always in the forefront of music--you should buy
up all backissues of his projects.
Also, Ian C.
Stewart has his own label, which has an excellent
catalog. The
Fabulous ChadderK was one of the first persons I met at
college, and still one of my closest friends, both in terms of miles and
grokkitude. Buy his art, hire him
out, go to his store too. Chris Mihm has musical interests, but
he’s just gotten into movie making too: all fine stuff from a fine
person. **Other people I know are
in bands. Favorite locals
(alphabetical order to help avoid offense) include ABCD
Andreana
Cortez All the Pretty Horses CIVILIAN
Downcast Echodriver
Epicurean
Faux
Jean FunkWire
God’s
Lunchbox Harsh Reality The
Heed Jessy
Greene **Some of the strangest
people I know just are creative beyond all get-out and they deserve a
high-five too. Claudia Linquanti is my girlfriend from high school. Mouser is
an all around smartypants that I met during my tenure at undergrad. Jeff Powers was
a friend in high school who I haven’t heard from in a dog’s age but my
girlfriend saw his site on the web and I feel like linking to it, so there. OTHER STUFF **I enjoy reading books
of all kinds. I check out stacks and stacks
of everything interesting. **My favorite kinds of
music are: anything except offensive rap and twangy country. I especially enjoy jazz (big band/vocalist
or fusion especially), art-rock (Talking Heads, Cowboy Mouth, New Order,
BareNaked Ladies and They Might Be Giants type), and what everyone else terms
easy listening (Barry Manilow, Neil Diamond, Englebert Humperdinck and the
ilk). I am a big big fan of Indian
Devotional music. I grew up on
Beatles, Wings, BeeGees, Donovan, Melanie, et al and haven’t learned to
dislike them yet. Ian and Mark have
kept me supplied with all of the metal and hard punk I will need, ask them
which ones I like. This is by no
means a comprehensive listing! The
more time signature changes, synth, or “musician’s band” it is, the more I
like it. **There are a couple
bands I am passionately against but I won’t tell you, so that you don’t use
that information for evil purposes. **I don’t think there was
ever a quiz that I could turn down. **I enjoy black comedies
and English humor most of all. I like
“thinky” movies and Bollywood. I
enjoy “sprited discussion” (which basically means that I enjoy arguing, where
everyone agrees that nobody is to take anything personally). I think it makes one’s ideas and beliefs
stronger, to have thought them through, have reasoning and be able to defend
those ideas and beliefs to others.
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