ME!

(1) About my Self: The question is too vague. If you define the Self as the physical body, then what is currently about my self is a bedroom which you'd have no interest in my describing, thus I won't waste words on it. But perhaps you accept that the Self is something other. Is it the mind? Is it Krshna Consciousness? I am not even sure I can give a satisfactory answer to myself what the Self is, let alone give an accounting to another of this ineffable thing. Please rephrase or withdraw the question. Or check out http://www.nowhereatall.net/bmkbio.html .

(2) About my interests: I am interested in Life, Love, Liberty, and enLightenment; nothing more, nothing less. I dabble in most everything (reading, writing, computers, drawing, designing, traveling, whatever), but things shall only hold my interests in-so-far-as they pertain to one of those four catagories.

(3) My interests in literature are extremely eclectic. I enjoy writers who have intelligence, wit, and imagination and know how to apply them. Favourite examples include Douglas Adams, Aleister Crowley, Marquis De Sade, Satprem, Leo Tolstoy, James Clavell, Roger Zelazny, Mike Resnik, Jack Chalker, Dan Simmons, George Orwell, Anthony Burgess, and Anton LaVey (all in no particular order). My interests in film are also eclectic, though I prefer old films, British films, or some independant films. Favourite movies include It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, various works by Mel Brooks, by the Marx Brothers, by Monty Python, The Star Wars trilogy, and works by Tarantino (again, in no particular order). Perhaps not too surprisingly, my musical tastes also vary. I enjoy a lot of old metal, old punk, gothic, industrial, jazz, the blues, blue grass, country, classical, among other things. Favourite musicians include Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Alice Cooper, GWAR, Killing Joke, Einsturzende Neubauten, Souxsie and the Banshees, and many others.

(4) My strong points for this course, Writing Drama, are in being a good writer with a strong mind. My weak points are I am under-motivated and have no memory for trivia.

(5) My only apprehension about college in general is an overall feeling that most colleges today seem to be industrial centers bent on milking students and the government for all they are worth with no real concerns for what education really means or whether the students should receive anything substantial behind that sacred parchment called a degree. My only apprehension about this course, which is by no means a small one, is that you seem determined to teach this course as a Literature and Drama Trivia course (i.e., knowing the damnedest thing about Juli Harris will not help to make me a better writer) and not as the writing workshop I had hoped and would much rather find it to be.

(6) The first thing I heard about you, Dr. Ted Price, was that we shall both hate each other and we shall both know that we shall hate each other. I do not know about you but I have not formulated an opinion on this yet. The second thing I have heard is that you force all your students in every class to buy your work which is said to be a completely prejudicial piece of tripe with no support from the academic community. For better or for worse, you have not actually forced that upon our class so that is an issue I won't have to deal with. I've also heard that you are both a racist and a sexist and that you have a thing for April-December romances and you have no ethical principals that prevent you from trying to manipulate your female students into such arrangements. Being white and male, I expect I shall not have to worry about the truth of these allegations either.