User:Kcarlin

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What I like:

• Neal Adams - known for his greens
• Black Adder - with a plan so cunning you could put ears on it and call it a weasel
• Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact - John W. Campbell - Ben Bova - Stanley Schmidt
• Project Apollo - going where no man has gone since
• The Art of War - the fundamentals
• Jon Astley - but is it...commercial?
• David Bromberg - the danger man
• The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension - no matter where you go, there you are
• José Raúl Capablanca - the chess machine, and perfect gentleman - the best of Cuba
• George Washington Carver - making everything out of anything
• Geoffrey Chaucer - poet, pilgrim, soldier, diplomat, customs officer
• Winston Churchill - righteous defiance personified
• John Cleese - the Black Knight, in the abattoir, with a parrot
• Cocoa Beach - missiles, tiki bars, sushi, the head parrot head
• Bill Cosby - the man who gave me the story of Noah
• Richard Curtis - running the gamut from Adder to Actually
• Frederick Douglass - a writer so powerful his autobiography was denounced as a ghosted hoax by his enemies
• Dune (novel) - as the worms turn
• Bob Dylan - he knows something is happening but...
• Edward, the Black Prince - a bit like the girl with the curl
• Epaminondas - smashed Sparta and established a string of democratic city-states to the horror of Athens
• William Faulkner - a nose for Emily
• F. Scott Fitzgerald - flapper mapper
• Peter Gabriel - the sledgehammer
• John of Gaunt - the houses, the women, the family life...
• Cary Grant - a better actor than we could have imagined
• Al Green (musician) - take him to the river
• Victor Davis Hanson - culture, carnage, Carlin: these are all 'c' words
• Goldie Hawn - the 1960's IT girl (information technology was much more fun then)
• Robert A. Heinlein - by his bootstraps
• Hellboy - so, how does a demon exercise free will?
• Ernest Hemingway - the terse youth
• Henry II - what a family dinner table!
• Nat Hentoff - the principal of principle
• Katharine Hepburn - playing opposite the weaker sex
• Charlton Heston - the best baptist ever
• John Hiatt - cause we haven't left the parking lot
• James P. Hogan (writer) - everything you know is wrong
• Homer - an inspirational figure who overcame the handicaps of being blind, and possibly fictitious, to found Western epic literature
• Thomas Jefferson - founding father of the University of Virginia
• Jack Kirby - the man who was king
• Cyril M. Kornbluth - the man who foresaw the demand for ventilated spaceships
• Lahaina, Hawaii - a whale of a town (but don't monkey with the tree)
• Emanuel Lasker - the model of the modern grandmaster
• Stan Lee - the man who is "The Man"
• Lee Teng-hui - the pragmatic democrat
• C. S. Lewis - agape's solicitor
• Apple Macintosh - the distinguished opposition
• Walter M. Miller - prophet of Liebowitz
• John Milton - an epic protestant
• Monticello - an enlightened house
• Moties - The Mote in God's Eye - ISBN 0671741926
• Bob Newhart - he's got Guiding Light right behind him
• Larry Niven - master of Known Space
• Patrick O'Brian - man of letters
• Danny O'Keefe - chronicler of the self-afflicted
• George S. Patton - fascinating man, mad as a hatter
• Pearl (poem) - where the streets have no name - the Middle English compliments of the University of Virginia
• Plato - metaspelunker
• Jerry Pournelle - the lord of Chaos Manor
• James Randi - The million dollar skeptic
• Teddy Roosevelt - famous to the ages as Alice Roosevelt's father
• P. Craig Russell - for bringing art nouveau to H. G. Wells
• Arnold Schwarzenegger - gets the gray out
• Scipio Aemilianus Africanus - carthagio delenda est - the adopted son makes good
• William Shakespeare - he wrote them! get over it!
• Julian Simon - winner of the purple wagers
• Adam Smith - the other event of 1776
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - conscience of a nation
• Bud Sparhawk - at the Dragon
• Sports Night - the best work of Aaron Sorkin
• Jim Steranko - master stylist
• Robert Louis Stevenson
• Al Stewart - the tiltawhirl of pop
• Tom Stoppard - wicked
• Richard Thompson - she was pushed
• To Kill a Mockingbird - facts versus point of view
• Alexis de Tocqueville - slept on the volcano
• J. R. R. Tolkien - catch his work editing Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - the Middle English
• Linus Torvalds - found more than most to property rights
• Spencer Tracy - on screen, a 20th Century American everyman
• Trout Fishing in America - the musical duo, not the book they drew their name from
• Harriet Tubman - extremest in the cause of liberty
• Mark Twain - letter writer from the Earth
• U2 - how long?
• Van Morrison - streetlights all turn blue?
• John Varley - improving with age
• Jules Verne - and his editor, who insisted on upbeat stories with happy endings
• Leonardo da Vinci - genius
• Lech Wałęsa - Socialism defeated by a trade union (you just can't make this stuff up!)
• Booker T. Washington - the perfect is still the enemy of the good
• George Washington - by standing forward, and then standing down, the Father of the Republic
• Simon Wiesenthal - never forget
• Wikipedia (see: Wikipedia:About) - flawed but fabulous
• Colonial Williamsburg - where the Whigs and Tories are still going at it
• Warren Zevon - the bard of Roland