Science Fiction for Thinkers
The official website of science fiction author Michael Casher
100 data bytes about Michael Casher...
1. Most of my life is personal but I'll share certain things.
2. Jazz, Big Band and Classical are my most favorite music.
3. Miles Davis, Wes Montgomery, John Coltrane, Dexter Gordon
4. Charles Mingus, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Paul Desmond
5. Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne, Peggy Lee, Julie London, Sade
6. Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Artie Shaw, Count Basie
7. Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Kay Kyser, Vaughn Monore
8. Sinatra was the best and the classiest song "stylist" ever.
9. I met folk/blues singer John Lee Hooker.
10. He and B.B. King are my favorites for blues.
11. Simon & Garfunkel, Beach Boys, early Beatles, Motown, Polkas
12. Strauss, Sousa, Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Gershwin, Debussy
13. Ray Charles, Patsy Cline, Nat King Cole, Willie Nelson
14. I don't really listen to music all that much anymore.
15. I prefer silence or the sounds of nature.
16. I like French Impressionism and Andrew Wyeth.
17. I like watercolor landscapes and portraits by little-known artists.
18. I don't get all excited by the fine-dining experience.
19. I haven't watched live TV since 1995.
20. I like gumshoe and gangster movies, comedies, 1950's sci-fi.
21. I dislike tear-jerkers, lewdness, sick violence and nasty language.
22. I love The Three Stooges, especially with the original Curly.
23. I like old sitcoms: Andy Griffith, Dick Van Dyke, Barney Miller,Taxi.
24. Old crime dramas like Hawaiian Eye, Kojak, Mannix, 77 Sunset Strip.
25. The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson. No one's topped that.
26. Don't try to sell me your religion.
27. Don't make your problems my problems.
28. Don't ask me to help you with your book.
29. Don't make me your enemy or become mine.
30. The best writers make life clearer to us.
31. The worst writers only titillate our senses.
32. I bought my first and only pickup truck in 1998 (Ford Ranger).
33. I rode a bicycle 30 miles to drive it home.
34. My religious beliefs, or lack of them, are my own affair.
35. No one may get up close and personal, not anymore.
36. I don't like to talk about my private life. Dig for dirt elsewhere.
37. "Private" and "personal" mean "none of your business".
38. Besides, my "private life" consists of eating, sleeping, working,
39. watching TV, cooking, yard work, housework and shopping.
40. That's been my "private life" for the past 25 years. Bigass deal.
41. I don't care for spectator sports and I think reality TV is stupid.
42. I watch recorded movies and old sitcoms to escape from reality.
43. Traditional publishers only care about one thing.
44. They like making money and lots of it.
45. That's why there's so much copycat trash in regular bookstores.
46. I like the setting sun — yellow, orange and red — on brick walls.
47. I turned down a job offer from Time Magazine in 1978.
48. I don't like to hear a phone ring and I dislike talking on one.
49. I don't like pranks and practical jokes.
50. It's only fun for the pranksters and it's hostility in disguise.
51. I was Rwanda's Ambassador to ECMUNC in 1969.
52. I was a high school grad with highest honors.
53. I have never looked back on those days, not even once.
54. I got drafted out of college halfway through.
55. Then I worked in a hospital for pennies.
56. Then I was told that I was drafted by mistake.
57. I never finished college after that. Mistake my ass.
58. Some Feds are dangerous and unrepentant criminals.
59. If you mess with me you will live to regret it.
60. I'm a recluse who values his privacy and that is my right.
61. But I'm not a hermit who's unapproachable.
62. I'm intrigued by the 1930's Art Deco (Moderne) period.
63. TV, Hollywood and low-life are destroying our American heritage.
64. The worst betrayal in life comes from those closest to you.
65. The cruelest betrayal is when they don't care about the damages.
66. The biggest betrayal is when good people are treated badly.
67. I met poet Nikki Giovanni in 1978.
68. If black Americans are called African-Americans these days
69. then why aren't white Americans called European-Americans?
70. The world is not black-and-white, it's in living color.
71. I was in the White House once (took the tour in 1969).
72. I got three letters from the White House.
73. One of them is from the Reagan White House.
74. Two of them are from the G. W. Bush White House.
75. None of the above makes me a big deal. Why would it?
76. I moved to Greenwich Village once.
77. I moved out the very next day.
78. The Big Apple was full of worms.
79. I wouldn't go to Las Vegas to take a crap.
80. I haven't been on a bar stool since 1991.
81. I got tired of staring straight ahead.
82. I got tired of keeping that kind of company.
83. I did it to drink beer, eat pretzels and watch TV.
84. But, hell, you can do that at home in your PJ's.
85. I dislike funerals for a lot of reasons.
86. Funerals are phony people paying their respects to the dead
87. instead of paying attention to the living.
88. In 1996 I arranged and paid up front for my own cremation.
89. I don't want an obituary, a service or a marker when I die.
90. Our two-party political system needs to be overhauled.
91. The Internet fell short of becoming a great Information Highway.
92. It's mostly a hideout for creeps, crooks and scoundrels
93. who would be in chains anywhere else.
94. The rest of us are their suckers.
95. When Cyndi Lauper sang on PBS
96. "At Last My Love Has Come Along"
97. I wanted to be young again.
98. She's a woman at last.
99. There is one thing I know for sure.
100. I don't want to die without making a difference.
Michael Casher
(Jonco Bugos)
About the author...
Michael Casher is a science fiction author from a small Appalachian community in the USA. He started writing science fiction novels in 2002 as a full-time, independent author, after nearly half a lifetime of working for others at various positions in labor, banking and insurance. Mr. Casher often refers to that part of his life as his "data gathering" period. The author shares a home in Pennsylvania with his elderly mother and an old tomcat named "Lucky"
Books by Michael Casher are published by Science Fiction for Thinkers.com using Print-On-Demand technology from Lulu.com . The author also writes literary fiction under the pen name Jonco Bugos (pronounced YONK-oh BOO-gosh). Printed books by Michael Casher and Jonco Bugos can be purchased at Amazon.com, Lulu.com, Blackwell.co.uk and many other online bookstores worldwide.
In 2009 the author's official website, Science Fiction for Thinkers.com, also published Kindle Editions of Michael Casher's science fiction novels and the novella by Jonco Bugos. These ebook editions were published exclusively for reading on Amazon's revolutionary wireless reading device, Kindle, and the Kindle applications for Blackberry, iPhone, iPad, PC and Mac.
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