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100 personal data bytes About Michael Casher...

 
 
  1. My taste in music is based on each song
  2. Miles Davis is my favorite jazz artist
  3. Wes Montgomery would be second
  4. John Coltrane is third but just by a hair
  5. I don't like modern Country & Western
  6. Except for Willie Nelson, who's superb
  7. I like Patsy Cline and Hank Williams Sr.
  8. Johnny Gimble's Texas Swing Pioneers
  9. Yesterday's singers like Patty Page
 10. Nat King Cole and Ella Fitzgerald
 11. But nobody beats Sinatra for class
 12. And nobody sings jazz like Sade
 13. But I like big band instrumentals most of all
 14. Met folk/blues singer John Lee Hooker
 15. He was very cordial and polite to me
 16. He and B.B. King are my blues favorites
 17. I'm probably the only man alive who liked Bobby Vinton
 18. Strauss waltzes make me feel wonderful
 19. Mozart and Rachmaninoff move me greatly
 20. I'm ambivalent about most things
 21. That means I usually see both sides of anything
 22. Wrote and published six books so far
 23. A seventh book is in-progress
 24. It's experimental literary fiction
 25. Just had to give that genre a try
 26. My sci-fi thrillers aren't for everyone
 27. I love writing science fiction novels
 28. But marketing books is something I despise
 29. Spring water is my favorite drink
 30. Don't make your problems my problems
 31.  Don't try to sell me your religion
 32. Don't use my blogs, use yours to unload
 33. Bought my first pickup truck in 1998
 34. Rode a bicycle 30 miles to buy it
 35. Process radio signals for the SETI@home project
 36. It helps purge my negative karma
 37. Swam in the Caribbean 25 years ago
 38. I don't miss the service industry at all
 39. Once upon a time I was an artist
 40. But I finally wore that dream out
 41. My Internet art business went belly up
 42. No one may get up close and personal, not anymore
 43. Traditional publishers only care about one thing
 44. And that is making money and lots of it
 45. That's why there's so much trash in regular bookstores
 46. I like to see the setting sunshine on brick walls
 47. Turned down a job offer from Time Magazine in 1978
 48. It was for the best of reasons
 49. So damn tired of hostile rednecks
 50. I see them everywhere
 51. I was Rwanda's Ambassador to ECMUNC in 1969
 52. A high school grad with highest honors
 53. Never looked back on those days
 54. Drafted out of college half-way through
 55. Then worked in a hospital for pennies
 56. Then told I was drafted by mistake
 57. Never finished college after that
 58. A lot of feds are dangerous and full of shit
 59. Not all that interested in most people
 60. Most people's lives are all about themselves
 61.  ATVs are ruining the environment and our culture
 62. Love the 1930's Art Deco period
 63. Groucho Marx was an annoying little man
 64. Met poet Nikki Giovanni at Penn State
 65. She treated me like dirt because I was white
 66. I waited a long time for her autograph
 67. Then she just scribbled in my book
 68. Without even looking at me. Hmmmm.
 69. I knew sci-fi author William Tenn
 70. My sci-fi is nothing like his at all
 71. I was in the White House once
 72. Got three letters from the White House
 73. I knew a girl who knew Paul Newman
 74. None of the above makes me a big deal
 75. I write but don’t read science fiction novels
 76. Moved to Greenwich Village once
 77. Moved right out the very next day
 78. The Big Apple was full of worms
 79. I'm in my element in a small-town diner
 80. Haven't been on a bar stool since 1991
 81. Got tired of staring straight ahead
 82. And keeping that kind of company
 83. Just to drink beer and eat pretzels
 84. Hell, you can do that at home in your PJ's
 85. I dislike funerals for a lot of reasons
 86. The biggest reason is phony people paying their respects to the dead
 87. Instead of paying attention to the living
 88. I arranged for my own cremation in 1996
 89. No obituary or service for me, thank you
 90. Our two-party political system needs to be overhauled
 91. The Internet is not the Holy Grail
 92. It's a hideout for creeps, crooks and scoundrels
 93. They 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. Here is something I know for sure:
100. I don't want to die without making a difference





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