Name: BluesDuke
Sex: Her prerogative, my honour, and none of your damned business
Born: Yes.
Birthplace: Hospital.
Specify, jerk! New York City.
Parents' Names: Mother and Dad.
College: Yes. And I attained an education regardless.
Occupation: Writer, editor, broadcaster, blues guitarist/songwriter, scourge of authoritarians left and right, and---as of 6 July 2009---radio humourist. (Go ahead, call me a sit-down comedian if you must.) Doing old-time radio the new-time way---standing athwart nostalgia, yelling "Art!".
Last Books Read: The Benchley Roundup (Robert Benchley); Driving Us Crazy (P.J. O'Rourke), Losing Mum and Pup (Christopher Buckley), On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio (John Dunning).
Last Albums Listened To: Beach Samba (Astrud Gilberto); Live at Newport '58 (Horace Silver), Riding with the King (B.B. King, Eric Clapton); Porgy and Bess (Miles Davis/Gil Evans); Behind the Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart (three guesses).
Favourite Writers: Goodman Ace, Roger Angell, Thomas Boswell, Martin Buber, Albert Camus, Frank Chodorov, Ralph Ellison, Wiliam Faulkner, Aldous Huxley, John Locke, H.L. Mencken, Frank Meyer, Jim Murray, Albert Jay Nock, Francois Rabelais, Red Smith, James Thurber, others.
Favourite Music: Blues, jazz, classic soul, classical and experimental music, vintage rock, reggae.
Other Interests: Baseball, poetry, cooking, art, antiques, lighthouses (and anything to do with the sea), old-time radio.
Quote: " If you see a fork in the road, the greasy spoon is only a hundred feet away. "
Sign On Office Door: "Quiet! Genius Playing With Mental Blocks!"
Favourite Drink: Bourbon and Coke.
Worst Experience: I decided to become BluesDuke, and I am still paying for it.

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