User:Kcarlin

Nothing to see here. Move along, move along. Nope! Nope! Keep moving...

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: About) - flawed but fabulous
 * Colonial Williamsburg - where the Whigs and Tories are still going at it
 * Warren Zevon - the bard of Roland