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Questions Name: Joseph Baruch MacGregor Miller Warren
Program Name, location, your role, and why: The Bellevue Community College Academic Service Learning program, Bellevue, Washington. I am one of the two coordinators. The other is Betsy Foley, with whom you may already have some acquaintance.
Places you've lived and or traveled:
I have lived in the following cities:
· Seattle, Washington (1979-1998) (2004-Present) Notes: arrogant, hip, non-smoking, sexy, moderately leftist
· Carson City, Nevada (2003) Notes: rural, un-sexy yet starkly beautiful, meth-crazed, chain smoking, dentally desperate, annually on fire, fanatically right wing
· Reno, Nevada (2004) Notes: less sexy than Seattle, more teeth than Carson, gambling addicted, moderately right wing
· Olympia, Washington (1998-2002) Notes: hipper – than – thou, non-bathing-non-shaving nonetheless extremely sexy, chain smoking for affect, fanatically leftist, if you can get Calvin to remember your name you are automatically famous
Interesting places that I have visited:
· Cornwall; I saw a production of Pirates of Penzance in Penzance
· Chicago; Dianna used to live there, so I spent all of the money that I should have spent on tuition, food and text books on near biweekly plane tickets
· Florida; last year’s National Service Learning Conference. I only bring it up because it is the only time I have been further east than Chicago
· Victoria, BC; Dianna and I drove there at 19 just to see the Murder City Devils.
Favorite book/movie: . :
Books:
My favorite books are Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, and Don Delillo’s White Noise, and to a lesser extent Underworld. That is not to discount my love of the work of David Sedaris, the Harry Potter series, Vonnegut, specifically Cats Cradle and Breakfast of Champions, the brilliant essays of Sarah Vowell, the 2 novellas of Steve Martin, and the unclassifiable work of Edward Gorey. Also I love a couple of things that I had to read for college like Gladwell’s The Tipping Point (READ THIS BOOK) and Susan Faludi’s two incalculably apt contributions to the discussion of gender, Backlash and Stiffed. But mostly I just watch movies.
Movies:
· The Graduate
· Rushmore
· Night of the living dead
· Batman Returns
· The Dark Half
· Fight Club
· Hedwig and the Angry Inch
· Leone’s “Dollars” Trilogy
· Ocean’s Eleven (the Sinatra flick, not the Clooney flick)
What motivates you: . love, fear, money, insecurity, terror of disappointing people, sex, rock ‘n roll, food, adrenaline, boredom, candy, desire to make parents proud, justice, good bourbon, bad movies, family, beauty, friends, the desperate, Ozymandian hope that I will leave something positive behind when I die, and an ambiguous sense of personal spirituality. I think it is similar to most peoples’ lists.
Something, quirky or unique: I write too much on “getting to know you” surveys. I try to merge “Honest” with “Clever” with the hope that people will read it and feel they know me and like me, but I usually come off as narcissistic.
Add your own question: If there's nothing out there, what was that noise?
Jody Burpee CX Program Assistant Washington Campus Compact
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