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User:dabroots (447350) Paid User
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Name:dabroots
Location:Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Birthdate:1900-10-24
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Bio:I'm a native of Centralia, Illinois, a town of about fourteen thousand people, roughly sixty-five miles east of St. Louis, Missouri and 270 miles south of Chicago, Illinois. I've lived in several cities and states.* I became a resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on July 4, 2007 and began teaching at a university here in Fall 2007.

If you're at all interested, you can find me also at another site, one that's rather shallow but splashy. See http://www.myspace.com/dabroots

*Urbana and Champaign, Illinois; New Orleans, Louisiana; New York City, New York; Boston and Somerville, Massachusetts; Greensboro and Kernersville, North Carolina; Spencer and Bloomington, Indiana; Lawrenceville, New Jersey; Brooklyn and New York City (again) , New York; Centralia, Illinois (again, but only for eight months from April through December 28, 2006); and Lubbock, Texas from 12/29/06 until early on the morning of 7/4/07.

Place for me is the locus of desire. Places have influenced my life as much as, perhaps more than, people. I fall for (or into) places faster and less conditionally than I do for people.—Lucy Lippard, from The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society





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Memories:48 entries
Pictures:over 600 public
Interests:147: abandoned buildings, abandoned factories, adventuring, affection, american vernacular, andy warhol, angela carter, architecture, august wilson, barack obama, beer, being a dad, big cities, bob wills, book publishing, books, brain damage, brick streets, bridges, brooklyn, buckminster fuller, buddhism, c.k. williams, cemeteries, charles baxter, city streets, cocorosie, colleges, comfortable beds, country roads, david cronenberg, delicatessens, delis, denise mina, diners, dreams, driving, east village, eclipses, emiliano zapata, emma goldman, ernest tubb, eugene v. debs, ex-fundamentalists, faubourg marigny, friendship, fulfillment, full moons, funky bars, getting healthy, good showers, haruki murakami, hiking, hills, hotels, illinois, irish literature, irvine welsh, isaac bashevis singer, james joyce, jane swisshelm, janet frame, jewish literature, jimmie dale gilmore, joe ely, john cale, jonathan ames, judaism, kate atkinson, kathy acker, laura san giacomo, lenny bruce, lewis nordan, libertarian socialism, libraries, live music, lorrie moore, louisiana, love, lower east side, lucid dreaming, lucy grealy, magical realism, man ray, marc chagall, mary gaitskill, mike leigh, moonwatching, motels, mother jones, my son, neighborhoods, new orleans, new york city, nice eyes, noam chomsky, north carolina, old houses, oliver sacks, paul wellstone, pennsylvania, philip k. dick, photographs, photography, pigeons, pittsburgh, politics, public readings, red wine, richard russo, rivers, science, scottish literature, senator bernie sanders, sensuality, sharon olds, slate sidewalks, small towns, smart women, sourdough pretzels, southern illinois, southern literature, spooning, squirrel hill, st. louis, stacey earle, steve almond, sunlight, susan sontag, swissvale, talking to people, tattooed women, teaching, terence mckenna, thai food, trains, trees, unitarianism, universities, university of illinois, walker evans, walking, werner herzog, willie nelson, windows, writing, young marble giants
Schools:Centralia High School - Centralia, IL
Irving Grade School - Centralia, IL
Kaskaskia College - Centralia, IL
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Urbana, IL
University of North Carolina at Greensboro - Greensboro, NC
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