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Created on 2002-01-22 21:21:13 (#447350), last updated 2009-07-10
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Basic Info| Name: | dabroots |
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| Location: | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States |
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dabroots@livejournal.com BioI live in Swissvale, Pennsylvania, a community of 9000 people that's right-smack up against Pittsburgh, with ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
joethecat. Centralia, Illinois is my birthplace, a community of 14,000 that's 270 miles south of Chicago and 70 miles east of St. Louis. Although I'm no longer married, I have a son, aged thirteen, who lives not far away with his mom and I see him quite regularly. For a living, I teach English at a university in downtown Pittsburgh. I do some writing, most of it here in Live Journal. I also take pictures, some of which occasionally appear here. I've lived in many cities*.
I've uploaded images of various sorts into my Live Journal Scrapbook: here and then click in the upper right-hand corner for "next page" to see more. If you see a blank square on scrapbook page but it has a number listed under it, go ahead and click, because there should be at least one image there. Some of the images are photos I've taken, some are scans of objects that I've uploaded, some are photos I've taken of artwork by other people, some are photos and images that I've uploaded from various websites.
*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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joethecat. Centralia, Illinois is my birthplace, a community of 14,000 that's 270 miles south of Chicago and 70 miles east of St. Louis. Although I'm no longer married, I have a son, aged thirteen, who lives not far away with his mom and I see him quite regularly. For a living, I teach English at a university in downtown Pittsburgh. I do some writing, most of it here in Live Journal. I also take pictures, some of which occasionally appear here. I've lived in many cities*. I've uploaded images of various sorts into my Live Journal Scrapbook: here and then click in the upper right-hand corner for "next page" to see more. If you see a blank square on scrapbook page but it has a number listed under it, go ahead and click, because there should be at least one image there. Some of the images are photos I've taken, some are scans of objects that I've uploaded, some are photos I've taken of artwork by other people, some are photos and images that I've uploaded from various websites.
*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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Centralia High School - Centralia, ILIrving 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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