JOSEPH WALDMAN'S WEBSITE
I'm Joe Waldman, twenty-nine years old and resident in Southfield, MI; born in Downers Grove, IL and raised in Lisle, IL; Oak Park, MI; and Southfield, MI. I attended Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, OH, from which I was graduated (cum laude) with a major in history and minors in English and politics in 2002, and where I served as Senior Editorial Assistant for and Webmaster of the Book Review Section of The Historian.
You can find my CV here, and a collection of my writings here.
I am active in practical Democratic politics, a.k.a. Liberty Democracy, and as such am an Obamanaut. Yes We could, Yes We Did, and Yes We Can, etc., etc., etc. You know how it goes. Now comes the hard work.
Fave raves:Areas of historical interest include various aspects of AngloJudeoAfricanAmericana (more to come).
Givers of wisdom: Douglas Adams, Isaac Asimov, Avatar Meher Baba, Dan Aykroyd, Lester Bangs, Dave Barry, William Jennings Bryan, Winston Churchill, George Clinton, Ann Coulter, Aleister Crowley, Roald Dahl, Jim DeRogatis, Diogenes the Cynic, Benjamin Disraeli, Arthur Conan Doyle, Eric Idle (whose mind is anything but), Kinky Friedman, my cousin Allen Ginsberg, Danny Goldberg, Edward Gorey, Vaclav Havel, Alfred Hitchcock, Harry Houdini, Christopher Hitchens, S.E. Hinton, Thomas Jefferson, Ken Kesey, Martin Luther King, Jnr., Stanley Kubrick, John Lennon, Abraham Lincoln, H.P. Lovecraft, Rachel Maddow, Greil Marcus, Dave Marsh, Groucho Marx, Karl Marx, St. Brian of May, St. Freddie of Mercury, Friedrich Nietzsche, Peggy Noonan, Qoheleth, Richard O'Brien, P.J. O'Rourke, George Orwell, Jimmy Page, Camille Paglia, Sam Phillips, Plutarch, Edgar Allan Poe, Elvis Presley, Thomas Pynchon, St. Joey of Ramone, Ayn Rand, Franklin Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Carl Sandburg, Shel Silverstein, Homer J. Simpson (the "J" stands for "Jay"), Joseph Stalin, Michael Stipe, Andrew Sullivan, Hunter S. Thompson, Henry David Thoreau, St. Peter of Townshend, The Waco Kid, Henry Wallace, Andy Warhol, St. Paul of Westerburg, Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, Dr. Karol J�zef Wojtya, and Frank Zappa.
Cinema: Almost Famous, American Beauty, AI: Artificial Intelligence, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Explorers, Ghostbusters, The Great Escape, O Brother! Where Art Thou?, The Producers, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Shrek, Stripes, Superman, Titanic, Tommy, Uncle Buck, UHF, What About Bob? and The Wizard of Oz.
Teevee: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Futurama, The Greatest American Hero, Jeopardy!, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, The Monkees, The Muppet Show, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Saturday Night Live, The Simpsons, South Park, and Whose Line Is It, Anyway?
Journals: CREEM, The Forward, The Huffington Post, Salon, Slate, Teenage Wasteland Gazette, and The Historian.
Essays: Where Were You When Elvis Died? and Thinking The Unthinkable About John Lennon by Lester Bangs; and Thinking The Unthinkable About John Lennon by Lester Bangs; Just For Being Americans by Dave Barry; "The Worst Generation" by Paul Begala; Appetite for Destruction and ZoSo by Chuck Eddy; A Biological Homage To Mickey Mouse by Stephen Jay Gould; All Things Must Pass by Richard Lacayo; The Realest Show on TV by Peggy Noonan; God Angrily Clarifies 'Don't Kill' Rule by The Onion; Why I'm Not Afraid Of The Dark by P.J. O'Rourke; He Was a Crook by Hunter S. Thompson; POPism by Andy Warhol.
Artists: the Beatles, Black Max, the Bloodhound Gang, the Byrds, Fr�d�ric Chopin, the Dictators, the Doobie Brothers, Eminem, Funkadelic, the aforementioned Kinky Friedman, George Gershwin, the Grateful Dead, the Guess Who, Guns N' Roses, Richard Hell, Jethro Tull, Led Zeppelin, the Monkees, the New York Dolls, Parliament/Funkadelic, Pink Floyd, The Plastic People of The Universe, Queen, The Ramones, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, R.E.M., The Replacements, Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers, Lou Reed, the Rolling Stones, the Sex Pistols, Stone Temple Pilots, U2, the Velvet Underground, and the Who; and I have a special interest in the history of rock in Detroit.
Friends, fiends and family: Omar Bilal Akhtar, Laura Baumgras, Marcie Delia, Mike Flamm, Julia Geiger, Rabbi Niles Goldstein, Tracie Hall, Diana Hilton, Megan Horn, Ed Krass, Christine Kryscio, David Lorch, Sarah Monje, Caroline Orloff, Katie Orloff, Corin Reade, The Sandwich Repairman, Sherri Page, Thaddeus Russell, Josh Siegel, Richard F. Spall, Jnr., Joseph Tremblay (the Canuck), Mariah Turner, Uncle Louie Stuart, Jaan Uhelszki, Julia Waldman, Dr. Marvin Waldman, Cynthia Wambsgans, and Susan Whitall. Let me know if you've got one for me to add.
An obituary for Hunter S. Thompson.
All The Way To Memphis: A Rock and Roll Odyssey!
Questions, comments, suggestions? E-mail me. I update when prompted.
Copyright � 1998-2009, Joseph Waldman
Last update: Saturday 24 October 2009, 08:49PM(EST)
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