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42-year-old native of [[North Carolina]]; I've lived in [[Charlotte]], [[Boone]], [[Chapel Hill]] and [[Carrboro]].  Alongside varied sporadic Wikipedia contributions, I've contributed to a handful of other publications and several online sites, with cultural studies, music, film and literature as key areas of focus.

[[File:Lemon-citrus limon seedling.jpg|thumb|right|Lemon-citrus limon seedling]]
==Articles started:==
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'''Botany / Plants:'''<br>
''Citrus''
*[[Citrus halimii]]
*[[Citrus macrophylla]]
*[[Clymenia (plant)]]
*[[Shangjuan]]
*[[Triphasia brassii]]<br>

''Solanaceae''
*[[Solanum abutiloides]]
*[[Solanum candidum]]
*[[Solanum caripense]]
*[[Solanum pseudolulo]]
*[[Solanum repandum]]<br>

'''Film:'''<br>
Film, Individual<br>
*[[An Autumn Afternoon]]  ''Japan''
*[[Cruel Story Of Youth]]  ''Japan''
*[[Enjo]] ''Japan''
*[[Humanity and Paper Balloons]]  ''Japan''
*[[Jalsaghar]]  ''India'' (Bengali)
*[[Mahanagar]]  ''India'' (Bengali)
*[[Nayak (movie)|Nayak]]  ''India'' (Bengali)
*[[Parash Pathar]]  ''India'' (Bengali)
*[[The Crucified Lovers]] ''Japan''

''Film Criticism''<br> 
*[[Our Films, Their Films]] (Satyajit Ray)
*[[Tadao Sato]]

''Filmmakers''<br>
*[[Sadao Yamanaka]]  ''Japan''

'''Maps-Publishing:'''<br>
*[[Dolph Map Company]]
*[[Geographia Map Company]]

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'''Weather:'''
*[[1936 Cordele-Greensboro tornado outbreak]]
*[[1984 Carolinas tornado outbreak]]
*[[1993 Virginia tornado outbreak]]
*[[April 1924 tornado outbreak]]
*[[Enigma tornado outbreak]]
*[[Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. tornado outbreak of 2001]] 
*[[May 1989 tornado outbreak]]
*[[Midwest To Mid-Atlantic Tornado Outbreak]] 
*[[November 1992 tornado outbreak]]
*[[Raleigh Tornado]]
*[[Rye Cove, Virginia tornado outbreaks]]
*[[Southeastern tornado outbreak of April 1957]] 
*[[Windsor Locks, Connecticut Tornado]] 

'''Geography:'''
*[[Fairview, North Carolina (town)]]
*[[Garden Parkway]]
*[[I-85 Corridor]]
*[[North Carolina Research Campus]] 

'''Misc:'''
*[[North Carolina Gay & Lesbian Film Festival]]
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==Articles worked on:==
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'''Botany & Plants:'''
*[[Ichang papeda]]
*[[Papeda]]
*[[Psidium guajava]]
*[[Solanum cajanumense]]
*[[Solanum quitoense]]
*[[Solanum sessiliflorum]]
*[[Solanum sibundoyense]]
*[[Sudachi]]
*[[Yuzu]]

'''Film:'''

''Films''
*[[Aparajito]]
*[[Apu trilogy]]
*[[The Burmese Harp (film)|The Burmese Harp]]
*[[Charulata]]
*[[Death By Hanging]]
*[[Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne]]
*[[Kanchenjungha]]
*[[Meghe Dhaka Tara]] 
*[[Pather Panchali]]
*[[Queer Boys and Girls on the Shinkansen]]
*[[The World of Apu]]

''Filmmakers & Actors''
*[[Soumitra Chatterjee]]
*[[Ritwik Ghatak]]
*[[Kon Ichikawa]]
*[[Tatsuya Nakadai]]
*[[Nagisa Oshima]]
*[[Satyajit Ray]]
*[[Apichatpong Weerasethakul]]

''Film History''
*[[Auteur]]
*[[Cinema of Japan]]
*[[Cinéma vérité]]
*[[East Asian cinema]]
*[[List of Japanese language films]]
*[[Nuberu bagu]] (Japanese New Wave) - major rewrite

'''Religion:'''
*[[Buddhism in the United States]]

'''Ethnicity, Culture & Society:'''
*[[Culture of the Southern United States]]

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'''Geology:'''
*[[Laacher See]]

'''Geography:''' 
*[[Asheville]]
*[[Carrboro]]
*[[Chapel Hill]]
*[[Charlotte]]
*[[Charlotte metropolitan area]]
*[[Cherokee County, North Carolina|Cherokee County]]
*[[Gastonia, North Carolina|Gastonia]]
*[[Hendersonville, North Carolina|Hendersonville]]
*[[Kannapolis, North Carolina|Kannapolis]]
*[[Megalopolis (city type)]]
*[[The Upstate]]
*[[Piedmont Triad]] - major update
*[[Southeastern United States]]
*[[Southern United States]]
*[[The Triangle (North Carolina)]]
*[[Waynesville, North Carolina|Waynesville]]
*[[Wilmington, North Carolina|Wilmington]]

'''Literature:'''
*[[Sukumar Ray]]

'''Miscellany:'''
*[[Creative Class]]
*[[Exquisite corpse]]
*[[List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people]]

'''Music:'''
*[[Polvo]]
*[[Shugo Tokumaru]]

'''Weather:'''
*[[1993 North American storm complex]]
*[[Blizzard of 1996]]
*[[List of derecho events]]
*[[List of tornadoes and tornado outbreaks]]
*[[List of tornadoes striking downtown areas]] 
*[[Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1994]]
*[[Super Outbreak]]
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==Odds & Ends:==
===The Work===
Jobs held have inculded writing film & music reviews, purchasing for a music distribution company, varied levels of retail, editing for publication, multi-tasking in a food co-op, and touring bassist for a rock/punk band.  I began playing bass guitar when I was 17.  I am listed as a contributor to the ''Senses Of Cinema'' film journal; varied bits of my writing appear on several not-especially prestigious websites.<br>  

===The Hobbies===
*''Film''<br>
French, Italian, Iranian, Bengali, Chinese, Hong Kong, Japanese<br> 
*''Music''<br>
punk, post-punk, jazz, early fusion, 20th century classical, new wave, old-time, bluegrass, garage/psych, krautrock, classic rock, rock en Espanol, international garage, gamelan...On certain days I think Talking Heads and The Clash were perhaps, interchangeably, the greatest rock bands ever.<br>
*''Literature & Art''<br>
primarily, but not limited to Latin-American (20th century) literature, Chinese (classical) literature, Japanese (20th century) literature, Russian, the history and evolution of certain literary and arts movements (surrealism, the Harlem renaissance, beat literature, magic realism, dada, pop art)<br>
*''Meteorology''<br>
I'm a weather geek.  A long-term project is collecting and documenting the history of severe weather events (hurricanes, tornadoes, blizzards, ice storms) in the eastern U.S.<br>
*''Botany''<br>
Citrus, solanaceae, annonaceae are a few particulars.  I have container-cultivated [[lemon]], [[guava]], [[strawberry guava]], red guava, [[yuzu]], [[calamondin]], [[pacay]], and a few other things lurking about the apartment.

African-American history and civil rights, LGBT rights and issues, the 1960s, the 1970s social change & sociology, maps (I collect vintage street maps of American cities), Asian history, Buddhism, politics, nature and anthropology are but a few of many interests.<br>

===The Bio===
====family====
My extended family is to be found in New York, New Jersey, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Wisconsin, and California; various extended family members have lived - at some point - in [[Jamaica]], [[Lebanon]], [[Saudi Arabia]], [[The Philippines]], [[South Korea]], and a handful of other notable spots.  I love to travel though it doesn't happen nearly as often as I would like.<br>  
====travels====
Thus far, I've visited 17 states in the U.S., 86 of the 100 counties in North Carolina, and 4 other countries.  There are many, many places in the world I would love to see.<br>
====quirks====
I am a [[pisces]], [[Meyers-Briggs]] [[INTP]], and fall ''just'' below the [[Asperger syndrome|Aspergers]] clinical threshold.  I am a recent cancer survivor.

====cred====
In 1998, the [[PBS]] series [[P.O.V.]] aired the documentary ''Family Name'' (directed by New York-based filmmaker Macky Alston), which investigated in depth the family history and genealogy of both the black and white sides of my paternal family lineage.  I am a distant cousin to artists [[Romare Bearden]] and Charles Alston.  I was once a neighbor to an individual who played a key role in the American [[Civil rights movement]].

==Favorite Things==
===Books===
[[Jorge Luis Borges]]' ''[[Labyrinths]]''<br>
[[Vladimir Nabokov]]'s ''[[Pale Fire]]''<br>
[[Bohumil Hrabal]]'s ''I Served The King Of England''<br>
[[Peter Matthiessen]]'s ''The Snow Leopard''<br>
[[Don DeLillo]]'s ''[[White Noise]]''<br>
[[Pu Songling]]'s ''[[Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio]]''<br>
[[Han Shaogong]]'s ''[[A Dictionary of Maqiao]]''<br>
[[Julio Cortázar]]'s ''[[Hopscotch (Julio Cortázar novel)|Hopscotch]]''<br>
[[Felipe Alfau]]'s ''Locos: A Comedy of Gestures''<br>
[[Jun'ichirō Tanizaki]]'s [[Seven Japanese Tales]]

===Music===
[[Television (band)|Television]]'s ''[[Marquee Moon]]''<br>
[[Talking Heads]]' ''[[More Songs About Buildings and Food]]''<br>
[[Miles Davis]]' ''[[In A Silent Way]]''<br>
[[Pere Ubu (band)|Pere Ubu]]'s ''[[The Modern Dance]]''<br>
[[Pylon (band)|Pylon]]'s ''Hits''<br>
[[Eric Dolphy]]'s ''Stockholm Sessions''<br>
[[Mahavishnu Orchestra]]'s ''[[Birds of Fire]]''<br>
[[Al Green]]'s ''[[Greatest Hits (Al Green album)|Greatest Hits]]''<br>
[[The Velvet Underground]]'s ''[[V.U.]]''<br>
[[The Clash]]'s ''[[London Calling]]''

===Films===
[[Sansho the Bailiff]]<br>
[[Aparajito]]<br>
[[Sunset Boulevard (film)|Sunset Boulevard]]<br>
[[Charulata]]<br>
[[Cleo from 5 to 7]]<br>
[[A Touch of Zen]]<br>
[[Ugetsu]]<br>
[[Being There]]<br>
[[L'Avventura]]<br>
[[Mysterious Object at Noon]]

==The Geek Part Of The Page==
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==Consumption:  Edibles, Not Tuberculosis==
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--[[User:Davidals|Davidals]] ([[User talk:Davidals|talk]]) 07:49, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

==The Evening Has Been Proclaimed A Hootenanny==
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