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"I am lard, hear my gristle!" -- Russ Dale

I enjoy playing the harmonica, listening to music, gardening, following manned space flight, fishing, hanging out with friends, cooking, BBQing, spending time with family, writing and many other neat things. Things like what? Oh space, Mars, Moon, NASA, Apollo, Mercury, Gemini, Orion, ESA, comics, books, movies, scanning, reading, skipping, dancing, star gazing, astronomy, regression, lard, lubby, writing, comedy, youtube, video, acting, improv, geology, lunar geology, history, archaeoastronomy, writing, adventure, strolling, sitting in silence, telling jokes, smiling, sharing, leaping and being. Yes I said archaeoastronomy. Fear me.

I wouldn't mind becoming a space tourist one day. If I had a spare 20 million cash, I would go to the International Space Station to perform scientific experiments of my own design. RADhole is a showcase for my talent. Go Broncos. I also like photojournalism, telescopes, carbon nanotube composites, time travel, Guinness, Scotch, chick flicks, comedy, Jello, biscuits and gravy, sundresses, picnics, fishing, wine, garlic and grilled cheese.

I live in the Denver. I am alive. I roam. I am nice. I try to live life to the fullest, learning and experiencing new things almost daily. I am an adventurer. I want to go tubing. I am simple, in a sophisticated sorta way. Unfortunately I am a genius and most people do not understand hat and/or shun me. It makes me weep. Yes I weep. I admit it. Look away! I am boring. My powers are beyond most people's comprehensions. I am a Denver historian and space buff amateur rocket scientist. I am a gardener, a farmer in the city with an urban pumpkin patch. I'm quirky. I have opinions. I'm a laid back warrior. I'm a word crafter. I like mystery. I like 'Fantasia.' I like butter. I like rambling. I like burnt popcorn. I like the symphony. I like culture. I like glasses. I like taupe. I am a loner but not really. I speak German. I have a twin sister. I have a wicked crazy sense of humor in a dry sorta funny way. My ethnicity, for those who care: German, Swiss, English, Scottish, American.

I do like to travel, although I have never been out of the USA. I have seen the world's largest ball of twine roadside attraction and let me tell you, it is breathtaking.

Oh there is blessed musik! I have a ear for sound: U2, Derek and the Dominos, U2, Billy Gibson, Junkyardmen, Tori Amos, Tool, Sam Cooke, Johnny Cash, classical, Tuvan throat chants, The Ramayana Monkey Chant, U2, Genesis, Peter Gabriel, The Freddy Jones Band, Tenacious D, Toad the Wet Sproket, The Velvet Underground, TV on the Radio, Rhonda Vincent, Kenny Rogers, Julia Othmer, Skapegoat, Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons, Etta James, Better than Ezra, Jimmy Scott, Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton, Angelo Badalamenti, Deep Forest, Talib Kweli, Native American, jazz, blues, blues rock, LaTour, Fiona Apple, Radiohead, Tarantella, Bad Luck City, The Duhks, The Clicks, Railbenders, Björk, Sting, The Police, Luciano Pavarotti, Meatloaf, U2, Moby, No Doubt, Catchers, Atmosphere, Immortal Technique, Hank Williams, Enigma, Delerium, Felix Mendelssohn, Brenda Lee. Miles Davis. Bessie Smith. Thelonious Monk, pop, blue grass, swing, Techno/Trance, Rockabilly, Colorado Symphony and Grunting with Russ Master, my new band.

Television is the idiot box. I hate it. But, if forced too, I have spied a few shows in my day: Seinfeld, NASA TV, Mr. Wizard's World, Twin Peaks, MST3k, Police Squad, Rescue Me, The Sopranos, From the Earth to the Moon, Band of Brothers, Scrubs, The Simple Life, Arrested Development, Cavemen, Reaper and NASA TV.

Movies? Oh yes. There is Back to the Future, Bubba Hotep, Zapped!, Crumb, Ghost World, The Seventh Seal, Seven Samarui, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai, Dune, foreign films, some B-Movies, Apollo 13, October Sky and so many more.

I like directors David Lynch, Stanley Kubrick, Akira Kurosawa, Martin Scorsese, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Oliver Stone, Richard Donner, Steven Spielberg and Kevin Smith.

The written word. Yes, yes! Classics. English lit, American lit, books, words, Native American Studies. I read a lot. Some of my favorite books are: The Case for Mars by Robert Zubrin, Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond by Gene Kranz, The Unbroken Chain (Apogee Books Space Series) by pad leader Guenter Wendt, Flight: My Life in Mission Control by Christopher C. Kraft, Yeager : An Autobiography by Chuck Yeager, The Monuments of Mars: A City on the Edge of Forever (5th Edition) by Richard C. Hoagland, Mere Christianity by CS Lewis, space/astronomy books, My Life by Bill Clinton, The Quickening: Today's Trends, Tomorrow's World by Art Bell, Jennifer L. Osborne, Twixt Will and Will Not: The Dilemma of Measure for Measure by Carolyn Harper