Biography: Dana Shields

I am a father to a wonderful son, Brendan, of whom I am so proud. I'm a husband to Jann who's my bliss cookie. Originally from the shoe mill town of Auburn, New York, on the Genesee River, and the home of such greats as Harriet Tubman, William Seward, Abner Doubleday, and world renown accordionist, Frank Mucedola, I have lived variously in New Hampshire, New Mexico, Colorado, Sarasota Florida, Suffolk, England, and Northhamptonshire, England; I currently reside in a wildlife sanctuary north of Atlanta, Mountain Park, Georgia (there isn't a decent accordionist in the whole of Georgia). I'm a proponent of the cultivation of algae biofuels, the deployment of windfarms, and the proffering of self-congratulatory hugs as a Strategic Defense Initiative against the tyranny of glumliness. It's possible that the ONLY human qualities that will help us stave off our current global finance disaster will be unceasing silliness, rowdy muzak, and super comfortable footware. ------------------------------------- Favorite Movie: Cold Comfort Farm or maybe Mind the Gap; Worst Movie: The Secret; Favorite Novel: Henderson the Rain King, by Saul Bellow; Favorite Poem: When Kingfishers Catch Fire, by Gerard Manley Hopkins; Favorite Old Time Revival Singer: Krishna Das (and I do mean Praise the Lord); Favorite Dog: both of them. Favorite Instructional Manual: Girl Mark's Biodiesel Homebrew Guide Favorite Hobbies: converting diesels to run on waste veggie oil; growing herloom tomatoes, p2p microlending on Kiva.org Favorite Quote: "The plants talked to me and told me they crave water." from the movie, Idiocracy; Currently Reading: The Known World, a compelling novel about a black slave owner in Virginia. Also reading Alex de Tocqueville's Democracy in America, a classic so good that it ought to be banned or burned.