Brian LaBonte's Profile

I am interested in Penn State grad,former reporter (three-time Keystone Press Award winner),former political appointee,currently attending Kutztown University to secure a teaching certificate (English,grades 7-12),guitar player,voracious learner (currently teaching myself calculus,statistics,game theory,and the C# programming language just because I find them beautiful to look at,interesting,and useful).. My favorite music are Heavy metal (all genres),classic rock,old-school country,classical,funk,hip-hop,soul,R&B,jazz,and blues. Movies: 12 O'Clock High,Casablanca,The Searchers,Fistful of Dollars,For a Few Dollars More,The Good,the Bad,and the Ugly,The Outlaw Josey Wales.. TV: Miami Vice,The Rockford Files,ESPN's Baseball Tonight,House,Burn Notice,Rescue Me,MythBusters.. Books: Anything by Philip K. Dick,Mickey Spillane,the British Romantic-era writers,the British Modernists,the British World War I poets,the American Lost Generation,Edgar Allan Poe,James Thurber,Jonathan Swift,Dom Delillo,Christopher Buckley,James Ellroy,Elmore Leonard,Fyodor Dostoyevsky,Robert Ludlum,Raymond Chandler,and David Halberstam. Specific books not covered by the above authors include "The Complete Sherlock Holmes," by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,"Papillon" by Henri Charriere,"The Glory of Their Times" by Lawrence S. Ritter,"Beowulf," "Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes," by Jacques Ellul,"Catch-22," by Joseph Heller,and "The Woman in White," by Wilkie Collins.. My Heros are Alexander the Great,Gen. George S. Patton Jr.,Ernie Pyle,Edward R. Murrow,PFC Milton L. Olive III,and Brig. Gen. Charles E. ("Chuck") Yeager..

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