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Q: Why didn't you get married? A: Because I'm impossible to live with. Q: Are you really a lawyer? A: Yes. My Indiana Supreme Court number is #1543-17. Q: Why aren't you in general practice? A: Because law is boring and law books are heavy and dusty. Q: You knew that before you went to law school, didn't you? A: Yes. Q: Then why did you? A: Did what? Q: Go to law school? A: Because everybody else I knew was, and because I didn't want to have to depend on somebody else to tell me what's in the books. Q: Why do you work in a grocery store? A: To pay my bills. Q: No, really, why? A: Like I said, to pay my bills; and the place has a good health plan. Besides, it's within walking distance of home. Q: Why don't you own a car? A: I can't afford one. Q: Somebody said you're rich. You aren't? A: No. But I have a lot of money tied up in cats. Q: What's with you and the cats, anyway? A: What do you mean? Q: Like, how come you have so many? A: Like, I like them. Besides, I'm soft-hearted. I told you that. Q: It still seems odd. A: I guess it does. Would you rather have a Mayor who throws rocks at them? Q: Hey, don't I get to ask the questions? A: All right, ask another one. Q: Do you like dogs? A: Yes. Q: And what's this thing you have with trees? A: What do you mean? Q: You're always harping on saving trees, planting trees. You even give trees to people. You're a treehugger. Why? A: I sunburn easily. I like shade. Q: Give me a straight answer, smartypants. A: Trees are beautiful. They outlive us. The idea of sending something beautiful down the stream of time to people we'll never know is very appealing. Planting a tree is like putting a message in a bottle. Q: You sound like Johnny Appleseed. A: It may be more than just coincidence. There's a remote possiblity that we're related on my mother's side. Q: No fooling? A: Just a possibility. Q: So you think people will vote for a tree-hugging cat-and-dog lover for mayor? A: Why not? Where's it written that a mayor has to sit around talking stock options with guys in red suspenders? Q: You still have to deal with people like that. Can you? A: Sure. That's why I've got the law degree. That's why I took economics in grad school. Q: What do you do for fun? A: I read. I read a lot. I also spend a lot of time on the Internet. And I listen to WBNI constantly. Q: What do you read about? A: History mostly. And science. About once a year I plunge into theology. Q: Any fiction? A: Science fiction. Historical fiction. Fantasy of the J.R.R. Tolkein sort. Q: And music? A: Duke Ellington said there are only two kinds of music: good and bad. I like the good stuff. Q: Could you be more specific? A: I love classical music. I can let a Beethoven symphony wash over me like a wave. I love the Celtic revival that's so popular just now. Enya. Loreena McKennitt. And Rennaissance dance music is a turn-on. Q: You're weird. How about country? A: I like Johnny Cash. I think that Roy Clark's Thank God and Greyhound You're Gone is a great American anthem. Q: You're kidding. A: No, I'm not. And I like Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard's Pancho and Lefty album. Q: Have you gone to any memorable concerts? A: I heard Aaron Copland conduct the National Symphony twice. Q: Is he your favorite composer? A: He's my favorite American composer. Back in college my roomate and I would put on Appalachian Spring, turn out the lights and just look down on the I.U. campus from our 11th-floor dorm room. Q: Is there some piece of music that particularly moves you? A: For some reason I find Lo, How a Rose Ere Blooming by the 17th-century composer Michael Praetorius absolutely heart-wounding. And Copland's music for the film version of Thorton Wilder's Our Town is so bittersweet that I can hardly describe it. I heard him conduct it. Q: This is getting too heavy. Who makes you laugh? A: Auburn's own Will Cuppy is the funniest writer America ever produced. He's a complete stitch. Q: What are the funniest things you've ever seen on film? A: 1)The destruction of the new gas station in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, 2)The exploding car scene in Planes, Trains and Automobiles, and 3) the Mary Tyler Moore Show episode about the untimely passing of "Chuckles the Clown." Q: An observation: you seem to like things that are funny and beautiful, right? A: Right. Q: Why? A: Life is funny and beautiful. I love it.  |
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