What I do for fun:

Kayak, scuba, run marathons, swing dance, read, write, play guitar and mandolin, trade Northwest Coast art, and raise pygmy goats, cats, and hell.

What I do for money:

Write technical documents and marketing copy.

Last kayak adventure:

Kayaking Cape Flattery, the northwestern-most point of the state. Flattery will get you nowhere.

Paddling

Last mountain adventure:

Climbing Mt. Rainier.

Climbing

What the hell is a pygmy goat?

Click to find out.

Favorite recent books:

• Can't Be Satisfied: The Life and Times of Muddy Waters by Robert Gordon

• Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond

• Looking at Indian Art of the Northwest Coast by Hilary Stewart

• The Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond

• The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan

• Next of Kin: What Chimpanzees Have Taught Me About Who We Are by Roger Fouts

• The World Don't Owe Me Nothing by David "Honeyboy" Edwards

• The Eyes of Chief Seattle by the Suquamish Museum staff

• Watertrail: The Hidden Path Through Puget Sound by Joel Rogers

• The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger

• Downsize This by Michael Moore

Recently learned songs:

With RoadKill band

• Harlan Man by Steve Earle

• Tears of Rage by Bob Dylan and Richard Manuel

• Mingus Eyes by Richard Thompson

Some other pix:

With my little buddy Ryan

With my brother Tom

Book I'm writing:

The first biography of Howlin' Wolf, famous bluesman of Chicago and the Mississippi Delta. He started his career playing with Charley Patton and Robert Johnson, and ended it playing with Eric Clapton and the Rolling Stones. For most of his life, he was the main musical rival of Muddy Waters. He's the link between the first Mississippi bluesman and grunge.

Howlin' Who?

Click to read about the Wolf.

Art I love:

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