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About bionicbanana
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gary hoag
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bionicbanana
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Location:
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Toronto, Ontario Canada
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Member Since:
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Nov 27 '03
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Favorite Websites:
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internet movie database
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indie talk
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Ex-hippie, advocate, photographer, writer, painter, renaissance-man wanabe - resident of world's most multi-lingual metropolis.
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Activity Summary
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Reviews Written: 24
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Member Visits: 594
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Total Visits: 12,826
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About bionicbanana
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I would say that I have a fairly youthful outlook and have not been unnecessarily burdened by my time on the planet. I am definitely not jaded or cynical. I am still hopeful and am quite adventurous by nature. I guess that I still have a certain joie de vivre.
I am also a non-smoker and am relatively fit and am in generally good health. I lead a fairly active lifestyle. I play golf, though not as much as I used to. I also walk and hike a lot, and ride my bike quite a bit during the summer. I am also learning to roller-blade. I also do some cross-country skiing, though not too much lately. I have a ski machine and free weights at home.
I also possess a very quirky and absurdist sense of humour. I'm also relatively witty (but,I don't always think of the bon mot at the right time!). I love to speak publicly and have done a lot of that over the years - in particular for my work. I like board games such as Scrabble and Trivial Pursuits - but I'm not a game player per se. I know how to play but one card game.
I have fairly urbane tastes for cinema, live theatre, art galleries, and other such things. I have a fairly extensive art collection of my own, and am a very creative person myself. I own an extensive collection of books and music, as well. I'm also an avid reader and subscribe to numerous periodicals - mainly on art, design and architecture. I've written one novel, and had one screenplay produced. I've also published poetry, and other journalism, over the years. I've also started a couple more screenplays, and a novel - which I work on from time to time. I tend to do creative things like this both serially and sporadically.
I have also exhibited and sold my photography numerous times. I was invited by the jury to exhibit my work in 2002 at the international art fair at Toronto city hall. Since then, I've also produced fairly large-scale paintings of my photographs. I've completed an even dozen of them - and am enjoying this immensely! I am trying to find some place to exhibit my work. I've also started studying jazz trumpet and am progressing well with that too.
I'm keenly interested in design and architecture and have designed and renovated three homes - one of which I now live in. It's a duplex, which I bought six years ago - when I separated in 1997. I am also an accomplished amateur gourmet chef, and I enjoy cooking very much. My greatest ambition is still, one fine day, to be able to call myself a true renaissance man.
By day, I am public servant, and I've worked for the province since I finished graduate school in 1979. I am employed as an advocate for injured workers, in respect of their WCB claims. Essentially, I do the work of a lawyer, although I am a criminologist by training. I like my work, since it is interesting, very challenging and often
rewarding.
I am actually American by birth, and came to Canada in the early 1970s because of the war in Vietnam. I applied twice for conscientious objector status - but this failed. I have dual citizenship. I could legally return to live in the states - but, prefer living in Canada. George Bush Sr. could have been describing Canada, when he once mused about "a kinder and gentler America". This is why I stay. As well, the UN has confirmed that Toronto is the most multi-lingual and ethnically diverse city on the planet. There are apparently 170 different languages spoken here. Pluralism rocks! I lived in Montreal before that - where I did my undergraduate work, and before that I spent my first year in Canada up in frigid Labrador - working on a large construction project.
I have also traveled extensively - but have never left North America. I've visited all but one of the states, all of the provinces, plus one territory. I also lived in and traveled all over Mexico in the late 1960s - having visited 24 of the 26 Mexican states. I dipped briefly into Central America, as well. Quite a lot of the traveling I've noted was done by motorcycle. I don't own one now - but have a new Chevy Malibu, which I've reviewed for epinions.
In case anybody who reads this far is interested - the picture of me on the site, is from 1973, near the end of my "ex-hippie" days!
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