• Mark Monroe Selinger

• • Atavist
  • Male
  • U.S.

• Relationship Status: Single

WORK

• Oh, please ... let's skip the Bilge. [Writer; Actor; Anything, Anytime, Anywhere, Anyway I Damn well please ...]

EDUCATION

• Georgetown University [B.A. Philosophy / Kant; Magna; PBK; Football; Crew
• Vanderbilt University School of Law [under duress]
• Harry Mastrogeorge [Studio / Workshop -- Los Angeles] [Goodman -- Chicago]

INTERESTS

• Interests: Veritas [Eclectic]; The War; National Politics; American History; The Greeks; The Founding Fathers; Latin; The NFL
• Favorite Music: Beach Boys; Motown; Four Seasons; Righteous Brothers; "Blue-Eyed" Soul; "Early" Beatles; "Golden Oldies"; Rick Nelson; Sinatra; Sarah Vaughn [And oh, yes ... Lena Horne to offer those "stunning visuals"]
• Favorite Movies: Shane; Lilies of the Field; Three Came Home; Summer of '42; Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison; The Enemy Below; Guadalcanal Diary; Ace in the Hole; Lonely are the Brave; Hud; Seven Days in May; The Train; Breakfast at Tiffanys; West Side Story; My Fair Lady; In The Heat of the Night; The Ugly American; Fail Safe; Dr. Strangelove; Khartoum; Ben-Hur; Planet of the Apes [1968]; QB VII; Z; Love with the Proper Stranger; Bullitt; All Steve McQueen; Runaway Train; Inter Alia ... 
• Movies I Want to See: They don't make "Movies" any longer ... just Crap.
• Favorite Books: Animal Farm [Orwell]; Witness [Chambers]; Goodbye Darkness [Manchester]
• Books I Want to Read: Past and Present [Carlyle]; War & Peace [Tolstoy]; [Any & all Emerson I might lay hands to ... ]
• Favorite Quotes: "To Thine Own Self Be True" [Polonius]; "This Too Shall Pass" [Unknown]; "Endless Merit There Is In A Man's Knowing ...When To Have Done" [Carlyle]; "An Idea Whose Time Has Come Has More Power, More Force -- Than All The Armies Of The World" [Victor Hugo]; "All Animals Are Equal. But [well, nyet] Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others." [Major; Comrade Napoleon .. and the Pigs] This last in the obverse ... of course.
• Favorite Foods: Veal; Prime Dry-Aged Rib Eye; Any Top-Shelf Steak House; Escargot; All Animals with Fur; [Really, anything which enrages PETA, the ACLU, Planned Parenthood and that ENTIRE New York Times crowd.] That is -- so called "Activists" generally.
• Favorite Places: Arlington National Cemetery [on a cold Winter day]; Jefferson Memorial [after dark]; World War II Memorial [anytime]; U.S. Marine Corps Memorial [anytime]
• Places I Want to Visit: Chartwell [Kent, ENG]; Upottery [Devon, ENG]; Omaha / Utah Beach; Pointe du Hoc; Brecourt Manor; Caan; Carentan; Falaise Pocket; Bastogne; Foy; Huertgen Forest; Auschwitz - Birkenau; Anzio; Monte Cassino; Remagen; Nuremberg; Berlin; Pearl Harbor; Bataan / Corregidor [Malinta Tunnel]; Wake; Midway; Buna-Gona; Milne Bay [Papua New Guinea]; Guadalcanal / Tulagi; Bougainville; Cape Gloucester; Betio Is. [Tarawa Atoll -- Gilbert Group]; Saipan; Peleliu; Iwo Jima; Okinawa [Ryukyus]; Myitkyina [Burma]
•  Rendition [ad valorem]; I do love my Ka-Bar ... Semper Fi, Mac
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  Good Is Better Than Evil ...
  Because It's Nicer.
  
  -- Mammy Yokum [nee Pansy Hunks] [nee Al Capp]

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  Say What You Feel.
  Be As You Are.
  Those Who Mind ... Don't Matter.
  Those Who Matter ... Don't Mind.
  
  -- Dr. Seuss [nee Theodore Seuss Geisel]