Bio Matter

ALWAYS UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Really, how many people are significant enough to rate a biography? Even A&E's "Biography" was reduced to doing a show on Peter Graves ("I'm Peter Graves, for 'Biography'. Tonight - Peter Graves.") Being particularly insignificant, I'll just hit the bullet points...

David Schipani. Born and raised in Buffalo, NY, now living in Maine. BA in English and psychology, SUNY/Buffalo. Taurus. Small-L libertarian.

LIKES:

• motorcycling (click here for my bike page)
• NFL football, NCAA hockey
• Buffalo Bills, Buffalo Sabres, Boston Red Sox, Maine Black Bears
• George Will, Camille Paglia, John Leo
• Reason magazine
• American history
• David Hackett Fischer, John Keegan
• The Onion
• Guinness Stout, Shipyard Old Thumper ESB, Gritty's Longfellow Ale
• karma
• civil engineers
• Last of the Mohicans (the movie), The Outlaw Josey Wales, Them!, Raising Arizona
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Farscape, Brimstone, The Simpsons, The Twilight Zone
• Alice in Chains, Liz Phair, Goo Goo Dolls, the Clash
• classical
• Jane Austen (as a guy it kills me to admit that), Mark Twain
• Arts & Letters Daily

DISLIKES:

• RUBs and trailer queens
• soccer, anything "Xtreme"
• Miami Dolphins, New York Yankees
• Ellen Goodman, Ellen Goodman, Ellen Goodman
• the irredeemably biased mass media
• American history as taught in American universities
• Francis Jennings, Howard Zinn
• websites with dancing babies/Presidents/cats/whatever
• Bud, Coors, Miller
• dogma
• lawyers
• Bulworth, Dances with Wolves, any movie with a lawyer as a hero
• Star Trek: Voyager, reality TV, WWF anything, MTV
• Kid Rock, Rage Against the Machine, Bob Seger, Billy Joel
• country and/or western
• Charles Dickens, James Fenimore Cooper
• self-indulgent personal Web pages

FAVORITE PLACES:

• Sebago Lake State Park, Maine
• Fort Niagara, NY
• the bicycle path along the Niagara River between Fort Erie and Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario

HEROES:

Ulysses S. Grant; George Orwell.

MOST SIGNIFICANT RECENT PERSONAL ACHIEVEMENT:

...determining that mustard and vinegar are the missing ingredients that keep pathetically bland Maine-style potato salad from being as tasty as Buffalo-style potato salad. Now when I'm having dinner with the in-laws, and my mother-in-law isn't looking, I just stir some in on my plate. Mmmmmmmm, tasty.

DREAM JOBS:

• third-string NFL quarterback
• omnipotent diety

July, 1987. Headed home after a weekend at my buddy George Richert's cabin in Springville, NY.
That's my first bike, a 1982 Yamaha Maxim 400.

My other pages: Y2K B6 • Gray Matter