Kenneth Wolman

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Location

Bristol, Pennsylvania, US

Birthday

February 23

Title

Front parlor piano player

Company

Mamie's Cathouse

Bio

I am 66 (oh shit), straight, divorced, an Episcopal convert from Judaism, and I've had a collection of experiences that have left me intensely grateful that I'm still breathing at the same time I'm angry at some things that have come at me from outside. Angry. Somehow, it's supposed to be a bad thing if you're described as "angry." I guess I'm doing a bad thing, then, one among many. I've seen a bumper sticker that reads, "If you're not outraged you're not paying attention," and I absolutely subscribe. People get upset, justifiably, over wars, international politics, the local legislative swamps in our backyard. But I'm not sure how many people are willing to take on and unearth the misery that too often infects daily life. If I have a mission (God, how pretentious!), that might be it. Unfortunately the life I know best is my own. So what you get from that grandfatherly looking old sonofabitch in the avatar is what I sincerely hope is directed anger, exposure of the daily pain of living in a world we can't really fix, and how we use the tools open to us--including writing--to cope with the unacceptable and, when possible, "man up" and risk telling the truth even to power. Of course, that insures that the prospective bosses who read here to prescreen me will never even call me in, right?