h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

You asked elsewhere about my film and tv experience.
I grew up in radio stations and enjoyed a modest career
as a broadcaster, actor, writer and producer in all media
until finally giving it all up a few years ago.

Here's my IMDb page.
It's an incomplete sketch not of my own making.
It shows nothing of my career before 1990 (when Halifax became
a major production centre for US and UK films) and it ends a few
years ago when I retired.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0298481/

Cheers,
~jwf~

PS: I must confess to being curious about references
you've made about touring Europe in a musical capacity.

I don't deserve even the coal. I realized, just after making that post, that I was a fool to do so.

As for the musical trips to Europe, I sing with a local choral society centered in Dedham, Massachusetts. We went on a concert tour of Central Europe (Prague, Vienna, and Istanbul) in 2004, and another tour of Rome, Perugia, and Florence/Lucca in 2007. We were hoping to sing in Scotland and Northern Ireland in 2011, but the rotten economy has killed any chance of that. Too many of our members are without jobs, and can't afford expensive trips.

Anyway, for a brief moment I thought you might be James Franco, who played Spiderman's best friend. It wasn't until I really thought about it that I realized the actual James Franco barely has time to breathe these days, and would not be likely to have time for posting on H2G2.

I note that you were in a movie about Martha Stewart. Martha was just named to Time Magazine's list of most powerful women of the last century.

I guess I must be fascinated with people of multiple talents. Polymaths. Maybe this is a function of having lived in a century when so many adults are forced to focus on small tasks on assembly lines. There is always this voice screaming inside your head, saying, "I am capable of doing many many different things well, so why am I trapped like this?" We read about people like Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, who weren't pigeonholed. Even our own ancestors in colonial America or Canada had to be versatile. There was wood to cut, candles to make (and keep lit), wild game to hunt and prepare for the table, bread to bake, often crops to raise. Failing at these tasks bad results, as there were no supermarkets with packaged food/snacks, no electric company, etc. However, communities might turn out to help a neighbor raise a barn.

>> I don't deserve even the coal. <<

Nonsense. You have long struck me as one of the few
at h2g2 who has the moxy to speak their mind. Time
and again I have seen you fearlessly asking questions
that most people would just choke on in some misguided
sense of propriety. You are not afraid to ask questions
and most of all you are not afraid to admit you don't
know when you don't know. Most people are more scared
of being seen as stupid or uniformed than they are of
remaining in a state of frustrated curiosity and ignorance.
You can only learn new stuff by asking questions and I
admire your curious mind. Now shut up and eat your coal
before it gets hot.

~jwf~

Thanks, my friend!

Asking the silly questions is the way to learn, I have found.
Now, if only I didn't have this blasted sense of curiosity!