piddlingpete's WEbook Profile

piddlingpete

Join Date: 6/17/2009

About me:
The difference between me and an idiot savant, is that I'm not a savant.
Interests - Music - Football - Documentaries - Reading - Mountaineering in Holland - Scuba-Diving in Egypt - All-in Wrestling - All-out Wrestling - Fly Fishing (although I haven't caught a single fly yet!) - Etch-a-Sketch - Self-Harming (Wednesdays) - Story Writing
Favourite films - 7even - The Number 23 - 8mm - Jim Carrey - Shane Meadows - Mississippi Burning - The Shawshank Redemption - Debbie Does Dallas - Rocky XXV - Team America - Herbie Rides Debbie, but not in Dallas
Favourite TV - The Sopranos - Dispatches - Gillette Soccer Saturday - QI - Discovery Documentaries - Songs of Praise (Unplugged) - The Magic Roundabout (The Dylan Years) - River Cottage - Location, Location, Location, Location, Location, Location, Location, Location, Location, Location
Favourite quote -
Modern man,
though well-behaved,
At best is but a monkey shaved.
My claim to fame: I once helped an old lady cross the road, I say road, it was a motorway, but she was only struck a glancing blow. Hip replacements are two-a-penny these days anyway.

What I like to read:

Fiction: Crime, Historical Fiction, Humor/Satire, Literary, Mystery, Short Story

Non-Fiction: History, Home & Garden, Humor, Memoir/Narrative Non-fiction, Outdoors & Nature, Reference, Science, True Crime
Favorite books:
Autobiographies - True Crime - Reader's Wives (that's more of a magazine than a book) - Reader's Laundry (this is really dirty!) - The 1973 Bunty Annual - Readers kids (but don't tell everyone!).
What I'm reading now:
This! If I said otherwise, I'd be lying.
Favorite place to read:
In bed, in the Cayman Islands, at a guess.
My other writing:
Works' in progress
What I like to write:

Fiction: Literary, Short Story
Character I'd like to be for a day:
The man from Del Monte, just so I could say, 'F**k off!'
Favorite authors:
Richard Dawkins - Michael Moore- Lawrence Block - Mark Billingham