Catherwood

Location: North Seattle

Bio/Manifesto

Short answer: failed academic (with Ph.D. in biology), math tutor who's heading back to get a teaching certificate, expert baker, dart-thrower, one-time professional foosball player. Expert in all sorts of odd topics: coral reefs. Salmon biology. Cheese.

Seriously involved in Seattle public schools. Fighting the good fight.

More Than You Need to Know

This or That

• Punch Buggy or Slug Bug
• Bring It On or Stomp the Yard
• Cowgirls, Inc. or Pony
• Dan Savage or Charles Mudede
• Meridian or Film Forum
• No legs and a million dollars or A million legs and no dollars
• Vampire or Zombie
• Frank Gehry or Rem Koolhaas
• Dicks or Vaginas
• Too many teeth or No teeth at all
• Elliott Bay or Amazon
• Barsuk or Fantagraphics
• Pot or Coke
• Dina Martina or Jean Godden
• SF or LA
• Zune or Segway
• I hate living in Seattle or I wish I lived in Seattle
• Will in Seattle or Fnarf
• OTB or ACT
• Production or Devel
• Ivar Haglund or Jean Enerson
• Tushy or Tuchus
• Tom Skerritt or Dave Matthews

Questions

• What song do you want played at your funeral?: Helter Skelter (The Bobs)
• What song do you never want to hear again?: Anything by Jack Johnson
• What do you like to read when you poop?: The New Yorker
• What keeps you up at night?: Visions of my kids amid rising seas
• What helps you sleep?: Visualizing a round of golf
• What song or movie makes you cry?: Anything sappy: I'm so damn easy
• Where's your hairiest square inch?: Gotta be top of my head, but my asscrack is getting there
• If you could bring one dead person back to life, who would it be?: Molly Ivins
• What book have you read the most?: The Once and Future King
• What movie can you recite verbatim?: Princess Bride
• What piece of art would you steal?: Anything by Monet
• What's your biggest grammatical pet peeve?: "begs the question" - DOES NOT MEAN WHAT YOU THINK!

Fill in the Blank

• God is: Imaginary - or a real schmuck