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You may have been asking yourself, "Who's this guy who creates such an amazing website?"
Good question, so here's some confidential information...


... about me

Bryce Canyon, 1988
Bryce Canyon, Utah, 1988
(well-disguised, but also looking somewhat dumbfounded because it had just dawned on me
that this was definitely "a helluva place to lose a cow")


Name

Bernd Wahlbrinck

Born

1951
(Yes - amazing coincidence there, what with CR being written in the same year...)

 
Occupation

English teacher
(good grief!)

Residence

Germany, Home of the Wadel

 
 Hobbies

the English language
playing the guitar
(see below)

Pool Billard
not correcting papers
homerecording
visiting Cornwall
this-here website
not correcting any papers at all

 
What I Like: Good Reading

Edward Abbey
Tony Hillerman's Navajo Mysteries

Charles Schulz: Peanuts
Bill Bryson: 
The Lost Continent

Salinger
Paul Theroux:
Mosquito Coast

John Steinbeck
John Grisham
Stanislaw Lem
Sherman Alexie
John Nichols:
Milagro Beanfield War
Ken Kesey:
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
James Dickey:
Deliverance
Tom Wolfe:
Bonfire of the Vanities
David Lodge:
Changing Places
Stephen King:
Shawshank Redemption
(aka) Richard Bachman:
Roadwork
Angela's Ashes
Jon Krakauer
The Bounty Trilogy
Four Hours in My Lai
Books by/about Ernest Shackleton

What I Like: Good Music

Tom Petty
(early) Genesis
Beatles
Small Faces
Kinks
Who
BAP
Beach Boys
Dire Straits
Monkees
Traveling Wilburys
Byrds
Pinkfloyd
CCR
Ben Jamieson
No Concept

What I Like: Good Movies

The Englishman who went up a Hill but came down a Mountain
Waking Ned Devine
Rabbit-Proof Fence
Fish called Wanda
Witness

Dead Poets Society
Disorganized Crime (one of the funniest and most underestimated films ever made)
The Graduate
Night on Earth (N.Y. episode)
Once upon a Time in the West
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest Dead Parrot Sketch (Monty Python)
Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
American Graffiti
The Rutles
Cal
O Brother Where Art Thou?
Notting Hill

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playing the guitar...

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A Wadel

Lookit - a wadel!

Thanks to Suzanne Morine 
for reproducing such a rare fleeting creature

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Hold it!  

Why not take a trip to my other sites... 

TEACHING ENGLISH:
WORKSHEETS, CLASS TESTS,  & MORE
 
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My new book:
NICHT ZU FASSEN:
36 REZENSIONEN VON BUECHERN DIE NIE GESCHRIEBEN WURDEN

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BERNIE'S SHOP: RARE BOOKS VIDEOS DVD CDs VINYL etc

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