Whose biography would you like to read? / LJWorld.com

Asked at Massachusetts Street on September 17, 2007

“I would like to read the biography of Les Stroud, the guy who does the ‘Survivorman’ TV show. I want to know where he learned all the stuff he does in the show.”

— Jason Williams, firefighter, Lawrence

“She’s an old-school gardener who grew all of her own food and raised all her own livestock to take care of her family. She also wrote and illustrated children’s books. She’s just a really neat older lady.”

— Julie Glazer, homemaker, Lawrence

“That’s easy. Teddy Roosevelt. He’s pure bravery. He led a brigade during the Spanish-American War without even being in the military. That’s like a state senator volunteering to go command a unit in Iraq.”

— Scott Laurie, investor, Boulder, Colo.

“Maybe Shakespeare, because there’s so much mystery surrounding him.”

— Whitney Erikson, Kansas University senior, Hutchinson

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"She's an old-school gardener who grew all of her own food and raised all her own livestock to take care of her family. She also wrote and illustrated children's books. She's just a really neat older lady." - Julie Glazer, homemaker, Lawrence

So, errr. . . . who is she?

RETICENT_IRREVERENT 5 years, 8 months ago

But, John Galt's, maybe Ron Paul's...

RETICENT_IRREVERENT 5 years, 8 months ago

Not mine...

Crossfire 5 years, 8 months ago

Lemmy on bass... & Wendy O. Williams.

labmonkey 5 years, 8 months ago

Scott should check out the two books by Edmund Morris (I am eagerly awaiting the third TR bio from him). I usually read what catches my eye in Borders. My next biography will probably be "Dutch" by Edmund Morris since I liked the two TR books by him.

coolmom 5 years, 8 months ago

john wayne

tangential_reasoners_anonymous 5 years, 8 months ago

Jesus, of Nazareth... but ONLY if it's the AUTObiography (-an eBook would be nice).

magnus 5 years, 8 months ago

not so 'coolmom', John Wayne was a racist pig! Why in the world would you want to know more about him?

avaholic 5 years, 8 months ago

Rivers Cuomo. Seriously Rivers...what happened?

JJE007 5 years, 8 months ago

I like to read my own. I can't remember much of what's happened. Maybe nothing happened? The End.

chewyfally 5 years, 8 months ago

I would like to read my grandparents'. There is a lot I'd like to know about their past, and I think they were just fascinating people. They died before I could ask them a lot of the questions I wanted to ask.

snap_pop_no_crackle 5 years, 8 months ago

Boris Badenov! I'd like to know why he hates moose & squirrel.

kneejerkreaction 5 years, 8 months ago

my own, titled, "How I Became Rich".

magnus 5 years, 8 months ago

blue73harley (and coolmom) Actually, I did some additional reading about John Wayne before I made that post. From my perspective what he said in his 1971 Playboy interview alone makes him a racist, plain and simple (see below). But he is reported to have made many racist comments throughout his life, despite the fact that he was married to three Hispanic women. And you're actually going to tout his Congressional Gold Medal for being an actor and a 'real American"? What a joke!

From John Wayne's entry on Wikipedia: In an interview with Playboy magazine in May 1971, Wayne made infamous remarks. One disclaimed a personal sense of guilt for the historical treatment of Native Americans, the second claimed that African-Americans had been denied educational opportunities and resented that fact, "possibly rightfully so." He went on to say that did not justify turning over the country "to the leadership of the blacks. I believe in white supremacy until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility. I don't believe in giving authority and positions of leadership and judgment to irresponsible people."[19]

bluerose 5 years, 8 months ago

"She's an old-school gardener who grew all of her own food and raised all her own livestock to take care of her family. She also wrote and illustrated children's books. She's just a really neat older lady." - Julie Glazer, homemaker, Lawrence

So, errr: . who is she?

i think she may be speaking of Tasha Tudor. yes, very neat older lady!

lildos 5 years, 8 months ago

Bill Brasky

"He hated Mexicans! And he was half-Mexican! ...And he hated irony!"

erod0723 5 years, 8 months ago

I'd like to read a bio on Boog Highberger. He is such an interesting guy who has so many quirks and has led a very fantastical life. Boog for President!

RETICENT_IRREVERENT 5 years, 8 months ago

I would read a biography on Lola Granola...

ontheotherhand 5 years, 8 months ago

RETICENT_IRREVERENT, who is John Galt??

Hugs, Dagny Taggart

sunflower_sue 5 years, 8 months ago

John Shaft. I've always thought he was a complicated man.

avaholic 5 years, 8 months ago

John Shaft? Why? No one would understand it but his women.

avaholic 5 years, 8 months ago

Have you seen the excellent Shaft movie?

Azure_Attitude 5 years, 8 months ago

Shaft is a Dolamite rip-off, man!! And which one is excellent: The Richard Roundtree or the Samuel L. "I'm-tired-of-these-m'f'in'-snakes-on-this-m'f'in'-plane" Jackson version? actually I have seen niether version in its entirety

I dig biographies. I really don'tknow who I'd like to read about next. Hapshetsut (sp) probably.

Azure_Attitude 5 years, 8 months ago

Windlass!?! shut-cho-mouth

avaholic 5 years, 8 months ago

Does the Sam Jackson one even count? The Roundtree Shaft is far better.

Windlass - I don't know what generation your talking about. I hope your not talking about the generation that invented Disco. Or the generation that thought Devo was amazing. I'm not saying my generation of wearing jeans at the knees and listening to Linkin Park is any better. I'm just asking has any generation not been "stuck on stupid"?

RETICENT_IRREVERENT 5 years, 8 months ago

Dagny, What is Morality?

Easy_Does_It 5 years, 8 months ago

Talkin 'bout my ggggeneration, why don't you all just fade away.........

Topside 5 years, 8 months ago

Don't know if it's been mentioned yet, but a real no holds barred tell all on Hugh Hefner. There has been a lot out on him but I think people leave out a lot.

ms_canada 5 years, 8 months ago

Dionisius Exiduous. The little Roman monk who worked on the calendar so long ago. Without him what year would it be exactly. google him.

ms_canada 5 years, 8 months ago

Oh Oh got his name wrong should be Dionysious

sunflower_sue 5 years, 8 months ago

A_A, My eldest is a Hapshetsut junkie! I would love to read that bio, too. I dig her! (Pun intended.)

ms_canada 5 years, 8 months ago

Windlass - sounds like you googled Dennis the Little as his collegues called him. Keeping time was was very important to the Jews because of the date to start Passover. Then it became important to the Christians. And I agree with you about no one dying like that. Even for one who is repentent.

ms_canada 5 years, 8 months ago

Or maybe you are just a history nut like me, windlass. I made a study of all of this date business when there was all the hoopla about the so called new millennium. My good man and I celebrated that with a bottle of champers a year later than most others

avaholic 5 years, 8 months ago

Ohhhhhh! That explains it. A flower child. I'm with you on the Beatles and the Who (if that was what you were getting at with all the "my generations"(thanks Easy_Does_It )) But don't say the sixties were a generation that wasn't stuck on stupid. Do the words "Acid Trip" meaning anything. I bet not if you were on "Acid Trips". It's also a decade marked by violence and love. How weird is that? It's also the decade that brought the tye dye shirt. Not cool.

GretchenJP 5 years, 8 months ago

Stephen King. Yes indeedily do.

jonas 5 years, 8 months ago

Magnus posts: (John Wayne):"I believe in white supremacy until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility."

You know, despite it's inevitability of prejudice and abuse, this line on its own really makes quite a lot of sense.

GretchenJP: Really, I think reading a large grouping of Stephen King's books ends up being something of his autobiography. Just the last three volumes of the Dark Tower alone tell you a great deal about several times in his personal life.