Rob Reagan De Busk

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I am obsessed with dwarves.  It started when I was twelve.  I walked through the school library on the first day of middle school and as we reached the back where the little conference rooms were, I looked down at the waiste high shelves and a book caught my eye.  It was "Nordic Gods and Heroes" by Padraic Colum.  I snagged the book and read snatches of it through the orientation video.  I had to put it back on the shelf before we left the library and wait a whole week to check it out.  I was hooked on the "Teutonic" mythos.  The next rung on the ladder was, of course, "The Hobbit" and followed by "The Lord of the Ringsi".  I recognized the Germanic Elements in the story and was enthralled with the imaginary world and the powerful themes in the writing.  From there it was all downhill.  I floated from luch-table to lunch-table and eventually made it to the lunch table where there were some guys, all of whom I recognized as heavy library users, gathered around a strange grid rolling dice and talking about strange things.  I made a dwarf and have never looked back.  I am now forty and my obsession has only hardened.  Yawp!  I write and play Irish flute and whistle, some mandola and various forms of percussion instruments.  Peace!

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Interests
Reading, writing, movies, hiking, camping, nature, music, Irish Trad flute/whistle, cryptozoology, viewing history in a skewed perspective.......

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Favorite Fantasy/Scifi Movies and TV Shows
Dragonslayer, Reign of Fire, Shrek, Blade Runner, Star Wars, almost anything with fantasy (even the bad stuff)......

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Favorite Fantasy/Scifi Books
I am as picky about what I read as I am not about what I watch. Sir Walter Scott (not fantasy but sometimes close), Tolkien of course, Anne Turnbull, Harry Potter, The Spooks Apprentice, Robert E. Howard, George MacDonald, J.V.Jones, Ed Greenwood, Robin Hood, Ronja the Robbers Daughter, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Weiss and Hickman, The Grimms, Kalevala, and many more.......

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Favorite Music
Irish traditional Music (the kind you play over too many beers while people dance around you, not the commercialish kind that is piped at you through giant speakers in a massively overpopulated venue), Norwegian/Swedish folk music, viking and folk metal (Skalmold, Eluveite, Tarja Turunen, Agalloch,etc.), Chinese/oriental traditional music, medieval music, Byzantine Chant, Faun, Valravn, Dead Can Dance, Krauka, Harv and more.....

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Friends at Elfwood
Friends at Elfwood: Dylan Lee Peters(Friend) .

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Rob Reagan De Busk

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 Last login at Elfwood: 2012-07-05 01:24:19
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