BIO:
ONE:
I am not running so I can get my picture on the news or to get famous, which is the motivation for too many people who run for office.
I have many other skills---I’m an award-winning writer, filmmaker, composer, cartoonist, and much more---and I'd rather not waste my time running for mayor, but I've seen your other choices and it does NOT look good.
I am more qualified to be mayor than all the other candidates combined and so I have a moral obligation to try and help fix this city.
And I have a simple ethic: either get off your ass and fix it yourself or else you can’t complain.
Put up or shut up.
So I'm getting off my ass and trying to fix our completely atrocious political system.
I am NOT interested in marching in parades and jumping in front of every camera like Koch/Dinkins/Giuliani/Bloomberg and when you read my 100 INNOVATIONS FOR NYC (and compare it with Freddy Bloomberg’s hilarious amateurish “platform”) I think it’s irrefutable that I’m the smartest, most honest, and best candidate.
But some of you will really want to see a bio of some sort
and know more about me and so I'll relent.
But first…
TWO:
I am a very PRIVATE person.
I’m like Johnny Carson in that way: I do very PUBLIC things, but I don’t do them so I’ll be recognized
when I walk down the street.
I don’t like being recognized, because I’m not vain like Mike Bloomberg. I’ve
been a “local celebrity” since I was 7 years old and it’s unpleasant to be
walking down the street and have people point at you, even if it’s for positive reasons. (As an artist, I get recognized a lot, and
most of the feedback I get is positive, but I don’t make my work to please
others. I do it to please myself, and so being recognized sort of troubles me.)
I like FREEDOM, and that means invisibility.
That’s another reason you won’t see my picture plastered all over this website.
I AM a very open person though, and
I’m actually a very friendly person as well, but I also try to keep to myself
because I’m such a busy writer, artist, activist, etc.
On this site, I want to be judged by my IDEAS, not my hair, or my smile, or whether I’m good looking or bad looking.
Now, what do you want to know about me that I should put in this bio?
My favorite foods?
(Pizza, broccoli in garlic sauce, onion rings, and pastrami sandwiches [which I cannot eat any more as I’m a vegetarian].)
My favorite music?
I love Led Zeppelin and the Beatles, because both were innovators thruout their careers (even at the end of their career) and I love those who break the rules and have boundless curiosity. I generally like music that is more off the beaten path however, preferring Eric Dolphy or Dmitri Shostakovich to more popular jazz and classical artists. I think Claude Debussy should be as successful as Bach.
My favorite songs are “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” by the Beach Boys, “Got To Get You Into My Life” by The Beatles, and thousands of other songs.
My favorite angel?
Kate Jackson.
Do you really
care about any of this?
BASICS:
I was born in Marlboro, Massachusetts, a small city of 30,000 people, and proceeded to raise hell whenever I encountered dishonesty or stupidity.
I have battled inept or crooked authority whenever it treated the little guy like dirt, whether that be egomaniacal factory management which didn't know how to improve production (b/c they were stuck in their ivory towers and had no idea what was really going on on the floor) or crooked police officers. (My first arrest was at the age of 18 when an officer violated my federally “guaranteed” free speech rights.) [Unusually, the crook was thrown off the police force a few years later, but that was for sexually harassing women.]
Unlike my friends and family---who think I'm too passionate about injustice---I've always been a fighter, and it seems I have some biological predisposition to expose and stand up to corruption and incompetency.
I've been a vegetarian for the last 16 years (never wavering ONCE, though I miss pastrami more than you can imagine) and I prefer European films to most of the crap that Hollywood produces.
Is that enough information
for now?
NOTE: I don’t list my birthdate because I’m fed up with our society caring so much about a person’s AGE.
Every day, people are discriminated against because they are too YOUNG or too OLD and you see it in most journalism.
100% of pieces I read mention the subject’s AGE, (usually in the first two paragraphs!) when it is not usually relevant in any way. (Why don’t they always tell us Bloomberg’s blood type? Why don’t they tell us most subjects’ middle names? Because this isn’t relevant in any way.
We’ve all experienced age discrimination at some point in our lives and it’s
WRONG, WRONG, WRONG. We all want to be judged on our PERSONAL merit, not
arbitrary and false qualifications. And so I’m putting my foot down and saying
STOP IT. I don’t care how old Bloomberg or Gifford Miller is. I don’t care how
old Nicole Kidman or Nellie McKay is.
Judge people on their merit.
Not their age.
Period.
(Ending age discrimination---like not allowing 18 year olds to go to music clubs, comedy clubs, and other places---is already in my 100 INNOVATIONS FOR NYC. Now ask Freddy Bloomberg his plan.)
Oh--- I should mention that I was invited to audition for two projects as a performer and got them both: I shot a Snapple (!!) commercial [for Israel tv!] and I did a voice-over for some Disney-related animation pilot that paid very handsomely.
So if you think I'm running for mayor b/c I've got nothing better to do then you're dead wrong. I'd be happier doing this stuff than running for mayor. (Maybe I should join the Screen Actors Guild instead of trying to save NYC.)
Unfortunately, for the last 15 years in NYC I’ve been working about 90 hours a week to fight corruption in Government, Media, and more. (And it doesn’t pay a cent.) (At least if I worked at the most horrible day job, I’d be rewarded with a pay check.)
And this is why I’m abandoning all hope for NYC if I don’t win the election.
I’m tired of fighting for taxpayers who won’t fight for themselves, and I am going to leave NYC for good. This town is simply too corrupt and the politicians and media are more crooked than you can imagine and I’m sick of it.
EX:
The ENTIRE media continues to spread hundreds of thousands of lies every single day and I am obligated to try and let you know the TRUTH.
EX:
the entire media quoted Lord Bloomberg mocking Cablevision for its failed business ventures but not a single journalist thought it mattered to point out that… ALL of Bloomberg’s business ventures---except for one (The Bloomberg Machines)---are a TOTAL FAILURE that cannot turn a profit!
They were trying to deceive their readers.
But don’t get me started.
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AS YOU KNOW, it’s incredibly frustrating trying to fight media lies and govt lies, and I can’t tell you how depressing my life is. I either FIGHT these crooked Goliaths and ruin my life, or else I IGNORE them---letting them get away with robbing us and destroying our lives---and ruin my life.
I’ve been a nice person my whole life, and tried to help others but you know where nice guys finish.
More times than I can recount people took advantage of my kindness.
And you all have witnessed what happens to good People who obey the law their whole life: they still find their lives destroyed by evil, whether that’s courtesy of Enron, or Con Ed, or Verizon or Govt or such. Families in Iraq who feared Saddam Hussein had their whole lives destroyed and their families murdered by U.S. bombs and no one seems to care. (Heck, your taxdollars were used to arm Hussein with Chemical Weapons, and the Bush family helped prop the dictator up, just as they had in many other nations. I don’t understand how Republicans can like a man like Dubya who hates Democracy so much (see his pals Saudi Arabia) (or his complete lack of concern that Americans voted for Al Gore by over 600,000 more votes in the popular vote). (I hated Al Gore, but anyone who says the wishes of the American people don’t count is a friend of Saddam Hussein, Josef Stalin, and more.) (How can Republicans like Bush when he’s wasted more tax dollars than any other HUMAN BEING in history? He’s the most liberal, Big Govt politician in U.S. history! He’s just another lying politician and the media covered up thousands of his lies and crimes.)
But I’ve digressed again.
BOTTOM LINE:
You either want a mayor who promises—guaranteed in writing---to listen to you and obey you, and who promises to fix NYC’s problems or else he doesn’t get paid, or else you don’t, and you must vote for Freddy Bloomberg.