: About Me

Corky von Texasheim has worked as a writer, an art model, a welder, an actor, an interpreter, a tutor, and about fifty other professions during his young life.

He has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Medical Anthropology from the University of Michigan-Flint, and is currently studying for an M.A. in English and Linguistics at West Texas A & M University.

His current academic research is about the interchangeability of words for analgesic pharmaceuticals.

He hopes to be the "fun Grandpa" in his 80s, entertaining his future grandchildren about his days as an archaeologist, or bouncer, or working at a TV station in South Dakota, or any of the other strange jobs he's held.

He has a forthcoming documentary film entitled "The Ghost at the Banquet" about the stigma associated with developmental disability.

He hates the state of Nebraska and will never go there again, even if for a gazillion dollars and a free Cheese of the Month club. He lives in Amarillo.

My passion is ...

my spawn.

I know too much about ...

Harris Lines in post-Chacoan, Four Corners Anasazi femurs.

My parents always told me ...

put that down! You don't know where that's been!

My childhood ambition ...

to be Saint Corky of the Lower Peninsula.

My favorite memory ...

getting off a plane and hugging my family at ANY time.

Why I write ...

because I must... and I'm too ugly to be a fashion model.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

How Clean is Your House? (I'm a HUGE Kim fan.)

My first job ...

carhop at a teeny weeny restaurant in Farwell, Michigan.

My best moment ...

finally beating Tamika Bracy at a Spelling Bee.

My inspiration ...

anybody who flips the proverbial bird to the crowd to do what's right.

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I debated whether or not to say anything on this issue. I debated because it requires me to address another article in this section. Another article in this section sounds dangerously close to what happened in Germany to various groups during the Holocaust, and the word "camps" is specifically used. We're right now witnessing gestapo style tactics being used to raid largely Hispanic neighborhoods, with scores of people leaving places like a town in Oklahoma, with police randomly asking those of Latino heritage the equivalent of "are your papers in order?" which smacks of not only Nazi Germ...

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