Mike's Professors
Headmaster Professor Mike Greene
The honorable Headmaster of the Manhattan-based Little Greene Schoolhouse (named for all the honorable Greenes in the world). Ecclectic, pensive, a contrarian,preferring the "live and let live" philosophy of life, steeped in the hot traditions of the Norteamericano culture, full of the best of bulls, unpremeditative, as spontaneous as moonlight, totally oblivious to the supernatural, a professor who believes in learning by experiential accidents, a promoter of Gertrude Stein's concept of the continuing present, and a champion of all men and women are islands and they need bridges like the Little Greene Schoolhouse to connect them.
Professor L. Ted Moore (1930-2002)
Professor L. Ted Moore was a professor of Industrial Engineering at West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia, for several decades. Dr. Moore unfortunately died in January 21, 2002, but Ted still speaks from the ground from whence the roots of all life begin. He left behind a textbook and letters to me and I remember Ted when he was developing, we grew up together out on the wide-open, dry and wooly prairies of West Texas. Calculating and modelling were Ted's tools he used to create the many patterns he had in his astute head and to shape those patterns into concrete realities. Ted and I used to dream of Chaos and Black Holes and time reversals and things. Ted is now thinking from the ethereal. We will read his book and give it a speech and see what develops.
El Professor, Douglas Jordon, composer, pianist, arranger, webmeister, the etcetera to the art of music and graphics
Doug Jordon came on the scene in the eighties, first appearing with the Rumprollers, a New York City fucking, kick-ass band that was condemned from its beginning by the inner prima donna attitude of many of the cocky, self-assured members (including the head master of the Little Greene Schoolhouse) who wanted to be more than the best bar band in existence, though that wasn't the object in the leader's mind. Doug is from Flint, Michigan, and studied music at Michigan State University, with a major in piano, and what a pianist he is. Doug has a great attitude toward music, very pragmatic, subject to level headedness rather than chance-taking, or silly "let's do it even though it may kill us" bumbling ahead toward blinding stardom. Doug has a great cd out with his Dream Changes trio, and you can hear them via mp3 technology at www.dreamchanges.com. Your headmaster has been a fan of Doug's since I first heard him accompany a woman singing "Jerusalem," when the Rumprollers were playing a very Jewish wedding at a concave in Upstate New York.