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Name: Ted Pease, Professor of Interesting Stuff
Email: ted.pease@usu.edu
Website(s): PeezPix (photos); TODAY’S WORD ON JOURNALISM


• Age: 53 (yikes!)
• Hometown: Petersboro, Utah, and Trinidad, Calif.
• Where were you born? Peterborough, NH (how cosmic is that?)
• How many siblings? I’m the first of four Peas(e) in the Pod
• Academic Major/minors: I was an English/Theatre/PoliSci/French major at UWashington, and ultimately an English/Journalkism grad at UNew Hampshire
• Describe yourself: I am a tall (6’3”) dorky guy, losing his hair but gaining in the gut. I’m a Cancer, a New Englander, fabulous squaredancer, a liberal Democrat who can’t take himself very seriously.
• Weirdest/most unusual thing you ever did/happened to you: hmmm. Too many to list. When I was 19, I dropped out of college, worked in a lumber mill to buy a bicycle and then rode from Seattle to Atlanta; then I hitchhiked home from Atlanta to Andover, Mass., went to work as a Sheraton bartender and then spent a year in France playing la guitare américaine in the Metro. Then there was the time I interviewed Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton....
• Hobbies: photography, fishing, gardening, cooking, guitar, boats, sloth
• Favorite thing in the world to do: anything on the ocean/on a boat; hang w/ Cooper & dawgs
• Favorite sport(s): tennis, golf, hiking, sloth
• Favorite food: hmmm... fresh Dungeness crab or Chinook salmon; fresh veggies; fresh bread
• Most hated food: hmmm. I’m omnivorous. Maybe brains or kidneys or something revolting like that.
• Favorite drink: coffee
• Your pet(s): We have three at the moment—a 6-year-old black Lab named Lulu, who is like a stuffy animal; a new (11-month) chocolate Lab, Sadie, who had been abandoned, who likes to fly through sprinklers and steals (and eats) my socks; and a grubby 11(?)-year-old furball named Fang the Wonder Cat, who appeared on the porch one February day when it was 17 degrees below zero; she chews on me (hence the name). (For more, see PeezPix.)

Sadie—Fishdog

Brenda & Lulu doing beach-laps

Sadie and her Mortal Enemy,
Fang the Wonder Cat

A perfect day—A dog and her sprinkler

• Foreign languages: French
• Favorite music/musician: um, classical (Beethoven, Mozart, Bach); Bonnie Raitt; Beatles; Rolling Stones; stuff with good harmonies and smart vocals; polka?
• Most hated music: I’m not much on loud noise
• Favorite movie: Casablanca, Spaceballs, Young Frankenstein
• Worst movie: Why keep keep track?
• Favorite news source: mailman, National Public Radio, NYTimes, Internet,
• If you were a food, fruit or vegetable, what would you be? weiner? asparagus? crustacean?
• What do you want to be when you grow up: Younger. Smarter. No, seriously, photographer/golfer/fisherman/writer
• If you could do any one single thing, what would it be? Sail around the world.
• How well informed would you say you are about current events/the world?
I live in a cave--pathetic--poor--not so hot—pretty well--very well—omnipotent