My Favorites - Hal Gabow
Composer: Beethoven
20th Century Composer: Stravinsky
Most Overrated Composer: Brahms
Opera: La Traviata (Verdi)
Comic Opera: Don Giovanni (Mozart)
Rock group: Fleetwood Mac
Vocal Rock Group: Bee Gees
Guitarist: Eric Clapton
Singer/songwriter: Bob Dylan
Hobbies: Ballroom dancing (but we only do it seriously on vacation), beginning piano player
Movie: Groundhog Day
Science Fiction Movie: 2001: A Space Odyssey
Book: War and Peace (Tolstoy)
Science Fiction Author: Larry Niven
Detective: Lord Peter Wimsey
Sherlock Holmes actor: Jeremy Brett
Most Recent Books Read: The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini); Piano Lessons: Music, Love & True Adventures (Noah Adams); Galatea 2.2 (Richard Powers); A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Dave Eggers);Digital Fortress (Dan Brown); Blown (Francine Mathews); Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams); Wilt in Nowhere ( Tom Sharpe)); The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown); A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again (David Foster Wallace) ; Fate is the Hunter (Ernest K. Gann); Flatterland (Ian Stewart); The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time and the Texture of Reality (Brian Greene); Pattern Recognition (William Gibson); The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (Michael Chabon), Into Thin Air (Jon Krakauer)
Most Recent "Busdriver's
"Most recent" is misleading; I'm ashamed how long it took me to read these books.
TV Show: Masterpiece Theater
Radio Show: Talk of the Nation, Neal Conan
Radio Interviewer: Terry Gross (Fresh Air)
National Park: Yosemite
Hike: favorite hike ≡ last hike: Black Lake, Fall ’05 see below (Odessa Lake, Fall ’03)
Resort: The
Balsams
Participant Sport: tennis
Sports Team: Denver
Broncos
Sports Hero: I root for anyone over 40 (Exceptions: Oakland
Raiders; baseball players):
- Edwin Moses
Roger Clemens So good I negate my BBall rule.I'll await resolution of this issue before removing the entry entirely.- George Foreman. I resurrected George's entry. He is still saying he'll be back.
Sports Talk Host: Sandy Clough
Sports Columnist: Woody Paige
Hospital: Denver Health & Hospitals (CEO, Patricia Gabow)
Surgeon: Dr. Wade Smith. (see pics)
News on My Wife: Good HouseKeeping , August 2002; Colorado Women's Hall of Fame, inducted 2004; Modern Health Care , April 2005; Denver Business Journal August 2005; August 22: Modern Healthcare names Patty the 76th Most Powerful Person in Healthcare ; September 30: Denver Business Journal, "Gabow takes lead in metro health care" Denver Business Journal August 2005; Newsweek Oct 6 2006 story on IT at Denver Health; Penn Medicine Fall 2006 "Heading Denver's Largest 'Safety Net'":Dr. Gabow's Treatment Plan"; Denver Post Jan 2007 interview on healthcare management; Denver Business Journal Dr. Patricia Gabow takes lead in metro health care , Patricia Gabow named 2007 Unique Woman of Colorado (click on "view excerpt")
Rocky
. Black Lake