Robert
Accolades
"The highlight of the evening"
--Better Homes and Gardens
"[...] easily the beau ideal among Wisconsin's multitudes of accomplished amateur lexicographers"
--The New York Review of Books
"Perhaps the personification of magniloquence"
--Cat Fancy
"[...] a shrieking, tumescent delight!"
--Gothic & Lolita Bible
"[Buchanan is] now an aureate vector for that most virulent strain of sensual Yellow Fever"
--Psychology Today
"Very good, very funny at party until we brought out dogs"
--Zladecz
I'm an author, lexicographer, cacophonist, ailurophile, bibliophile, cinephile, logophile, inveterate aggregator, dedicated middlebrow, incontestable babe, borderline narcissist, weirdly semi-Mediterranean Native American, and alliterative anastrophe addict. My personality type is superlative INTJ.
Avocations & interests
- Ambulation
- Architecture & interior design
- Composition
- Cycling
- Ethnology
- Games:
- Board games
- Card games
- Video games
- Graphic design
- Lexicography
- Linguistics
- Microeconomics
- Puzzles:
- Crossword puzzles
- Jigsaw puzzles
- Tangram puzzles
- Word-finder puzzles
- Organized crime
- Photography
- Reading
- Ukiyo-e
Favorites
Architects
Authors
- Woody Allen
- Anthony Burgess
- Beverly Cleary
- Theodore Dalrymple
- H.P. Lovecraft
- Cormac McCarthy
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Dr. Seuss
- Hunter S. Thompson
- Voltaire
Cartoonists, comics creators & mangaka
- Sergio Aragonés
- Mort Drucker
- Jean Giraud
- Frank Miller (1981-1995)
- Masamune Shirow
- Bill Watterson
Cineastes
Filmmakers
- Woody Allen (1969-1993)
- Pedro Almodóvar
- Catherine Breillat
- John Carpenter (1974-1994)
- Joel and Ethan Coen
- Terry Gilliam
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Shohei Imamura
- Alejandro Jodorowsky
- Stanley Kubrick
- Akira Kurosawa
- Kiyoshi Kurosawa
- Sergio Leone
- David Lynch
- Hayao Miyazaki
- Maurice Pialat
- Roman Polanski (1962-1976)
- Éric Rohmer
- Jan Svankmajer
Thespians
- Sho Aikawa
- Jacqueline Bisset
- Richard Burton
- Catherine Deneuve
- Gerard Depardieu
- Charles Durning
- Jeff Fahey
- Peter Falk
- Pam Grier
- Gene Hackman
- Rutger Hauer
- Isabelle Huppert
- John Hurt
- Michael Keaton
- Jennifer Jason Leigh
- Jack Lemmon
- Janet Margolin
- Tatsuya Nakadai
- Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward
- Warren Oates
- Donald Pleasence
- Gena Rowlands
- George C. Scott
- Paul Sorvino
- Harry Dean Stanton
- Rip Torn
- Jean-Louis Trintignant
- Lee Van Cleef
- Nicol Williamson
- Natalie Wood
Musicians & cacophonists
Composers
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Angelo Badalamenti
- Béla Bartók
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Frédéric Chopin
- Claude Debussy
- Franz Joseph Haydn
- Bernard Herrmann
- Kenji Kawai
- Koji Kondo
- Felix Mendelssohn
- Ennio Morricone
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Krzysztof Penderecki
- Sergei Prokofiev
- Maurice Ravel
- Domenico Scarlatti
- Franz Schubert
- Toru Takemitsu
- Antonio Vivaldi
Soloists
- Martha Argerich
- Vladimir Horowitz
- Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli
- Ivo Pogorelic
- Maurizio Pollini
- Sviatoslav Richter
- Leonard Rose
- Mstislav Rostropovich
- Mitsuko Uchida
Folk music & musicians
Electronicists
Others
- Einstürzende Neubauten
- Nick Drake
Rhythm & blues singers
- James Brown
- Sam Cooke
- Marvin Gaye
Rockers
- The Beatles
- David Bowie
- The Breeders
- The Cure
- The Doors
- Joy Division
- My Bloody Valentine
- Roy Orbison
- Pink Floyd (1965-1977)
- Pixies
- The Ramones
- The Runaways
- The Smiths
- Spinal Tap
Others
Painters & engravers
- Saul Bass
- Salvador Dalí
- Albrecht Duerer
- H.R. Giger
- Yukio Kitta
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
- Hajime Sorayama
- Frederic Soulacroix
- Kuniyoshi Utagawa
- Johannes Vermeer
Humorists
Table games
- Battleship
- Checkers
- Connect Four
- Jenga
- Mahjong
- Monopoly
- Parcheesi
- Reversi/Othello
- Simon
See also...
...these books, these movies and these video games
Peeves
Architards
- Le Corbusier
- Frank Gehry
- Thom Mayne
- Jean Nouvel
Fauxteurs
- Michael Bay
- Luc Besson
- Kenneth Branagh
- Sofia Coppola
- Roland Emmerich
- Yorgos Lanthimos
- Spike Lee
- Gary Ross
- Kevin Smith
- Sophia Takal
- Lars von Trier
- Joss Whedon
(sub-)Literary hacks
- Robert Christgau
- Roger Ebert
- Stephenie Meyer
- Philip Roth
- J. K. Rowling
- John Scalzi
- Kurt Vonnegut
Miserable musicians
- Joan Baez
- Blancmange
- Bush
- The Clash
- Phil Collins
- Celine Dion
- Depeche Mode (2016-)
- Drake
- Duran Duran
- Electric Light Orchestra
- Bruno Mars
- Matchbox Twenty
- John Mellencamp
- Pink
- Public Enemy
- Rage Against the Machine
- Rush
- Tupac Shakur
- Bruce Springsteen
- Taylor Swift
- U2
- Kanye West
Online rookeries
- Amazon
- Apple
- Buzzfeed
- Facebook
- Jim's Blog
- Linkedin
- Quora
- Twitter
Social and ideological failures
- Advertising agencies
- Animal abusers
- Censors
- Cultists & ideologues:
- Evangelicals
- Hipsters
- Leftards:
- Marxists
- Progressives
- Baizuo
- Hippies
- Social justice warriors
- Third- and fourth-wave feminists
- Vegans
- Neoliberals/lolberts
- Rightards:
- Christian Zionists
- MGTOW
- Moderate/mainstream pseudo-conservatives
- National Socialists
- Neoconservatives
- Neo-reactionaries/Dark Enlightenment proponents
- Scientologists
- Fans:
- Beatlemaniacs
- Gridiron football fans
- GTK 3's apologists
- Joy Division's fans
- Kanye West's sober fans
- Michael Jackson's fans
- Fuckboys
- Anyone who mistypes "Micheal"
- Milksops
- Philadelphians
- Slam poets
- Surgical addicts
- Wastrels
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