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Background

I am an American science fiction writer of Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Flemish, Alsatian, Bavarian, Cajun, and Cherokee descent. I have lived and/or traveled all over the United States and Canada, from Chicago to New Orleans, Boston to San Francisco, New York City to Los Angeles, Toronto to Eugene, Oregon. I currently live in Bloomington, Indiana.

Eventually, I would like to settle in either New Orleans (probably in Algiers) or somewhere in the southwest of Ireland (probably in County Kerry), both of which are near the top of my list of favorite places in the world.

Interests

My areas of study and interest are quite diverse (many, though not all, of them can be seen in the userboxes to the right), and my hope and intention (time permitting) is to contribute to a great many articles on these topics.

"...these are a few of my favorite things..."

Projects

Decentralism

I began work on a Decentralism article, which will detail the history of the political philosophy of devolution, secession, community and regional empowerment, etc., advocated by E. F. Schumacher, Leopold Kohr, Ivan Illich, Lewis Mumford, Ralph Borsodi et al.

At some point, articles are needed on other important 20th century American decentralists: Bob Swann and Mildred Loomis (both of whom were students and associates of Borsodi, Loomis later taking over The School of Living), as well as C. George Benello and Susan Witt (currently Executive Director of the E. F. Schumacher Society). Likewise, the article about Herbert Agar is a stub, and talks only of his work as a journalist, saying nothing of him as an agrarian and decentralist. The Gene Logsdon article is also in need of a lot of work.

The articles about Colin Ward, George Woodcock, and Kenneth Rexroth, need a lot of work, including expansion and referencing.

I moved "back to the land" to back-to-the-land movement, which makes more sense to me. But, it still needs work. Related articles that I have worked on include self-sufficiency, simple living, and sustainable living.

Looking at the Second Vermont Republic article, I see that there is no article about John McClaughry, or the book he authored with Frank Bryan, The Vermont Papers: Recreating Democracy on a Human Scale. That is something I should address at some point in the future.

Some related work needs to be done in the Regionalism (politics) article, which is currently little more than a stub. One thing the article needs is a listing of important books on the subject. This would include two books by Mike Zwerin: Devolutionary Notes and A Case For The Balkanization Of Practically Everybody. This would also involve an expansion of the Zwerin article to reflect his work as an author.

Other projects

• Doctors, Professors, Kings & Queens: The Big Ol' Box of New Orleans
• Situationist International legacy
• Hipster
• My stalker

Barnstars

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		Great job slugging it out with vandals! Cheers, JetLover (Report a mistake) 03:48, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

		The Original Barnstar
		Keep up the good work of destroying the dreams of children.... One Night In Hackney303 05:01, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

The Original Barnstar to RepublicanJacobite: Thanks for fixing up the formatting on Art Nouveau - I hope to further back-up and clean-up that article for accuracy.--LPFixIt (talk) 13:47, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

		The Music Barnstar
		I award the Music Barnstar to RepublicanJacobite for your great job on The Clash article. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:17, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

		The Excellent Userpage Award
		entertaining, useful, informative, beautiful Ultra! 22:36, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

		Your Opinion is More Important than You Think Barnstar
		I'd like to present you with this barnstar on behalf of the help and guidance you provided me a long time ago. I was new to wikipedia and short of temper and you helped give me constructive criticism which I have taken to heart since that time. Thank you for all your help! Banime (talk) 21:38, 13 September 2008 (UTC)