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| Joseph Emil Blum |
Biography:
I was named Joseph Emil Blum, sharing the same middle name of my father and paternal
grandfather. I like my middle name a lot. I've been called Giuseppi, Yussel, Joseph, Blues
Master, JoJo, and occasionally Jobo, but have always gone by Joey: it keeps me young and
reminds me not to take things seriously. I've never been Mr. Blum. I was born in Ohio and
raised in New York and my first paid job was removing ice from a Cadillac at the age of seven.
Abandoning that promising career I then went on to the care of exotic animals, life-guarding,
home insulating, oyster growing, construction, carpentry, fisheries biology, teacher of the living
and the dying, and lavender farming, just to name a few. At the age of eleven I first came to
Tumwater Washington and started spending summers there with relatives. I fell in love with the
Pacific Northwest that first summer and knew I would live there when I could get away from New
York. I did that for good at age 19. I now live in rural Oregon with my wife Nancy and daughter
Ruby and I spend winters alternately tormented and pleased by the thundering sounds of
amorous chorus frogs, and summers alternately tormented and pleased by slowly pitched
softballs. I am very proud to have juggled fish in the Bering Sea while working aboard the
world's largest fishing vessel, the Sulak: an act I believe may have facilitated the end of the
Cold War, and am equally proud to have sung in a Soviet fisherman's dance band aboard the
same vessel: an act that, no doubt, prolonged it. (Summer 2008)
Website address: http://josephemilblum.com
Index of Groundwaters contributions:
Volume 4 Issue 3 - “The Creation of Bedtime Stories: A Novel of Cinematic Wanderlust”
(personal experience/non-fiction)
Volume 5 Issue 2 - The subject of a book review by Jim Burnett
I was named Joseph Emil Blum, sharing the same middle name of my father and paternal
grandfather. I like my middle name a lot. I've been called Giuseppi, Yussel, Joseph, Blues
Master, JoJo, and occasionally Jobo, but have always gone by Joey: it keeps me young and
reminds me not to take things seriously. I've never been Mr. Blum. I was born in Ohio and
raised in New York and my first paid job was removing ice from a Cadillac at the age of seven.
Abandoning that promising career I then went on to the care of exotic animals, life-guarding,
home insulating, oyster growing, construction, carpentry, fisheries biology, teacher of the living
and the dying, and lavender farming, just to name a few. At the age of eleven I first came to
Tumwater Washington and started spending summers there with relatives. I fell in love with the
Pacific Northwest that first summer and knew I would live there when I could get away from New
York. I did that for good at age 19. I now live in rural Oregon with my wife Nancy and daughter
Ruby and I spend winters alternately tormented and pleased by the thundering sounds of
amorous chorus frogs, and summers alternately tormented and pleased by slowly pitched
softballs. I am very proud to have juggled fish in the Bering Sea while working aboard the
world's largest fishing vessel, the Sulak: an act I believe may have facilitated the end of the
Cold War, and am equally proud to have sung in a Soviet fisherman's dance band aboard the
same vessel: an act that, no doubt, prolonged it. (Summer 2008)
Website address: http://josephemilblum.com
Index of Groundwaters contributions:
Volume 4 Issue 3 - “The Creation of Bedtime Stories: A Novel of Cinematic Wanderlust”
(personal experience/non-fiction)
Volume 5 Issue 2 - The subject of a book review by Jim Burnett
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