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Mark Plimsoll Biography
Born lacking instincts for self-preservation in the year the United States stumbled upon the Block Party to overthrow governments (IRAN), he would later go to Guatemala and stumble upon the 1970s repercussions of that style of foriegn policy, when the CIA overthrew the Guatemala's president in 1954. He traveled alone, survived body-surfing hurricane-generated waves (destruction of Mazatlan in 1975), machine-gun toting presidential press corps dancing in their underwear on Guatemala's "Hawaii" beach (which later becomes an important bio-reserve) and a 7.5 on the Richter scale earthquake that killed 22,000 people in thirty seconds.
Remarkably, he's continued to survive other other adventures, which he describes as "cultural Scuba Diving," in reference to total immersion to learn the dialects. He walked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon three times and photographed most of the U.S. National Park System, lived in fourteen cities and used a bicycle for transportation, and travels with mask, snorkel, and ultra-portable 'Flips' swimfins to snorkel all alone in places like Caye Caulker, Loreto, Puerto Vallarta, Cancun, Isla Mujeres, Cuatro Cienegas' Rio Mesquite (the Galapagos of North America), la Jolla Cove, Monterrey Bay, Lake Amistad, Ensenada, Bahias de Huatulco, Lago de Atitlan, etc.
His self-destructive tendencies allowed him to avoid an education and work as a maid in Aspen, a Heritage Hill housepainter, portrait artist in Opryland, an English teacher and Time-share salesman in Mexico. He painted, wrote songs, poetry, and fiction, and played guitar in New Wave art-rock bands from the Midwest to Los Angeles.
He produces literary work that deals with gender issues, social justice, language as neuron-linguistic programming, the non-export of ethics in globalization, the fabrication of geo-political reality by corporate-owned mass media, and how ethno-cultural distinctions and national ideologies influence interpersonal international relationships. His creative nonfiction accounts detail travels into a Guatemalan Killer Earthquake, Hawaii Wiccan cultures, the dissipation of the Mexican upper class, the initiation of Havana's re-instated Canaval, the victimization of women in Globalized economies, Prostitution along the Mexican-American border, the psycho-sexual aggression of abused women, and How Not to Marry a Mexican Prostitute.
He currently produces a multi-media podcast called Cell U.R., "A Gothic, Sci-Fi, Multi-media musical Vampire comedy" about humanity as nano-connected units of the Megapoli, where computers and vampires affect people "one byte (sic) at a time."
MarkPlimsoll's Genres: creative nonfiction, literary fiction, erotic anit-violence, multi-media, poetry, song lyrics
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