I live by the river

A little about myself. My name is Jason Gallagher I am a 26-year-old independent scholar from Cincinnati, Ohio, originally from Saint Louis, Missouri and born and raised in Springfield, Illinois. I have a bachelor’s in English from Webster University in Saint Louis and am currently applying to universities around the country to finish my work on my Masters degree after starting it about three years ago. I have an academic interest in popular culture, especially film, as well as the literature of the 20th century American West, focusing on urban landscapes. My thesis is about the “golden age” of Los Angeles from 1930-1950. I live with my finance Susan in a 1890s row house that looks over the city of Cincinnati and onto the Ohio River and the Kentucky hills.
As a way of trying to prove that this is as scientific a process as a student of English can provide here is a list of media outlets that I have access to daily. I subscribe to an expanded service of cable television but do not watch more then four hours of television a day, even on the weekends, mostly BookTV and the nightly news. I subscribe to the New Yorker, Entertainment Weekly, and the Cincinnati Enquirer, and other then the fact that there are many months, worth of old copies of those magazines lying around the house they have been there before the idea of this project came to be. I pick up Cincinnati’s independent newspaper, CityBeat as while as its counterpart published by the Enquirer for young professionals CinWeekly every week. I write daily listening the public radio. I receive e-mail updates from WLWT and Cincinnati public radio daily. Other then checking my e-mail and reading the newspaper and the magazines that have been pilling up daily there is no other connection to the media other then television that I have outside of my 9 to 5 work week.