Hi Everyone! I'm Lefty Obradovich and this is my steemit self-introduction. I have lived in China and in Taiwan for the past seventeen years teaching English. Currently I teach at a uni in the Taipei area, but my contract ends on 7/31 and I won't be renewing it for a number of reasons, one of which is extreme burnout. So I'll have lots of time to post on steemit! I plan to utilize steemit primarily to publish a novel that I spent over ten years working on. I'll be publishing it in a serialized format. I've chosen steemit because I took a long hard look into breaking into the conventional publishing world and quite frankly, I can't be bothered with it. Below is some of my personal info.

Personal Details

• U.S. citizen
• Graduate of San Francisco Art Institute (B.F.A. in Painting)
• Graduate of National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (M.A. in Foreign Language Education)
• Former heroin addict
• Former member of a number of punk bands
• Soon to be unemployed ESL uni teacher

Personal Interests

Music
• Late 70's punk
• Gregorian Chant
• Jazz (Thelonius Monk, Chet Baker, Django Reinhardt)
• Latin (Perez Prado, Astor Piazzolla, Che! Soundtrack)
• Traditional Chinese
• Traditional Japanese
• Proto-punk (Stooges, New York Dolls, T Rex)

Art
• German Expressionism
• Abstract Expressionism
• Anselm Kiefer
• Joan Mitchell
• Jean Michel Basquiat

Film
• Man Bites Dog
• Chinatown
• Pulp Fiction
• The Big Lebowski
• Sunset Boulevard

Rugby Union
• New Zealand All Blacks
• Christchurch Crusaders

Language Study
• Mandarin Chinese
• Southern Min

Literature
• Louis Ferdinand Celine
• Knut Hamson
• John Fante
• Dan Fante
• Sherwood Anderson
• Ben John Smith


Here I am on the mountain where I exercise in New Taipei City.

Here I am playing Summer Vocabulary Bingo with some of my students.

Here's my non-bot documentation.