1990 - Dan McLaughlin
Basically since 1990 I have been the local history librarian at the Pasadena Public Library, a city which has been blessed with a great deal of history and until recently many local newspapers that covered it. Taming that informational treasure trove has been a major professional occupational interest of mine along with also dealing with a delightfully abbreviated photo collection.
Non-professionally, I have drawn on my UCLA years in two main projects. "Oh No, Not Emily!" is a musical that explores what happens when a con man sells a forged Emily Dickinson poem to a very modern English Department at a very large, very modern university located somewhere near an ocean. It was recently nominated for a Just Plain Folks Best Musical Album.
More recently I have written and self-published over the internet a novella called "ICE Girls: What Managers Can Learn from the Story of the ‘Little Match Girl’ by One Who Was There". It looks at that classic story of Hans Christian Andersen from the point of view of management and is in the "tradition" of a self-help management manuals such as sacred cows make great burgers and moving the cheese to excite the mouse.
Only its meant to be funny.
Dan is currently beginning work on his new project "The Sorrows of Young Werther’s (Therapist)" which he insists is a very funny idea.
Most people, so far, disagree.
Dan McLaughlin
355 S. Madison Ave. #220
Pasadena CA 91101
libraryguy@earthlink.net
http://www.ohnonotemily.com/
http://www.ohnonotemily.com/icegirls.html
http://www.digstation.com/DamMcLaughin
http://cdbaby.com/cd/danmclaughlin
http://www.createspace.com/3346080
