Dave Hickman

My Interests:

(1)Victorian Midnight Cafe's food, drinks & truly progressive owner, waitresses, musicians and artists.

(2)Michael Auddino Bakery cannoli, Jorge Auddino's pizza. Studio 35's movies/pizza/beer, Ohio State Fair, buck-a-brat nights at Crew soccer games,

Nancy's chicken noodles, Stan's haddock, Milano's Lasagne, Roosters wings, El Vaquero flautas, Mozart's pastries, Patrick J's club sandwich, Yin Yue's wor sue gai, Yogi hoagies, Tee Jay's barnyard buster, Howdy's big breakfast, Aladdin's shawarma and thank God for 24/7 places like Hounddog's Pizza, Taco Bell and the ocassional White Castle double cheeseburger (3) Ohio State University English writing/literture classes, sports events, arts, theatre, Mirror Lake amphitheatre, Autumn leaves, Orton Hall chimes, the Oval on the first warm day of spring and lest we forget Mama's Pasta, Brennan's milky way lattes, Apollo's gyros, Adriatico's pizza, Buckeye Donuts in the middle of the night, Larry's Bar and Burritos as Big as Your Head!

(4) About anything on stage at the Ohio Theatre, Book Loft, Schiller Park Shakespeare plays, Schmidt's sausage buffet & live German music, Thurman Cafe's burgers, the greeting cards at Haus Frau Haven, Thursday Jazz at Museum of Art, the way they still say "howdy" at the original Tee Jays on Parsons Ave, Topiary Park near Main Library, Franklin Park, Nelson & Broad Old Bag of Nails fish, Clippers baseball dime-a-dog night, First Night Columbus, Gallery Hop, Phillip's Coney Islands, Press Grille's steak & mashed potatoes, 2Co's Cabaret's gourmet pizza, North Market, remembering Kent State while looking at the Rhodes Tower and ComFest-ComFest-ComFest.
(5) Hiking and biking at Whetstone Park of Roses/Olentangy River, Hocking Hills-Wayne National Forest-Athens and Yellow Springs-Glen Helen-Clifton Gorge.

Political Skills:

Create, promote, coordinate, collaborate and/or moderate related to Meetups, discussion groups, grassroots activities, rallies, demonstrations, social get-togethers and other gatherings of people.

I earned an undergraduate degree in Public Relations and Advertising from The Ohio State University School of Journalism. Work experience has been Sales and Marketing centered.

I dedicate "Dangerous Man" song to thieves, liars, cheaters, manipulators and their enablers who are mistaken about power, wealth and/or influence being more important than truth, honesty, patience and determination. (see "Website")

Favorite Quote:

"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth."
-President John F. Kennedy

"Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)"
-Walt Whitman "Song of Myself"

"Hope of a secure & livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

"I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account in my next excursion."
-Henry David Thoreau "Walden"

About Me:

coming soon