George Koch

I was born August 26, 1981, in Greenbrae, Calif.
I live in West Chicago, Ill., and graduated from Benedictine University in Lisle.

I work as a freelance copy editor and writer.

I can be reached at MrNobody97 (at) aol.com or GeorgeAugustKoch (at) aol.com. MrNobody97 is the screen name I use on the Instant Messenger.

Two quotes:
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." – Jim Elliot, missionary – and martyr at 28.

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else." – C.S. Lewis

I like smart, humorous people but have little patience for irrational, bureaucratic people. I read a wide range of authors, including Dave Barry, Marilyn vos Savant, Richard Lederer, Frank Peretti, Richard Feynman, Zora Neale Hurston, William Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll, Ernie Pyle and Sterling Seagrave. Some interests of mine are editing, symbolic logic, etymology and language, photography, quiz shows, journalism and theatre.

We lived in California until June 1994, when we moved out here. I've traveled to Austria, Belgium, England and Ireland. Places I'd like to visit include Machu Picchu ("Old Mountain"), Rapa Nui ("navel of the world") and Terra Incognita Australis (Antarctica, "the unknown land of the south").

Writings Page: Includes poems, essays, research papers, journalism articles, humorous pieces, and scripts for radio and television. Another section has print ads and other visual projects. This page currently has 187 different written and visual projects.

Photography: Links to a separate Web site, Flickr, where I upload photos I take. There are about 2100 photographs currently online.

The Opera: Tells how I became interested in the opera. I am a longtime operagoer. At age 18 months I figured out how to use the cassette-tape deck and only liked the classical and operatic tapes. I first went to an opera at two-and-a-half and have gone ever since.

Those Magnificent Miles: A Web site created by Peter Seely, the Communication Arts department chair at Benedictine. The site, which resembles a travelogue of sorts, uses photos, written information and narrated video clips to take people on a journey through the history, highways and small towns of Illinois. A neat way to introduce people to a rediscovery of the "magnificent miles" of Illinois.

Letters From Jim: Very funny letters, anonymously written.

Memorable Quotes: When good teachers go strange.

Images: Art, scanned images, etc.

Sounds Page: Various audio files.

Page of Links: Some other interesting Web sites.

Fast Facts Page: On some friends, relatives and family members.

TV Shows: Includes multiple sub-pages, each about a particular program.

"If the enemy is so bold with his lies, how much more bold should we be with the truth."
 

Tales From the Vault



More to come
(in the meantime, here is a rotating penguin)