Mitch Pravatiner: A Man and His Homepage

(both always under construction)

"Every cobbler thinks leather is the only thing, and for better or worse, I am
 a sociologist."
  --C. Wright Mills, _The Sociological Imagination_

"To a sociologist, everything is data."
  --Pauline Bart, Sociology 489, Spring Quarter 1973

• The first known picture of me on the net (Cropped and blown up from the original bashpic)

• The second known picture of me on the net (From the pages of Laurie Cubbison, someone well worth knowing in her own right. I'm at the far right in the picture at the bottom of the page)
• Pictures from the March, 1997 Windsor Moofest (From the photographic artistry of Alex_P_Keaton of UMOO. Some of them are even of me)

Links to resources in my favorite fields of knowledge

• Sociology
• City Planning
• Sociolegal Studies
• Public Opinion Research

The homepages of my favorite mailing lists

• Ecto The music of Happy Rhodes and a lot more
• Cybermind The philosphy and psychology of cyberspace
• WNN World News Now: The finest overnight news show on TV today

My favorite life activity of late--MOOing

• Freya's Pageful of MOOs (At this writing I'm Caille_Bot on PMC, Lambda, River, Bay, Dhalgren, Media, Opal, 2000, UMOO, Snow, Necro, Forest, Club, Aussie, Our, Strange Brew, Flame, Down, Wacky, Plow, Eden, Apocalypse, Virtual, MMD, World, CompuCraze, Elder, Anti, Quest, and Inter)
• A pageful of PMC MOOers (My first MOO, and still my sentimental favorite of them all)
• Humbert Humbert's Lambda MOO pages (Includes a pageful of Lambda MOOers. Arguably America's favorite MOO despite heavy-duty lag and a host of other quirks.)

The mooer most special of them all to me... Tess

A MOO friend asked me, "What's a Caille_Bot?"

My favorite radio programs and stations

• The Midnight Special on WFMT --Folk music, farce, and a bunch of other things
• WBEZ --includes links to the pages of many public radio programs
• WXRT --Chicago's leading progressive rock station
• WHPK --College radio at its finest--now celebrating its 50th anniversary
• Garrison Keillor on public radio
• CBC Sunday Morning

Links to information about Chicago

• The City of Chicago homepage
• CityNet's Chicago page
• The Chicago Transit Authority homepage (unofficial)
• The official CTA homepage
• Links to various web servers in Chicago
• The Tribune --The city's principal daily paper
• The Sun-Times --The city's other daily paper
• The Reader --The city's major alternative weekly
• New City --The city's other alternative weekly
• The Chicago Artists Net --See recent works by Chicago artists online
• The Chicago Symphony --One of America's leading symphony orchestras
• The Metropolitan Planning Council --The major citizen planning organization for the region
• Channel 7 --Local news headlines, _et al._
• Channel 11 --Public television in Chicago
• North Federal Savings Bank --One of the last bastions of free checking in Chicago. That's why I bank there

(See the movie section for links to the sites of Chicago movie theaters and film societies)

Universities I have known

• University of Chicago
• University of Illinois at Chicago

One of my other major passions: Movies

• The Internet Movie Database
• Cinema Sites
• The Doc Films page --Schedules and other info for the legendary University of Chicago film society
• Girls on Film
• FilmZone
• The Music Box --One of Chicago's premier theaters for specialty films
• The Reel --The place to order that hard-to-get movie on video
• The Village --Quality second- and late first-run films at an affordable price
• Chicago Filmmakers --Classes, and screenings unduplicated anywhere else
• Facets Multimedia --Great specialty films, and hard-to-get videos

A few of my best posts to Cybermind

• On being buzzed by a butterfly
• On what I think of all sorts of checks in chat rooms
• The most ironic thing I ever wrote about the net and me
• A Children's story for the Internet era
• Foods for netsurfers
• More food for netsurfers
• On sexual orientation in moospace
• On sexual harassment in moospace
• On my life as a mooer
• More on my life as a mooer
• On the anniversary of my discovery of the net
• On mooicide and those left behind
• On a close encounter with a clueless newbie
• More from the newbie
• I review a movie with something to say about cyberspace
• On my first anniversary as a mooer
• On my second anniversary on Cybermind
• On the Perfect Squelch --they don't make flames like that on the net anymore, not that they ever did

Aids to making your own homepage

• A Beginner's Guide to HTML
• Yahoo WWW Guide - a good place to start!
• Lynx homepage
• HTML Stuff --more useful resources, from Canada
• Colors for your page's background and links

This is one homepage you can set your watch by

• U.S. Naval Observatory time --some readouts require a Netscape browser
• Time Zone Converter

Links to selected resources on various things that intrigue me

• Cats (especially since I don't have any pictures of my own cats)
• Rapid transit
• The Stars Our Destination --My favorite science fiction bookstore
• Radical sexuality
• The CBC
• Coffee
• Paganism
• Doctor Who
• Desire Magazine --Interesting articles on things erotic, from England
• Bagels
• Civil liberties
• Xena
• Seattle's Best Coffee --I had some, and was very impressed. And, they have a homepage
• The BBC
• Polyamory
• The Annals of Improbable Research --the lighter side of science
• Another link to the mini-AIR archives --also includes its precursor e-zine, the Mini_Journal of Irreproducible Results
• More on paganism
• Public television
• Amazons
• Critical criminology
• Bisexuality
• Long distance relationships
• Feminist science fiction
• Body modification
• Prisoner: Cell Block H --The cult soap from Australia
• Mystery Science Theater 3000
• Clinical depression
• Reticulo-endothelial disease
• Little Suzy's Slippery When Wet --an interestingly different approach to things erotic
• Sage Lunsford's Words of the Tyrtle
• Outta Sights & Sounds --great music in central New Jersey
• Days Of Our Lives --NBC's page
• Days Of Our Lives --Dustin's page
• Coredump --a new e-zine from the creators of Aurora MUD
• Yoga
• Urban Desires --any interactive mag with "Urban" in its name can't be all bad to an urban sociologist :-)
• The Old Town School of Folk Music --coming soon: a website for the Chicago folk scene's most venerable institutions
• The Twigs
• Transgenderism
• Sessions at West 54th
• Body Electric
• Carolyn's House of Music --A site on independent music

Visit again often--new stuff will be on the way soon!

URL: http://www.prairienet.org/~mapravat/homepage.html