michaelrmatheson

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Bio

Good Day Fellow Travelers: Captain Hank Quinlan graduated from a university in Illinois with a BA in British and American literature and a minor in radio and television. Hence, the penchant for literary quotations, shopworn clichés, the many references to movie quotes, and the odd arcane turn of phrase. The Good Captain became a video cameraman, lighting director, and videotape editor in Chicago from 1973 to 1979. He then received a big break, recruited by a then major post-production facility, to relocate with family, all expenses paid, to toil happily in the motion picture industry in Hollywood, California. The Good Captain specialized in telecine color correction, at the time composed of a very, very small coterie of individuals versed in the operation of the then-nascent, mysterious hybrid analog/digital technology. Halcyon Days, the Captain et al. could name their price for services rendered. Captain Q. color timed motion pictures to analog videotape then digital videotape for Universal, MGM, and a smattering of Warner Brothers films from 1979 to 1994. These were cash-rich times for the Industry and those working in it. Captain Q. suffered acute personal reversals. Dumbfounded, tired, physically and emotionally exhausted, our Good Captain was deigned to wander in the desert of Purgatorio for his sins… mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. For his sins, Captain Q. wandered back to Illinois. Mirabile dictu (wonderful to relate) he became a man of purpose once again. Northern Illinois offered a very limited choice of occupation. Captain Q. became a step-down ICU RN from 2000 to 2008. Retired, Captain Qs interests remain liberal arts, motion pictures, and life sciences. He tinkers in restoring and repairing antique radios. The Good Captain lives in SaddleBrooke, Arizona a far northern suburb of Tucson. Enough said.