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Jim Stratton has been fascinated by the oddness of our world in space all his life. Among his estimated 8,000 news interviews over his years as a reporter in the 1970's were three Presidents of the United States, two Beatles, three heads of state, and eight newsmakers who have been assassinated. However, he never dated a fashion model, nor a physicist. He's written 350+ newspaper columns, hitchhiked an estimated 17,000 miles, spent 18 years as a reform Democratic District Leader in Manhattan, made several short art films, and opened four iconic bars (Grassroots and Puffy's in Manhattan, Bar Bayeux in Brooklyn, and The Maple Leaf Bar in New Orleans). He is also an accomplished palindromist. Jim was one of the very early loft-tenants in both SoHo (1968) and Tribeca (1974). His first published book, Pioneering in the Urban Wilderness, was an account of the sweat-equity conversions of commercial buildings by artists in a dozen cities across the U.S. If these experiences don't qualify him to recognize oddness, nothing does. Jim has four adult children, three grandchildren, and now lives with his wife of forty years (and two schnauzers) in an idyllic small town in Upstate New York.