Description I am a Toronto writer and composer/songwriter who makes ends meet as a freelance editor of university textbooks among other things.
My latest song is an updated version of an older, pro-individualism song of mine, “Strength in Numbers.”
I have put up a number of musical YouTube videos. There is now one for the song named above, as well as another recent one of a song called “From Montreal North to New York City.” My most recent one is “The Hypercomplex Mind of Rodney Rawlings (Non-Mathematician!)”
I have some small claims to “Objectivist fame.” The first is my own early thinking. Years before discovering Ayn Rand in my teens, I was in my bedroom wondering about words and their definitions. And I remember the moment when I said to myself, “What you do is, you take the ideas in the distinguishing things about the word, and leave out the measurements.” Years later, I encountered this identification in Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology.
Another is that Ayn Rand once approached me in a Green Room crowd at the Ford Hall Forum and spoke to me, asking if I had a pen. I stammered that I did not. There had been people between us, but the crowd had parted suddenly and there she was. I’ve often wondered whether she singled me out.
Finally, using Rand’s epistemological approach, I recently discovered hypercomplex numbers completely on my own. I have since learned that there are many types of hypercomplex numbers; but because of the way I reasoned, I suspect that the type I hit upon has some special significance yet to be noted.
My step-grandson is Ashley Parker Angel, currently starring on Broadway. Before that he had his own reality show on MTV titled There & Back: Ashley Parker Angel. It was their No. 1 show at the time!
Older posts of mine were made under the screen names rodney and wtc4fr.
My Music on RoR
There are nine or so pieces of my music posted at, or linked from, RoR (this site). If interested, you could probably find them easily with a search. The titles are:
- Halley’s Comet
- When Matter Touches Antimatter
- Reconstruction on Ground Zero (The site Rebuild the Towers asked my permission to use this on their home page, which I granted, feeling quite honored)
Songs from my musical play The Watcher on the Shore:
- Come Down, O Maid / You Make Me Mad (based on a Tennyson poem from his The Princess)
- A Girl and a Boy
- To Venus and Mars
- When a Mountain Gets Lots of Snowfall
- I’d Like to Welcome Everyone / Lighthouse Jubilee
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