Nardoni, Joseph: - Joe Nardoni is a dreamer, activist, poet, professor, step and adoptive father, grandfather 5x over, wool-gatherer, vegetable picker, eye popper, egg-dropper, bee-bopper, tree-topper, paint glopper, bottle stopper and floor mopper, who once ate French Brie while in Wisconsin; drank California Cabernet on the Left Bank; ate blue ox steak in a diner outside of Elko, Nevada; stole a salmon from a Grizzly Bear; sank Mike Fink's barge; cut Pecos Bill's lasso, setting the tornado free; played matchmaker for Cyrano de Bergerac and J. Alfred Prufrock; gave the typewriter to the chimp who wrote all of Shakespeare's plays; and whose formative experience as a writer occurred when he was hiking in shorts through a field of poison oak in Nicene Marks State Park in Santa Cruz, CA, where he became psychedelically aware for the first time, "the first," of the great interconnectedness of the universe-and didn't develop a rash.