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StrangeTango.com is a multilayered art installation in cyberspace…the documentation of a life in three iterations: as a film treatment, a book, a blog.
“What remains as documentation of a life?”
Strange Tango haunts the boundaries of digital streams and visceral storytelling, where pixels and dreams flow together.
Video, reportage, and nonlinear narrative meld in captured moments from the life of A. D. Tejada, artist - traveler - citizen of the world.
Life is a strange tango...
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 Moulton Brown's New Age Traveler kit
New Age Traveler is an excerpt from Millennium Muse, my book of narrative nonfiction, essays, and observations.
My favorite travel agent booked me for automatic electronic upgrades to first class, so on two round trip legs between Manchester, New Hampshire, and Chicago, air travel was sheer bliss. On the second trip, I gave my seat to my father, who had joined me. He was pleased with the personalized service, comfortable seating, and the meal of fried rice, lechon (pieces of roasted whole pig), and wine.
I fly first class as an upgrade whenever possible, usually paying $50 per leg for an upgrade ticket, but complementary is always nice. I’ve done well cultivating longstanding relationships that offer value-added benefits with products and services.
I’ve traveled to at least thirty-five countries on five continents. These days, it’s leisure travel for me, with stays at some of the finest hotels in the world. However, my travel habits have remained the same. Unless I’m on a cruise ship where I don’t have to unpack more than once, I keep things simple. Continue reading New Age Traveler
 Our home in Windham, New Hampshire Nest is an excerpt from Millennium Muse, my book of narrative nonfiction, essays, and observations.
Except for the house in Somerville, which Joseph bought with our best man at our wedding as the first real estate project for flipping, I have always located the properties and negotiated the purchase of the houses we’ve called home.
I found the three-family Victorian in Savin Hill, a gentrified neighborhood of Boston. We placed an offer the day after I saw the dwelling in a real estate ad and was inspired to drive to the other side of town to see the property. The house looked like a castle. It had a turret, and the exterior had light yellow, vinyl siding. The property was minutes away from the Savin Hill train station, close enough so that I could cycle to the beach and ocean and smell the sea breeze from my porch in the morning.
We stayed at Auckland Street far longer than we ever planned. This was in part because Joseph’s parents lived in one of the units. Each day, his father took the train to Chinatown where he would read a newspaper in Cantonese and socialize with his elderly friends all day before returning home for dinner. Continue reading Nest
Jerome Tse is a student in the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration. Originally from Boston, Jerome plans to obtain a degree in hospitality. He is also a Cornell ambassador and enjoys working at the front office of the university-run Statler Hotel. I have known Jerome’s father professionally for several years and recall the photographs of [...]
Jack Hunsucker was my debate coach at Lawton High School in Lawton, Oklahoma. He fielded award-winning debaters, speakers, and orators on the high school and National Forensic League circuit and later became a drama coach. Thanks to my debate instructors, I became the first place women’s extemporaneous speaker in our NFL tri-state region. In retirement, Jack has taken on the role of author with his homespun and sensible, everyman observations. In his guest column, Jack shares his passion for teaching.
 Jack Hunsucker, teacher and writer. “I have done many things during my life. Student, sailor, pop salesman, radio/tv repairman, real estate agent, real estate broker, teacher, computor software salesman, parent, and husband. My life has been a series of discoveries, “Well here’s something else I don’t want to do.” ~ Jack Hunsucker
When I became a teacher, I honestly had not a clue as to what to do. I did have one principal belief. That was that no one is capable of teaching anyone anything that they don’t wish to learn. I understood that my challenge was to make my subject matter relevant and interesting, but I wasn’t sure how to accomplish that. I knew that my own life had been turned around by my experiences in the theatre, but I honestly couldn’t put my finger on the element that had made the difference. Continue reading Passion for Teaching
“The next step is sharing her vision of cyberspace as the next frontier in the literary arts. Says Tejada, “For my collaborators and me, Strange Tango is a labor of love and a global platform for original and passionate creativity.’” ~Raphael Seligmann
Welcome to the world of Strange Tango. Conceptually speaking, the blog before you is an illustration of my thought processes─multilayered and cross-referenced, in a matrix pattern─that places the visitor in the navigational cockpit. Content is layered throughout the website: hover and click on images, text, and links. Continue reading The Key to the Strange Tango Kingdom
 Ron Nance and Whitney Nance Perry of The Oaks Development Company in front of the 2009 Dream House, the Cypress Villa. StrangeTango.com is a literary and conceptual art installation in cyberspace that launched in August 2009 with the theme, “What remains as documentation of a life?” Through my illustrated memoirs, writings, and commentary, I am documenting my life, my friends, and the world we live in. The personal website was featured in a presentation on the innovation wave in the honors business curriculum at a major university, and we’re also submitting the site in consideration for the Webby Award for the best personal websites on the internet. Since the website continues to organically evolve, we plan to add experimental installations in 2010. We are currently revamping the blog and including a new feature that showcases innovators who inspire us with their passion, leadership, and creativity. So, it seems fitting that a childhood friend, Ron Nance, has the honor of being my inaugural interview.
Ron Nance is possibly the best-known public figure in Lawton, Oklahoma—both as a successful businessman and as an ambassador for a city viewed by the national media as a voice of America’s heartland. His civic accomplishments are long and impressive, an integral part of the city’s infrastructure: homebuilder for the ABC hit television program, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Lawton City Councilman, President of the Lawton Home Builders Association, Oklahoma Bison Association President, Director of the National Bison Association, Lawton Airport Authority Board Member, and member of a BRAC (Base Realignment and Closure initiative) Coordination Committee for a regional growth management plan for Lawton and Fort Sill, an adjoining, major military installation.
 Ron and daughter Whitney. Ron is President and CEO of Ron Nance Enterprises, an umbrella corporation for his business interests—including his new real estate developments, collectively known as The Oaks. His daughter, Whitney Nance Perry, has a high profile role as the company’s Vice President of Marketing. Ron also owns and operates Comanche Buffalo, one of the largest, all-natural producers of buffalo meat in North America. Comanche Buffalo supplies natural food stores, national supermarket chains, and Fearing’s at the Ritz-Carlton, Dallas. Owner-chef Dean Fearing, a winner of the James Beard Foundation Restaurant Award for “Best Chef in the Southwest,” calls the buffalo tenderloin from Comanche Buffalo “…the best product I’ve ever dealt with…That buffalo is fork-tender.”
Few people realize that Ron and I are inextricably linked through time and memory. Continue reading Ron Nance, Real Estate Visionary
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