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| Male |
| May 8 1943 |
| Dallas, Texas |
| Born in Galveston, Texas; grew up in Kentucky. Now I live in Dallas, Texas; retired drafter. Single. Heavy reader, doodle in drawing and painting. Restless, making writing difficult as it requires long hours of butt-in-chair. I like working alone, though. I suffer through long periods of writers block, followed by short spells of prolific production. |
| I write in my own voice and edit on the fly in first drafts, then clean up verbal tics and cut out those parts I'm fond of. |
| Existential angst; slice of life drama (with, sometimes, a dose of magical realism). occasional humor or satire. |
| Literature, writing, art, architecture, layman science, philosophy. |
| History, Drama, Hisorical Fiction, Craziness that doesn't fit a genre, Existentialism. |
| No Exit, Nausea, The Stranger, Still Life With Woodpecker, The Iliad, A Confederacy of Dunces, Naked Lunch, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Collected Stories of Carol Shields, The Stories of Anton Checkov, The Stories of Nickolai Gogol, etc. |
| Grant Wood, Tom Robbins, Gogol, Checkov, Carol Shields, John Barth, Ron Chernov, Jack Kerouac, Alan Ginsburg, Walter Isaacson, Jorges Borges, Angela Carter, John Cheever, Alan Watts, Jean-Paul Satre, John Carver, T.C. Boyle, etc. |
| William Carlos Williams, Carl Sandburg, Alan Ginsburg. |
| I have total disregard for all that connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the children smarter, and old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer. -Brendan Behan |
| Both kinds: Rock AND roll. |
| The Artist, No Country for Old Men, Bedazzled (first version), Doubt, Eraserhead, 8-1/2, Fight Club, Pulp Fiction, The Swimmer, Reflections in a Golden Eye. |
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