Born in North Dakota, live in FL, and traveled allover. I drink beer and like to cook good food. I also like jalapeños.
As for my writing influences: Kurt Vonnegut, Stephen King, and Tom Robbins are all authors that have entertained me completely and influenced my writing over the years. I have a love/hate relationship with the writing of Dean Koontz as I find his plots to be either engaging or extremely campy. Heart of Darkness
is one of my favorite books of all time; the movie it inspired was pretty good too.
As for authors I have met personally: David Sedaris was probably the coolest. He took the time to make eye contact with everyone and signed books for every single person that came to see him. There were a lot. And some had literally bags of his books. The line was so long that despite the No Indoor Smoking policy the staff allowed him to puff a few Kools while signing. Garrison Keillor and Jim Carroll were also very cool and kind and personable. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was kind of a jackass, but he signed my book. And I was fortunate enough to be a part of an organization which hosted a dinner for Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of the United States.
An amazing, brilliant man with a handshake like a vise grip.
Things I like in alphabetical order: aardvarks, absinthe, acting, anything that’s freshanpoppin, art, bazaars, blogging, books, booze, brunch, cafe gardens, cartoons, cat attack videos, celeb reality, chai, checkerboards, chess, cigarettes, coffee, collecting, comic books, concerts, cooking, customs, dice, drawing bizarre comics, environmental science, esquire, festivals, fiction, finishing the crossword, food, gainesville, gaming, gator football, hari-krishna-lunches-in-the-plaza, hole-in-the-wall-restaurants, horror, independent bookstores, jukejoints, letters in the mail, lunacy, movies, philosophy, playing ‘cranium’ completely loaded, playing guitar, poetry, poker, politics, postmodern thought, pragmatism, psychedalia, psychology, reality tv, rehab, religion, road trippin, salmon, satire, shopping, signs, slices of life, social issues, speculative fiction, stinky cheese, sudoku, surrealism, the ‘60s, tofurkey, traveling, trivial pursuit, UF, volunteer work, weasels, wine, writing
Comment Crashing I find to be both useful and entertaining…
I like people who inspire me and have stories to tell. As I believe them to be, the three virtues of writing are: Transformation, Liberation, and Celebration.
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