: About Me

I'm just this guy, you know?

I write for the same reason I read; because I enjoy it. I like the way words create worlds, and the way that we can express in words things that push the boundaries of what we can grasp. I love paradoxes. I'm suspicious of Aristotelianism - I'll go into that maybe somewhere else, this isn't the place.

I'm extremely happily married to a wonderful woman named Lynn. We don't yet have children, although we do have child-substitutes: three dogs, conveniently available in small, medium, and large; and three cats. We live a life Thoreau would envy in the boondocks of South Georgia.

My interests are diverse, to put it mildly. I write trivia quizzes, cryptic crosswords, and logic problems for fun. I'm fascinated by people. I watch too much TV.

My passion is ...

language

I know too much about ...

nothing - how much is too much?

My parents always told me ...

they would support me. And they have.

My childhood ambition ...

was to be a veterinarian.

My favorite memory ...

as corny as this is, my wedding day. Altogether now, awww.

Why I write ...

like Mallory's mountain: because it's there, dude.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

VH1. It's like MTV for grown-ups.

My first job ...

was working with pigs. Hey, it's good prep for Congress.

My best moment ...

(see favorite memory) yeah, the "I do"s. Big big day for me.

My inspiration ...

it's my wife, you know.

Pets & Animals > Animal Rights & Issues The problem with Hollywood making a dog breed popular

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Let's get one thing straight at the outset: life ain't like the movies. In the movies nobody ever uses the bathroom, unless they have hilarious bowel problems. Nobody ever hiccups, except under the influence of a magic spell or to set up a shock later on that cures them. Nobody forgets what they were going to say, unless they're so consumed by love or lust that there are no words. And cute dogs are just that - cute. Even if their foibles are put on display front and center - Beethoven, I'm looking at you - they're shown as light-hearted comic things. And at the end of the movie, maybe a co...

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