About Me

  • About Me: Partially hydrogenated hypo-allergenic tomato sauce

Music

  • Favorite Artists: Queen, Jethro Tull, Monte Montgomery, WolfMother, The Darkness, ELO, Steve Vai, Frank Zappa
  • Favorite Albums: Too close to call
  • Favorite Genre: Classic Rock
  • Favorite Songs: "Prophet's Song" - Queen; "Bad Horsie" - Steve Vai
  • Favorite Lyrics: "My Goddess here, my darkest fear, I speak too Late. It's forever more that I wait." From "White Queen" by Queen
  • Songs for Roadtrips: "Knucklebones"- David Lee Roth "Tie Your Mother Down" - Queen "Aqualung" - Jethro Tul "Fire Garden" (entire album) - Steve Vai
  • Songs I hate: Sorry. Damn near anything by Led Zeppelin
  • Guilty Pleasure: None
  • Songs I repeat the most: "Tie Your Mother Down" - Queen
  • Band I wish I was in: None

Food

  • Favorite Cuisine: Meat
  • Favorite Dishes: Meat with some kind of sauce
  • Favorite Desserts: Meat
  • Favorite Drinks: Water, Guinness, Scotch, Dr. Pepper
  • Favorite Junk Foods: Chips -- usually with some meat or cheese on them
  • Best meal ever: Corned Beef and Cabbage
  • My Original Recipes: Homemade Guinness Meat Pie
  • Favorite Restaurants: Arby's. Coz there's meat.
  • Foods I hate: Domestic Beer and things that aren't meat

Style

  • Where I shop: Where stuff is.
  • Brands I love: Brands?
  • I like to wear: Clothes.
  • Can't live without: Food, water and shelter.
  • Prized Possessions: The love of my dog.
  • Guilty Pleasure: Guilt is a wasted emotion.

More About Me

  • Nicknames: None.
  • Nationality: Proud American
  • Religion: Lutheran if anyone cares. Coz I certainly don't care what religion anybody else is.
  • Heroes: My parents; George Washington; Theodore Roosevelt; H.P. Lovecraft; Rudyard Kipling; anyone with the stomach to do necessary animal testing on small, cuddly animals.
  • Interests: Hockey, Gaming, Comic Books, Writing, Reading, Outdoor Fun; let's not forget the most time-sucking detraction of all: online gaming; Norse and Icelandic Saga.
  • Expertise: Literature and Music (theory to be specific -- not useless information about some garage band in Black Branch West Virginia, population 17); Unfortunately, I also know way too much about the flooring industry. Please, Lord, help me forget about the next generation of carpet fibre and its five carbon polymer construction.
  • Occupation: Struggling writer. Well, drowning? Dying? Certainly not starving.
  • Industry: Flooring. Flooring. Flooring. Gah -- and...Flooring.
  • Website: Yes, please.

Books

  • Favorite Books: Too many to list; this could comprise several blogs.
  • Favorite Authors: H.P. Lovecraft; Andre Dubus; Mark Twain; John Milton.
  • Favorite Genres: Wow....Anything really. I'm really into non-fiction at the moment. I would LOVE to find some really good (new) fantasy, but find most fantasy authors unreadable.
  • Favorite Characters: Belial (Paradise Lost); Samson (Samson Agonistes).
  • Favorite Quotes: "Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind. And the oldest and strongest kind of fear, is fear of the unknown. The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity and it was not meant that we should voyage far." -- H.P. Lovecraft (from memory, so I hope I didn't jack it up). "Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem." --John Galsworthy "When Man evolved pity, he did a queer thing -- deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different." --John Galsworthy
  • Recent Reads: "Guns, Germs and Steel." -- Jared Diamond