9 Songs, 2046, Addams Family Values, Alien, Amadeus, Amazon Women on the Moon, The Appointments of Dennis Jennings, Aria (1987), Army of Darkness, Batman Begins, Being John Malkovich, The Big Lebowski, Boarding Gate, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Brazil, A Clockwork Orange, Crash (1996), Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Dario Argento movies, Eat Drink Man Woman, Ed Wood, The Empire Strikes Back, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Evil Dead 2, Excalibur, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Flash Gordon (1980), The Fountain, grindhouse movies, Hammer horror movies, Heathers, Henry and June, Highlander, His Girl Friday, Hot Fuzz, Hulk (2003), Irma Vep, Iron Man, Kentucky Fried Movie, Kill Bill, The Lives of Others, Lost in Translation, Malena, Mario Bava movies, The Matrix, Monty Python movies, My Best Fiend, The Ninth Gate, Once Upon a Time in the West, One Soldier, Other People's Money, The Princess Bride, Pulp Fiction, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Red Violin, Secretary, Serenity, Shaun of the Dead, The Silence of the Lambs, Solaris (2002), Spirited Away, Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan, Star Wars, This Is Spinal Tap, Tombs of the Blind Dead, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Television
The Adventures of Pete and Pete, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Anthony Bourdain No Reservations, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Arrested Development, Battlestar Galactica (new), Blackadder, Boston Legal, Cowboy Bebop, CSI (Las Vegas), Doctor Who, Firefly, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, Hex, House, Invader Zim, Iron Chef, Jonathan Creek, Justice League Unlimited, Looney Tunes, Macabre Theater, Max Headroom, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Mythbusters, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Penn and Teller Bullshit, The Prisoner, Robot Chicken, South Park, Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Star Trek TOS, The Venture Brothers, The X Files, Yes Minister, Yes Prime Minister
Books
AUTHORS: Ray Bradbury, Poppy Z. Brite, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Harlan Ellison, Neil Gaiman, Robert Heinlein, H.P. Lovecraft, Haruki Murakami, Kurt Vonnegut, Kathe Koja, Gore Vidal, Mario Vargas Llosa, Milan Kundera, Tom Stoppard, Jonathan Lethem, Kim Addonizio, Hunter S. Thompson, H.L. Mencken, Thomas Harris, Anthony Bourdain, Charles Bukowski, Henry Miller, Ayn Rand
FICTION: My Girlfriend Comes to the City and Beats Me Up (Stephen Elliott), Created in Darkness By Troubled Americans (various), We (Yevgeny Zamyatin), The Club Dumas (Arturo Perez-Reverte), The Devil's Dictionary (Ambrose Bierce), The Stone Canal (Ken MacLeod), Anno Dracula (Kim Newman)
NON-FICTION: The Fatal Conceit, Law Legislation and Liberty (both by Friedrich Hayek), Anarchy State and Utopia, Invariances, Philosophical Explanations (all by Robert Nozick), The Machinery of Freedom (David D. Friedman), Capitalism and Freedom (Milton Friedman), The Armchair Economist (Steven Landsburg), Tao Te Ching (Laozi), In Praise of Commercial Culture (Tyler Cowen), The Selfish Gene (Richard Dawkins), Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Freedom Evolves (both by Daniel Dennett), The Ethics (Spinoza), On the Genealogy of Morals (Nietzsche)
COMICS: anything by Paul Pope, Watchmen, Hate, Dork, Milk and Cheese, Sandman, Transmetropolitan, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, Squee, Lenore, GloomCookie, The Book of Bunny Suicides, Crying Freeman, Iron Wok Jan, Sorcerer Hunters, Lio, Peanuts, Mutts, Calvin and Hobbes
Auburn University Main Campus
Auburn University, ALABAMA
Graduated: 1993
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Political science, economics
Minor: History
Clubs: The Auburn Circle (staff writer/editor), Pi Sigma Alpha (political science honor society)
1990 to 1993
Athens High School
Athens, ALABAMA
Graduated: 1990
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
Clubs: National Honor Society, Beta Club, scholar's bowl, newspaper (Scan-It), yearbook, literary magazine (The Amulet), marching and concert band (freshman year), student council, sophomore class president
Do you really want to know? Can your heart stand the shocking facts taken from the secret testimony of the poor souls who survived? Wait. Never mind. There were no survivors.
We are what we do. I write. Mostly, however, I stare at a computer screen and think about writing.
I keep a LiveJournal. Most of the interesting stuff happens there. Also, most of the boring stuff happens there. My LJ is "friends only," so only about three people read it.
For about six years, I wrote a weekly newspaper column called Pulp Culture, dealing mostly with sci-fi, horror, and comic books. I now write a column called Culture Shock, which is a mix of politics and pop culture. And this is an article I wrote in 2005 for Reason magazine, one of the 50 Best Magazines in the nation.
