So...What Do You Want To Know?

 

Born in: New York

Lives in: Cedar Creek, Texas (a town about to be overrun as Austin sprawls eastward)
Personal stuff: Married to Nell. Four-year old son, Jake. Two dogs, Gatsby and Daisy. Three cats. Three horses. It's an interesting household.

Education: Eight years with the Jesuits, four of them getting a degree in Government from Georgetown University.

Hobbies: Trying to teach myself how to play a dobro without making the cats think I'm torturing one of their brethren

Addictions: Distance running

Extravagances: Single Malt Scotch

Heaven is... Either a starlit night on the beach at Coco Point, Barbuda in the West Indies or a Robert Earl Keen show at Gruene Hall with a bottomless cooler of Shiner Bock.
The jury's still out.


Hell is... Lubbock.*

 

On the night table: Dubliners (James Joyce), god is not Great (Christopher Hitchens), Everyday Drinking (Kingsley Amis), The Last Picture Show (Larry McMurtry)

 


On the iPod: The aforementioned Mr. Keen, Gillian Welch, James McMurtry, Patty Griffin, Bruce Springsteen, The Connells, Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle, among others


Favorite books: This Side of Paradise (F.Scott Fitzgerald), The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Robert A. Caro), Green Eggs and Ham (Dr. Seuss)


Favorite movies: Being There, Casablanca, Bull Durham

Couldn't have said it better myself: "Whether your final destination is heaven or hell, first you have to change planes in Dallas/Fort Worth." -Kinky Friedman

 

 

*no deliberation necessary.