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.
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.*
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