LOCATION
Washington, DC

HOMETOWN
Born in Maryland

OCCUPATION
Editor, Writer

FAVORITE MUSIC
Frank Black (Pixies), Local H, Ramones, Supersuckers, Liz Phair, Modest Mouse, Fountains Of Wayne, Violent Femmes, The Beach Boys, Sonic Youth, Nirvana, REM, Ween, The White Stripes, Cheap Trick, Kim Deal, Green Day, Weezer, Dave Clark Five, The Monkees, Kiss, The Jesus And Mary Chain, Starflyer 59, blah, blah, blah…

FAVORITE MOVIES Three O'Clock High, Goodfellas, Reservoir Dogs, Hoop Dreams, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Laws of Gravity, The Karate Kid, Office Space, SUCKERS, Dazed and Confused, Fargo, Anchorman…

FAVORITE AUTHOR/BOOKS
Flannery O'Connor (most works); Bret Easton Ellis – American Psycho, Glamorama; Rick Moody – The Ice Storm; Tom Wolfe – Bonfire of the Vanities, A Man in Full; Jonathan Franzen – The Corrections; Don DeLillo – Underworld; Jay McInerney – Bright Lights, Big City; J.D. Salinger (I wonder which one…); The Bible; The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band – Neil Strauss and Mötley Crüe; Who Killed Kurt Cobain? The Mysterious Death of an Icon – Ian Halperin, Max Wallace; Job's Body – Deane Juhan… and some others

FAVORITE TV
Cheers, Newhart, The Wonder Years, Family Ties, The Sopranos, Saturday Night Live, It's Your Move, Get a Life, Sledge Hammer!, VH1's Behind The Music, City Confidential (R.I.P. Paul Winfield), Autopsy (and most forensic-type crap), Discovery Channel-related shows, most educational and news channels…

FAVORITE ANYTHING ELSE
Boxing, Chris Farley, Will Farrell, big cats, reading, listening, sleeping, eating, learning about spirituality, www.maxboxing.com, www.allmusic.com, philosophy and, of course, porn.

ADDITIONAL TIDBITS
I'd like to stop liking porn.

CURRENT RAVES
Deconstructing Evangelicalism: Conservative Protestantism in the Age of Billy Graham – D.G. Hart
If Grace Is True: Why God Will Save Every Person – Philip Gulley, James Mulholland
Libra – Don DeLillo
Chopper 2: How to Shoot Friends and Influence People – Mark Brandon Read
Tracks and Fields (Kill Rock Stars)
Sonic Nurse – Sonic Youth

ABOUT Phone Fun
Phone Fun was written in about two months, from March '01 – May '01, with the prologue written in summer '00. I've been fact-checking and editing, in one form or another, ever since. And doing the publisher/agent/Svengali/avatar search as well.