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Evan Cantrell, AIA

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About Me

I'm originally from Pilgrims Knob, VA where I attended Whitewood High School. After high school I attended Virginia Tech and graduated with a degree in architecture. I've since worked for the Troyer Group in Harrisonburg, VA, HLM Design in Orlando, FL, and I currently work for Neal Prince + Partners Architects in Greenville, SC where I've been for the past six years. I recently completed my ARE exams, and I am now a licensed architect in the state of South Carolina.My wonderful wife's name is Lisa and we have two amazing boys, Ethan and Connor.I have a blog called Chipped Ham Productions where I talk about my favorite form of entertainment, comics, and other pop culture types of things. I also share a blog with my wife called Snips, Snails & Puppy Dogs Tails where we mostly post pictures of our boys.

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My Interests

Books, Comics, DVDs, Movies and TV.

I'd like to meet:

Old friends and new.

Music:

Clutch, Foo Fighters, Gavin DeGraw, Johnny Cash, Keith Urban, Live, The Police and Sara Evans. I have fairly mixed tastes.

Movies:

Batman Begins, Fight Club, Goodfellas, The Incredibles, Iron Man, Office Space, The Prestige, Raising Arizona, Serenity, Spider-Man 1 & 2, Superman Returns, Transformers and X-Men 1-3.

Television:

Anything Joss Whedon is associated with and Battlestar Galactica, Deadwood, Heroes, House, Lost, My Name Is Earl, The Office and Veronica Mars to name a few.

Books:

Neil Gaiman, Brad Meltzer and Greg Rucka's novels. Comics by Brian Michael Bendis, Ed Brubaker, Warren Ellis, Geoff Johns, Brad Meltzer, Greg Rucka, Brian K. Vaughan, etc.

My Blog

TIME TO VENT!

Have you ever had one of those days (or weekends in this case) where nothing goes the way you hoped or planned? Well, that pretty much sums up the weekend that Lisa and I had.We had been looking forwa...
Posted by Evan Cantrell, AIA on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:07:00 PST

LOST: THE ECONOMIST - SPOILERS

WTF!?!  In the flashfoward, Sayid is now killing people for Ben in order to protect the rest of the Oceanic Six!This show just continues to blow my mind!...
Posted by Evan Cantrell, AIA on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 05:06:00 PST

ETHAN’S NEW WORD OF THE DAY

Ethan created a new word last night - commerate. While looking for a box he could make his 'treasure chest', he asked if I could 'commerate' some of my stuff so that he could have an empty box. When I...
Posted by Evan Cantrell, AIA on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 07:33:00 PST

CLOSE CALL

We had a terrifying experience this past Friday night. Our youngest son, Connor, had an allergic reaction and went into anaphlatic (sp?) shock. Connor is allergic to eggs, milk and peanuts, so we are...
Posted by Evan Cantrell, AIA on Mon, 21 Jan 2008 08:51:00 PST

FIRST POST OF 08

To start off the year I was planning on doing an extensive breakdown of the number of comics and trades that I read this past year, much like I did for the year before, but I don't really think anyone...
Posted by Evan Cantrell, AIA on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 06:48:00 PST

LONG TIME COMIN’

I can't believe that it has been since October that I posted last.  A lot of things factor into that, but it mostly comes down to lack of motivation and the general hustle and bustle of life and ...
Posted by Evan Cantrell, AIA on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 01:43:00 PST

Spider-Pumpkin

It has been a long while since my last blog, but I just had to share this.  My office had a pumpkin carving contest this past Friday, and I was fairly pleased with the way my pumpkin turned out.A...
Posted by Evan Cantrell, AIA on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 01:39:00 PST

COMICS SHIPPING 08/15/07

While there are a few trades from Marvel that I'll be adding to my wishlist, DC dominates my list this week.DC COMICSAction Comics 854, $2.99 - (Ordered) Crossing over with Countdown, Jimmy Olsen's st...
Posted by Evan Cantrell, AIA on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 05:07:00 PST

MIKE WIERINGO PASSES AWAY

According to Newsarama, Mike Wieringo passed away yesterday of a sudden heart attack at the age of 44. I've been a fan of Wieringo's work since his days on The Flash with Mark Waid. I've had the pleas...
Posted by Evan Cantrell, AIA on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 08:28:00 PST

MARTHA WASHINGTON DIES (AND ROBBED ME IN THE PROCESS)

It isn't often that I post something negative about a book, but I just feel the need to complain about a comic I read last night. The comic in question is the one-shot Martha Washington Dies published...
Posted by Evan Cantrell, AIA on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 09:03:00 PST