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About Me

I am recently engaged to my wonderful Anna. We have a lot of fun together, mostly just hanging out, watching movies, tv, going to bookstores together, etc. I work as a graphic artist and I also do some writing on the side. Some of my practice writings are in the blogs above. They are okay, but eventually I hope to get to work on a novel. Just waiting for the right idea to come along.

My Interests

Literature, philosophy, crazy ethnic foods, history, photography, theology, linguistics, comedy, video games, cinema, and montages. I love a good montage. Gets me every time.

I'd like to meet:

Charles Barkley, Christopher Moore, Dave Barry, Neil Gaiman, Cormac McCarthy, Wes Anderson, etc.

Music:

Red Hot Chili Peppers, At the Drive-in, The Sword, Mastodon, Black Crowes, Hank Williams (all of them), Old 97s, Massive Attack, The Cure, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, and lots more...

Movies:

Paris Texas, Raising Arizona, The Godfather, Seven Samurai, Being There, The Fearless Vampire Killers, All the Real Girls, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, Wizards, Dead Man, Fargo, Lonesome Dove, The Life Aquatic, and so many more that I can't list them all...

Television:

King of the Hill, Family Guy, History Channel, The Wire, PBS, so on and so forth... ..

Books:

Confederacy of Dunces, all of Christopher Moore's books, Daniel Quinn, Kerouac, Hunter S. Thompson, Carl Hiaasen, Larry McMurtry, and I'll read pretty much anything else - I like lots of stuff. ..

Heroes:

Jack Kerouac, Norman Mailer, Kurt Vonnegut, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Edward Gorey, Jim Henson y mas... ..

My Blog

Burton Latimer and surrounding villages

These are the pictures from mine and Anna's trip to England and France. There were so many pictures that I have split them into separate blog posts for ease of navigation.The first couple days we were...
Posted by terry neil on Fri, 19 Sep 2008 03:54:00 PST

Two Days in Paris

These are the pictures from mine and Anna's trip to England and France. There were so many pictures that I have split them into separate blog posts for ease of navigation.On Tuesday, we took the train...
Posted by terry neil on Fri, 19 Sep 2008 03:53:00 PST

Warwick Castle

These are the pictures from mine and Anna's trip to England and France. There were so many pictures that I have split them into separate blog posts for ease of navigation.On Thursday we went to Warwic...
Posted by terry neil on Fri, 19 Sep 2008 03:51:00 PST

Oxford and Stonehenge

These are the pictures from mine and Anna's trip to England and France. There were so many pictures that I have split them into separate blog posts for ease of navigation.On Friday we took a pretty lo...
Posted by terry neil on Fri, 19 Sep 2008 03:49:00 PST

Imperial War Museum - Duxford

These are the pictures from mine and Anna's trip to England and France. There were so many pictures that I have split them into separate blog posts for ease of navigation.On Saturday my grandfather to...
Posted by terry neil on Fri, 19 Sep 2008 03:46:00 PST

Window Unit 3

Her name was Lila, by the way. I don't know if I had made that clear. An unusual name for a girl, but her parents were kind of unusual. Not hippies exactly, but the kids that came after the hippy gene...
Posted by terry neil on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 06:23:00 PST

I am an uncle

Saturday night, Leah had her baby. Kaleb Neil McCarthy was a little over 7 lbs. and 19 inches long. So congratulations to Kevin and Leah. But congratulations to me too. I'm an uncle for the first time...
Posted by terry neil on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 08:26:00 PST

Are the Mammoths Racist?

The life of a voyeur presents numerous little mysteries. Now, in real life you never get dragged into harrowing murder plots, like in such cinematic masterpieces as Rear Window or Men at Work, but if ...
Posted by terry neil on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 10:01:00 PST

Before Your Time

Okay, background:I was recently at the grocery store in Tyler with my grandmother, who had to pick up some things, yada yada. Anyways, we're standing in line, I'm minding my own business, glancing sid...
Posted by terry neil on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:14:00 PST

Window Unit 2

The cold hour before dawn was winding to its close, as the sky turned from dark purple to gunmetal grey. The soft lighting of a cloudy sunrise illuminated a small clearing in a deep, old oak forest. I...
Posted by terry neil on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 12:20:00 PST