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The Great American Hack

I carved her up, real nice like. --Floyd Burke

About Me

Due to a clerical error which has yet to be resolved, I have entered into my late thirties. I work in the medical field in Ft. Worth, Texas. I am a writer and have been writing since the second grade. I have written several novels and dozens of short stories in that time. I am currently enrolled in a writing program and my mentor is Bill Pippin, a man who has been publishing in the field since the late-1960's. My latest attempts at selling my work have been met with increasing enthusiasm from various editors and I expect to break into the field during the coming year.

My Interests

Writing; reading; photography; art; psychology; philosophy; history, et cetera.

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Music:

Elliot Smith; The Shins; Gary Numan; David Bowie; The Beatles; The Rolling Stones; Interpol; The Bravery; Feeder; T-Rex; Roxy Music; The Stooges; Iggy Pop; Brian Eno; Velvet Underground; Badfinger; Black Flag; Circle Jerks; The Doors; Bob Dylan; The Clash; The Ramones; Charlotte Martin; PJ Harvey; Wings; U2; Bauhaus; The Verve; Richard Ashcroft; Patti Smith; Henry Rollins; Black Sabbath; Beck; The Flaming Lips; The Butthole Surfers; Nirvana; Stone Temple Pilots; Soundgarden; Jimi Hendrix; The Who; The Grateful Dead; Led Zeppelin; The Killers; Sleater-Kinney; Franz Ferdinand; Broken Social Scene; The Dresden Dolls; The Misfits; The Dead Kennedys; Oasis; The Rosebuds; Mates of State; The Kinks; Scissor Sisters; Smashing Pumpkins; The Jesus and Mary Chain; The Smiths; Radiohead; Travis; Bloodrock; Neil Young; The Dandy Warhols; John Lee Hooker; John Coltrane; Miles Davis; Billie Holiday; The Frogs; The Silver Jews; Rage Against the Machine; Jimmie Rodgers; Johnny Cash; Beethoven; Mozart; Johann Strauss; Gioacchino Rossini; Death in June; Coldplay; Pink Floyd; Blind Faith; Elvis Presley; New York Dolls; MC5; Lou Reed; Pulp; The Pixies; The Posies; Rockers HiFi; The Jim Carroll Band; The Cult; This Mortal Coil; Blondie; The Beastie Boys; The Beach Boys; Adam Ant; The Cure; The Dead 60's; Diana Ross; Al green; Marvin Gaye; The Isley brothers; Santana; Milli Vanilli (just kidding); Veruca Salt; Mike Jones; The Geto Boys; Bushwick Bill; Mike D; Strange Flowers; The Cherrypops; Liquid Vision; Sloan; The Morning Glories; and many others...

Movies:

The Royal Tenenbaums; Rushmore; Bottle Rocket; In the Heat of the Night; The Public Enemy; White Heat; Full Metal Jacket; Pollock; Amelie; Belle Du Jour; Amadeus; Badlands; Frida; I Shot Andy Warhol; Goodfellas; Mean Streets; Taxi Driver; Woodstock; Network; Blood In, Blood Out; Boogie Nights; Apocalypse Now; Y Tu Mama Tambien; The Motorcycle Diaries; Velvet Goldmine; A Clockwork Orange; 2001: A Space Odyssey; The Basketball Diaries; Help!; Let It Be; A Hard Day's Night; The Doors; Platoon; Hedwig and the Angry Inch; Psycho; The Birds; Frenzy; Scarface; Dog Day Afternoon; Cecil B. Demented; Pink Flamingos; Female Trouble; Desperate Living; The Night Porter; Dawn of the Dead; Night of the Living Dead; But I'm a Cheerleader; The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover; The Doom Generation; Nowhere; Easy Rider; A Bronx Tale; Creepshow; Cabaret; Moulin Rouge; Hair; American Beauty; Pulp Fiction; Reservoir Dogs; The Rocky Horror Picture Show; Mad Max; The Wansee Conference; L.I.E.; Trick; Stonewall; Saving Private Ryan; Walk the Line; Donnie Brasco; Vanilla Sky; Abre Los Ojos; Napoleon Dynamite; Mommie Dearest; Lolita; Fight Club; Exorcist; The Stepford Wives (original version); This Boy's Life; This Is Spinal Tap; Tommy; Zoolander; Evita; V For Vendetta; Capote; Jackass the Movie; and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

Television:

Dexter; The Shield; The Twilight Zone; The L Word; Queer As Folk; Nip/Tuck; The Simpsons; Family Guy; Trading Spouses "God Warrior" episodes 1 and 2; Beavis and Butthead; Aeon Flux; Scare Tactics; Six Feet Under; and The Office.

Books:

Let's go with authors instead: I like Stephen King; Shirley Jackson; Kin Platt; Truman Capote; H.P. Lovecraft; Ray Bradbury; Richard Matheson; Charles Beaumont; William F. Nolan; Scott Nicholson; John Everson; Elisabeth Massie; Clark Ashton Smith; William Faulkner; George Orwell; Gore Vidal; Hunter S. Thompson; Jack Kerouac; James Baldwin; William S. Burroughs; Jean-Paul Sartre; Anais Nin; Henry Miller; Erica Jong; Dostoyevsky; Nikolai Gogol; Andre Gide; Albert Camus; Simone De Beauvoir; Oscar Wilde; Vladimir Nabakov; William Shakespeare; Marquis De Sade; Darcey Steinke; Ha Jin; F. Scott Fitzgerald; Ernest Hemingway; Goethe; Plato; Aeschylus; Sophocles; William Goldman; Celine; Jean Genet; Anthony Burgess; Norman Mailer; Scott Heim; Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.; and Aristophanes. As for poets: Sylvia Plath; Dylan Thomas; Emily Dickinson; William Blake; Rimbaud; Anne Sexton; Sharon Olds; Jim Carroll; Wanda Coleman; Gregory Corso; Allen Ginsberg; Jim Morrison; Anna Akhmatova; Sappho; and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. One of the most influential books I've ever read was: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson, by Camille Paglia. It changed my life. Her revolutionary theories shocked my intellect to the core and both confirmed many of my own beliefs and forced me to re-examine my entire world outlook. This one is a must-read!

Heroes:

Karen Addleman (My 4th and 5th grade teacher)

My Blog

Meet the new year, same as the old year...

   This year seems to have gotten off to a lousy start. New Year's Day was spent working a 12-hour shift while others in my group got sent home hours earlier. The second was going good up un...
Posted by Douglas on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 01:14:00 PST

The Execution of Saddam Hussein

   The execution of Saddam Hussein did not fill me with the feelings of joy I had expected. I said many times that I would toast the death of this modern monster, but in the end I couldn't b...
Posted by Douglas on Sun, 31 Dec 2006 03:06:00 PST

Untitled

As you may have guessed, I've been away for awhile...  Untitled A prayer in the Mexican wilderness Fantasies of a woman I've never met Mid-forties, Portugese She's floating across the hardwood fl...
Posted by Douglas on Fri, 29 Dec 2006 03:13:00 PST

An Unpleasant Realization

   I watched a documentary on Courtney Love tonight and wow! the horrible realization that the worm has turned for the worst struck me like a ball-peen hammer to the back of the skull. The l...
Posted by Douglas on Wed, 20 Dec 2006 09:53:00 PST

Floyd's Law--End Game(Excerpt)

   Floyd Burke withdrew a dripping cloth from his coat pocket and shook it out onto Harding's desk. Slater's eyes rolled--wobbly on slivers of optic nerve--along the desk toward him like two...
Posted by Douglas on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 03:25:00 PST

Floyd and the Fat Man

Floyd and the Fat Man    In the end, he'd made the fat man cry like a little girl--especially when he snapped through the bone of the man's pinkie finger with the garden shears. It had made ...
Posted by Douglas on Sat, 09 Dec 2006 08:54:00 PST

From the Sick and Twisted Mind of a Lunatic

I was at work and my partner and I read a story in the newspaper about two people who had fallen while hanging Christmas lights and had been hurt bad. These two people were named Rodriguez(no rel...
Posted by Douglas on Wed, 06 Dec 2006 07:56:00 PST

A Fragment From 1990.

Here's a humorous fragment I ran across while going through a folder containing some early works. This one comes circa 1990:     She was like a glove against his hand; as soft and ...
Posted by Douglas on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 09:45:00 PST

4:51 pm, CDT

I finished writing "The Panzer" at 4:51 pm, CDT. I was up against a November, 24th deadline, so I got up at 8 am, sat down at my typewriter with a cold Rockstar energy drink, and didn't stop until it ...
Posted by Douglas on Thu, 23 Nov 2006 09:43:00 PST

An Amazing Occurrence

   My partner and I pulled into a fast food joint in Granbury this afternoon. He walked across the parking lot to the neighboring Shell station for a pack of cigarettes and I headed for...
Posted by Douglas on Fri, 17 Nov 2006 09:57:00 PST