Drawing, baseball, going to shows, silkscreen printmaking, bowling, zines & comics, long walks, geology and earth science, painting, fried chicken, thunderstorms, antique machinery, Coast to Coast AM, St. Louis architecture, professional wrestling, The Civil War.
Favorite Artists: John J. Audubon, Lynda Barry, Virgina Lee Burton, Dan Clowes, Robert Crumb, Julie Doucette, Albrecht Durer, Ed Emberley, Justin Green, Thomas Hart Benton, Al Jaffee, Ben Katchor, Rockwell Kent, Mort Künstler, Mark Anthony Mulligan, John Porcellino, Pushead, Raymond Pettibon, E.C. Segar, Shel Silverstein, Carol Tyler, Vermeer, Wayne St. Wayne
Hardcore and Punk, Motown, Bluegrass
Monument to the Dream (Guggenheim's documentary about the construction of the St. Louis Gateway Arch)
The Andy Griffith Show, Twilight Zone, Sanford & Son, Freaks and Geeks, Lost, Gilmore Girls, etc.
Recently finished:
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
King-Cat Classics by John Porcellino
The Curiously Sinister Art of Jim Flora, Irwin Chusid ed.
The Spider Spoke #3 by Tom Smith
Comic Art #9, Todd Hignite ed.
The Princes of Time by Jon Vermilyea
Now reading:
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
Gettysburg by Stephen W. Sears
Geo. Caleb Bingham, Frontier Painter of Missouri
Copernicus, Redd Foxx