Halloween, really bad science fiction and horror movies, wind-up toy robots, graphic arts, 3D computer graphics, and cartoons (everything from the Warner Brothers classics to Scooby Doo, the Simpsons, and the wild wide world of Anime)
Classic Pink Floyd, Kitaro, Alan Parsons, B.B. King, Tangerine Dream, Frank Sinatra, Blind Willie Johnson, Camel, They Might Be Giants, and through MySpace I'm becoming familar with other groups like The SeatBelts, Deadbolt, the Moon Rays, and the incomparable Voltaire
Young Frankenstein, Forbidden Planet, The Deadly Mantis, The Thing From Another World (1951), Godzilla vs. anybody except Anguirus (poor Anguirus, I just know the other inhabitants of Monster Island beat him up for his lunch money), Them, Blazing Saddles, Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Mummy (1959, featuring the best mummy squib shot ever), The Day of the Triffids, Legend of Drunken Master, House of Wax (1953), The Raven (1963), Tarantula, Alien, Mystery Science Theater 3000 the Movie, Son of Frankenstein (1939), The Brain that Wouldn't Die, Shaolin Soccer, The Amazing Colossal Man, Wallace & Gromit
Mythbusters, Lost in Space, The Simpsons, Land of the Lost, MXC (Most Extreme Elimination Challenge), Babylon 5, Dr. Who (the Tom Baker years), Family Guy, South Park, X-Play, Venture Brothers, Pink Panther (cartoons), Drawn Together, Benny Hill, Tri-Gun, Johnny Quest (the original series)
The works of H.P. Lovecraft, Robert A. Heinlein, Edgar Allan Poe, and Mad Magazine's Don Martin; The Martian Tales of Edgar Rice Burroughs; The War of the Worlds; Something Wicked This Way Comes; The White Mountain trilogy; Weekly World News
Everyone's favorite
Master of Scarimonies,
the late great
Dr. Paul Bearer.
The two most influential men
in the field of
sports journalism
One of the greatest influences in my de-formative years was Mad Magazine's wildest artist, Don Martin.
Your Halloween Costume Should Be
An Alien
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