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About Me

I live in a little house in the woods with my two dogs - Jack and Roland. I have been selling comics for 24 years now. Before that I was a reporter. I read a lot, go to movies and generally do as I please, budget permitting. I like box turtles, dogs, happy people and good chili. I hate people texting while they're driving, high gas prices and anyone who defends Michael Vick.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Rick Blaine, Charlie Chan, Michael Valentine Smith, Elwood P. Dowd, Henry Jones Jr., Larry Talbot, Tom Destry, Ben Grimm, Atticus Finch, John Greystoke, Clark Savage Jr. and Marion Ravenwood.

Music:

60s Motown, classical, jazz, lots of stuff.

Movies:

Indiana Jones, Marx Brothers, old Universal horror films, Thin Man, John Ford/John Wayne, Caddyshack, Animal House, Spider-Man, Casablanca, Godfather I and II, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, anything really good.

Television:

24, Torchwood, CSI, Adult Swim, Monk, Coupling, Monty Python's Flying Circus, JL Unlimited, Squidbillies, The Office, Heroes, Frazier, Buffy, Angel and Firefly.

Books:

anything by Mark Twain, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, Fritz Lieber, Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, John Sanford, Elmore Leonard, James Cain, Sharyn McCrumb, Ed McBain, Robert E. Howard - jeez, too many to name, really.

Heroes:

Haven't had a real hero since Bobby Kennedy was shot.

My Blog

A Monstrous Day

When I was young growing up in Elizabethton, it was way before cable TV, DVDs or downloads. If you wanted to see an old monster movie, you had to wait until they showed it on one of the two local stat...
Posted by Mountain Empire Comics on Sun, 12 Oct 2008 07:52:00 PST

Jack is doing fine!

I picked Jack up at the vet's office this morning. He was raring to go - couldn't wait to get out of there and get home. He has a shaved back leg and a partially shaved front leg (for the intravenous ...
Posted by Mountain Empire Comics on Fri, 03 Oct 2008 11:01:00 PST

Something I don’t wanna do but I gotta

I took my black lab mix Jack for his annual innoculations Monday. I had them give him a bath too. When I dropped him off at the vets, I mentioned he had a tiny lump on his right hip.So they call the s...
Posted by Mountain Empire Comics on Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:29:00 PST

Bears, baths and baseball

It's Sunday morning, my favorite blog time. I'm sitting here sipping coffee from my U.S. Army cup while Jack and Roland are out in the woods. I love these times - why can't every day be Sunday morning...
Posted by Mountain Empire Comics on Sun, 28 Sep 2008 07:46:00 PST

The right to arm bears

So I get back from my evening walk tonight and hear my next door neighbor (who is also my uncle) yelling at something telling it to get out of there. I can't see anything because of all the trees, und...
Posted by Mountain Empire Comics on Wed, 17 Sep 2008 05:57:00 PST

Frankenstein, porn and the doldrums

I was checking out the news on one of the comic book sites the other day and the guy writing a column sort of said there were nothing going on. All the major cons are over, school is back in session a...
Posted by Mountain Empire Comics on Sun, 14 Sep 2008 11:36:00 PST

Life is just too short

So I made a big decision last week. I've been working six days a week at the comic book store for about the last 20 years. Starting this month, my lovely assistant Diana will be running the place on M...
Posted by Mountain Empire Comics on Mon, 01 Sep 2008 07:35:00 PST

Race Night in Downtown

Today is the day they shut the streets off in downtown Bristol and invite all the NASCAR fans to come by and walk around. I'm sure it's all very festive for the race fans. But I've been here around si...
Posted by Mountain Empire Comics on Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:04:00 PST

Very close!

There was a big event over at the Memorial Park Thursday. It was called "Bark in the Park" and you could bring your dog to show them off.It was pretty cool. All kinds of breeds, big dogs, little dogs,...
Posted by Mountain Empire Comics on Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:34:00 PST

The Thing and dog collars

Ever since we moved into the new comic book store, we've slowly been changing and improving things in the new location. For instance, we just junked the old credit card machines we've had for years fo...
Posted by Mountain Empire Comics on Sun, 10 Aug 2008 10:48:00 PST