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About Me

I've written three books of satire and lots of forgettable magazine articles. Once, I called myself "The Greatest Living American Writer," but those days are gone now. I'm moving to Los Angeles to seek my fortune and lose my soul. Alternadad, my memoir of my first years as a parent, will be published in early 2007.

My Interests

Music, books, movies, hiking, The Los Angeles Dodgers, The Phoenix Suns, cooking, cheese, vaporizers, and bad sex.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who's interested.

Music:

I don't know anything about music.

Movies:

Sam Fuller, The Zucker Brothers, The Coen Brothers, Preston Sturges, Hitchcock, The Right Stuff, The Untouchables, and Turner Classic Movies when they're not showing bad Westerns or Ronald Reagan films.

Television:

Deadwood, The Simpsons, The Daily Show, the first two seasons of The Sopranos, St. Elsewhere reruns.

Books:

Jim Thompson, Patricia Highsmith, Cornell Woolrich, Paul Bowles, The Modern Library Crime Novels Of The 30s collection, Up In The Old Hotel, Gore Vidal's historical novels, Ruth Rendell, and so many more.

Heroes:

My son.

My Blog

Cruel Shoes

Until yesterday, Elijah had two pairs of shoes in rotation: some blue Crocs that were too small, and a pair of orange Crocs that were a little too big, causing him to trip and skin his knees a lot. Al...
Posted by Neal on Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:39:00 PST