My favorite book as a child
The Days Are Just Packed: A Calvin & Hobbes Collection.
It has magic in it, but its very true.
Its funny, but its dead serious.
Credit: Stephen Voss
The book that cemented me as a writer
Jurassic Parkby Michael Crichton.
The movie Ive watched over and over again
M. Night ShyamalansThe Village.What can I say?
Im always up to watch some repressed issues play out in limited palette.
Maybe four tears and a tablespoon of snot.
The first album I ever bought
An Ace of Base album.
My parents listened to all the albums we bought to make certain the lyrics wouldnt corrupt us.
It was just as satisfying as I hoped.
10/10 would do again.
My literary hero
Howl fromHowls Moving Castle.
Wizards with bad coping mechanisms are my role models.
I suppose if they were wizards it couldnt be calledScrubs.Capes,maybe.
The group of fictional pals I dream of joining
The knights fromMonty Python and the Holy Grail.
My favorite movie
Big Fish.OrTop Gun.
If you combine those two movies, you will actually know everything there is to know about me.
An illicit book I had to read in secret as a kid
TheEncyclopaedia Britannica.
I had made it through two volumes when my parents realized that I intended to donothingbut read them.
After that my sordid affair was forced into secrecy.
They didnt have to worry, anyway.
I gave up when I got to the entry for capybara.
The fictional place Ive dreamed of moving to
The past.
Some time period where the things too powerful for names existed a little closer to the surface.
It took me 30 years and a history major to figure out that one of those time periods wasnow.
What Im reading now
The Callby Peadar O Guilin.
