John Donald Knox, AKA QuackJak, AKA Johnny Woodside
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Student |
| Occupation | Mad Psychologist in Training |
| Location | Woodside, New York, United States |
| Introduction | Born in Brooklyn, ended up in Queens. In between I've lived in Atlanta, San Francisco, San Jose, Chicago, and Bakersfield (no particular order). I've been to Rome, Tuscany and Canada and saw 3 of the world's 8 Wonders. Will see the rest as time goes by. I've been a drunk, a thief, an EMT, a religous ed. teacher (that one I quit for theological reasons: them being I believe in choice and free thought and they didn't) and had a whole lotta jobs in-between. Started a family pretty late, but that's fine by me. Studying to be a psychologist. Why? Because no one is better qualified to help a damaged psyche than one that has managed to dust itself off and keep on truckin... My first book, "The Big Book of Useless Examinations", came out on June of '05: available on Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble. My second, "mageOPS: The Hellpit Incursion" will hopefully be out whenever. I've been through earthquakes, hurricaines, floods, terrorist attacks and fires. If I'm not dead by now, the Devil had better watch his ass... |
| Interests | My wife and son, writing, collecting meaningless crap, asian cinema, cats, Dexter (the books and the Showtime series), lapidary, painting,tinkering,drawing,second-thinking surgery after I've had it,reading,finding new uses for medications (ie. slingshot ammo), movies,music,late -night T.V. and blogging. New Interest: getting my comic books titles off the ground... |
| Favorite movies | Horror, Asian schlock, bad comedy, sci-fi, the occasional tearjerker, anything with zombies and/or monkeys in it. Make a movie involving the antics of a dead guy and his monkey and you've got a hit. |
| Favorite music | Ska (most), Reggae, Johnny Cash,Powerman 5000,Black Flag, Rammstein,Guster,My Chemical Romance, Frank Zappa,the Killers,Offspring,Rush,AC/DC,Jay-Z, Sublime,Everclear, Ice Cube, Green Day, Meatloaf, Metallica, Pink Floyd and the Wiggles. |
| Favorite books | The 'Dark Tower' series, police procedurals (Ed McBain, William J. Caunitz), 'America: the Book', any Heinlin. 'The Fabric of Reality', 'Tailchaser's Song', 'All Meat Looks Like South America'. |
The children are waiting! Please tell them the story about the bald frog with the wig:
Donald Trump was a very lonely frog...