tippyfig

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http://www.knpr.org/aint/listNEW.cfm

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NV

Bio

I'm a semi-retired municipal court judge and writer whose work has been regularly featured on NPR’s All Things Considered and online at McSweeneys. As a lawyer, I almost exclusively handled murder cases. I've also traveled extensively throughout the United States performing at literary events. My most recent work of fiction is entitled GROPE (Future Tense Press -- Portland, Oregon). I have a dog; her name is Maudie.

What's your favorite public radio show?

I'm not much of a foodie, but I sure do love the way Lynne Rossetto Kasper curls her tongue around words. The Splendid Table is delectable.

What's your secret talent?

I can fix, er, summarily administrate a traffic ticket for you! If you think of beginning lawyers as first-level elves and traffic tickets as pesky slaadi, I am an 8th-level Eldritch Knight. Um, I'm really not that geeky anymore, though...six-sided Hit Dice are REAL!

What song is stuck in your head right now, you know, a music wedgie?

It's not bad to have a song stuck in your head, unless of course, it's Helter Skelter...playing backwards. I find that the Pina Colada song wipes out any earworm, but what is the cure for the cure?

What sound is most characteristic of where you live?

Gasping for air in the hot Las Vegas summer. They say, "well at least it's a dry heat." This makes about as much sense as saying "well you got sick last night, but at least it was dry heaves." Convection ovens provide dry heat...you're not supposed to live in convection ovens.

What's your favorite sound memory?

The speechlessness when I sang Edgar Winter's "Frankenstein" at Karaoke. That, and what it sounds like when the doves cry...it goes a little something like this...eeeeeeeccccccchhhhhh.

Which station do you listen to most?

KNPR

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