To be perfectly honest, I never intended to be a writer. I wrote some godawful stuff in high school after seeing the modern opera 'The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe'... I'd be embarrassed to even keep it lying around the house nowadays.
At the University of Chicago myself and three compadres founded a conservative journal of thought, the Chicago Criterion. Oddly, of the 20 or so of us on staff there was only one Republican. I filled in the back page with satire, trying my best to be as original as humanly possible --I am proud of my Ask Satan advice column, Conspiracy Horoscopes and Ja more...