He could very easily have retired to sunny Florida and never been heard from again in Huntington, but that's not the kind of guy he is. He has a great love for Marshall University, has a real love for Huntington, a real love for Beckley, and the state of West Virginia.

I don't complain when it's sunny.

An ax came through the door. Then two firefighters. They looked down at and assistant mall manager crying and wearing a melted toupee, sitting cross-legged next to a mall cop with a bleeding ankle and a mouth full of paper.

One of the firefighters look at the other. "Not again.

I said, 'What now? In Huntington Beach?' So I had to start digging.

But you have to understand, mental illness is like cholesterol. There is is good kind and the bad. Without the good kind- less flavor to life. Van Gogh, Beethoven, Edgar Allen Poe, Sylvia Plath, Pink Floyd (the early Piper at the Gates of Dawn line up), scientific breakthroughs, spiritual revolution, utopian visions, zany nationalism that kills millions- wait, that’s the bad kind. Tim Dorsey (Hurricane Punch)

He's not as easily moved as he once was.