I’m a constant reader, often with several books going at once. My taste in reading runs to Golden Age and earlier mysteries, pulp detective and adventure fiction, Late Antique and medieval literature, westerns, and late nineteenth and early twentieth century popular fiction, among others. I also have a fondness for collections of cartoons and comic strips, and relatively recently I have begun collecting pulp magazines from the first half of the twentieth century.

I’m also an inveterate movie watcher. I watch a wide variety of genres — mystery, western, comedy, adventure, science fiction, horror, and more — and tend to watch older movies, particularly from Hollywood’s Golden Age in the 1930s and 1940s, but extending through the 1980s and only rarely later.

Moreover, I’m a lifelong — mostly armchair — model railroader, with a particular interest in S scale (not just American Flyer, but also early manufacturers such as Perma-Bilt and Bob Peare) and in vintage HO scale trains.