About Hank Fox
Shameless bragging follows:
I recently took a year off from work to write two books, one a children’s book, another a collection of essays on atheism.
I’ve ridden 8 bulls. I’ve hitchhiked around the U.S. more than 26,000 miles. I once shook the hand of baseball legend Sandy Koufax, but had no idea who he was because I don’t follow baseball. I’ve flown upside-down in a plane, and parachuted out of one 5 times. When I was younger, I hopped a ride on a freight train across three states. I’ve fed marshmallows by hand to a live grizzly bear. I’ve been bitten by a coyote. I once ran the main control board at an asphalt plant. Back when I was a professional baker and pastry chef, a hall full of conventioneers gave me a standing ovation for my pastries. I once did a back layout out of a third-floor window into a snowbank. I’ve never had a broken bone. I’m a member of Mensa. I have tissue samples of my dead dog stored in liquid nitrogen, and I hope to someday clone him. I got lost in a snowstorm for 8 hours while cross country skiing at night one time, and almost died. I sold the first piece of writing I ever submitted for publication, to a national magazine. I ran for public office and lost … twice. I possess the only existing recipe for Nuclear Cheese Bread. I’m a photography hobbyist and I have a Flickr site. Thanks to the Internets, I know how to make a flame-thrower out of PVC pipe.
I’m restoring a 95-year-old house … very slowly. I think most people who get tattoos are idiots, and state lotteries are a Really Bad Idea. I’m an advocate for atheism, and I’m thrilled that atheists are at last finding a voice in the U.S. I’d like to see George W. Bush impeached, and Dick Cheney, Karl Rove and Rush Limbaugh in prison.
I’m currently attempting to market those two books to agents and publishers, designing t-shirts in a small business with a friend in California, cranking up a freelance career in writing and editing, and working at a newspaper part-time.
I’m trying to get back in shape, and will be posting pictures of my huge gym-shorts-clad posterior and decidedly unwashboard abs, as I attempt to lose some weight and get fit and thin again. At 55, I’d still like to run a marathon someday.
And oh yeah, I’m single and live alone. I plan to get a puppy.
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But like Harry Potter said, it all sounds a lot better when you hear it than it does to live it. Most of the time, my life seems to be about not getting everything done, the grind of day to day chores, and the VERY occasional adventure. I refer to myself as “a well-meaning doofus,” and that’s about as close as it comes to really describing me.
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Waddie Greywolf :
Date: January 30, 2008 @ 8:24 pm
Like your site. Saw a bumper sticker the other day on an old cowboy’s truck that read: Don’t vote for Huckabee. I want to marry my horse.
Peace
W. G.
Jsn :
Date: January 30, 2008 @ 10:28 pm
Hank,
I enjoy your writing at UTI, but these days – the other guys at UTI -not so much.
Obviously you’re a renaissance man.
I applaud your efforts to educate the Irrational (i.e. god-believers), Cheers!
hankfox :
Date: January 31, 2008 @ 5:55 pm
Jsn: Whew! High praise. Thank you.
Dirk Diggler :
Date: February 5, 2008 @ 8:30 pm
Hi Hank,
Over on UTI, you mentioned how close we live to one another. We should get together some time. Specifically, I noticed the last sentence of this post. You want a puppy. I got puppies. Dozens of em. Literally.
Every other Saturday morning, I help out at a doggy adoption clinic for the CDHA (Capital District Humane Society). We just did one last Saturday (Feb 2) at the Petsmart in Latham. The Saturday after next we will be in the Clifton Park Petsmart from 10am-1pm.
Here is their website:
www.capital-district-humane.com/cdha-dogs-for-adoption.htm
The website is kinda lousy. They have many more dogs available than what is posted. And the selection changes all the time.
I posted my email address here on your blog. Feel free to send me a note and I will give you my phone number (and real name).
Alondra Press :
Date: August 10, 2008 @ 1:41 pm
Just a post script to the email I sent you regarding your submission, Blue Collar Atheist. I want to tell you again that we wish we could publish it, but our finances do not allow. We have yet to make profit on any of our books.
Regards Kathleen Palmer, Editor
Irradiatus :
Date: October 10, 2008 @ 3:28 pm
Hey Hank,
I’m writing here because I don’t see an email address.
I was writing to let you know that I submitted your excellent post, “Thank you, Mr. Darwin. Again.“ to the “Carnival of Evolution“, a blog carnival.
I just happened to notice that my own comment on the post in praise of your article was deleted. I’m curious why (obviously it’s your prerogative).
Irradiatus :
Date: October 10, 2008 @ 3:29 pm
scratch that last comment about my comment being deleted – I see it now (weird considering I wrote it on another computer).
Cindy Coppola :
Date: October 30, 2008 @ 9:47 am
Hank,
I would like to purchase a couple of pictures you took of Me & my “Ole Man” at the Bag Pig a couple of weeks ago. Would you please send me your prices & “how to” at ccoppola2@csc.com.
Thanks, Cindy & bryan
Behyar Goudarzian :
Date: November 1, 2009 @ 1:45 pm
I don’t remember that you are one of my classmates. Can you please tell me what college did you attend that you knew this Iranian student name `Ben`? I just want to understand is this a similarity in names only which I doubt. Please explain because I don’t agree with your comments.
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Rickey Miller :
Date: April 9, 2010 @ 10:07 am
Yeah, you look like a pretty good well meaning doofus, as far as well meaning doofuses go. Man! I’ve been atheist since the summer of 2007. I’ve never felt so lonely as when I just read your permissible piece and I’m trying to decide who I can send the link to. Very nice thinking. Thanks.