This week's guest is Tom Lucas...
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If you could have chosen your own name when you were born, what would it have been?
TL: According to my mom, there was a time when I wanted to be called Lance Crockett. It’s a combo of my favorite baseball player at the time (Lance Parrish) and Davy Crockett. Lance Crockett. What a name. That’s a guy who will rip your arms right out of your socket ‘cause you looked at him sideways. I should have stuck with it.
If it was socially acceptable to wear anything as clothing, how would you dress?TL: I would like to go around town dressed like an old school Rollerball player. The 1970s version, not that bullshit remake nonsense. I would have to re-learn how to roller skate. It’s been a long time.
Who or what is your favorite movie monster, and why?
TL: Splice. I bet no one ever picks that one. Why? Did you see it? The ending? HOLY SHIT.
What was your greatest Halloween costume?
This question seems like a good one to answer considering…my favorite and best Halloween costume was a Tusken Raider from Star Wars. This costume was the real deal. My grandfather was a handy guy and he took an old football helmet and covered it with burlap and built in the breather and the whole shebang. That costume was so badass that I wore it three years in a row.
If you could survive on one food for the rest of your life with no health repercussions, what would it be?
TL: Pizza. It is the greatest of all foods and there’s plenty of variety with all the crazy toppings available to today’s discerning pizza customer.
Have you traveled outside your home country, and if so, where? Where would you like to go that you haven't been yet?
TL: Back in college (the olden days 'cause I am olden), I spent the summer semester in Krakow, Poland. It was 1990 and the Berlin Wall had just gone down. It was a wild, wild time. I toured a good chuck of Eastern Europe that summer as well, so that was cool.
I would love to make it down to Australia. Everything I see looks cool as hell and I really want to hang out with Adrian Shotbolt.
What happens when you die?
TL: George Carlin used to say that you get back everything you ever lost. I hope that’s not true. I have no use for 1257 ball point pens. But, on the flip side…I did lose a comic book collection when a tornado hit my house in 1997. Thousands of books right up in the air, gone forever. Sigh. Yeah, I hope I get those back.
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Tom Lucas was born and raised in Detroit, and although currently enjoying the lack of snow and ice in Florida, remains a son of the post-industrial apocalypse.
He is the author of the bizarro books Leather to the Corinthians and Pax Titanus.
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