bob is sitting in the passenger seat of the fiction Ford Triton V10 Action Van. He is looking out the window at the wilds of New York State as Frank pilots the lads westward at unadvisable speeds. Last night saw fiction play to a capacity crowd at The Irish Embassy in Boston, and tonight and tomorrow they're playing Auburn in upstate New York. Cool, huh?

This is a fairly good time to catch bob and grill him a bit for this here web-page bio. He's in an uncharacteristically good mood - full of coffee, in good voice and somewhat at peace with the world. Let's get some info out of him before he gets bitchy again, eh?

BIRTHPLACE: Helsinki, Finland 12.23.64

RAISON D'ETRE: No more bad jobs ever. No more jobs ever.

IN HIS CD PLAYER NOW: Long Tall Sally EP, The Beatles; Spilt Milk, Jellyfish; The Police, Live; Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk, Jeff Buckley; Quiet Storm, Soul Classics From The Sixties.

ON TOP OF HIS CD PLAYER NOW: Dust, more dust, TASCAM 246 4-track.

DIRECTLY TO THE LEFT OF HIS CD PLAYER NOW: Wall.

HOBBIES: Smoking, driving, drinking, peering disgustedly, being tired. bob is also fond of his rare yogurt collection.

FAVORITE WORDS: "sacroiliac", "aspartame", "food", "yes", "me", "****", "analog", "blasphemy", "commode".

HEIRS: Sally the Jack Russell.

FAVE FOODS: Cling Peach and Airedale Hair Cobbler.

FAVORITE DRINK: What The Lads drank, of course- whiskey and coke. Mmmm good.

TURN-ONS: Long walks in front of the fireplace. Living out my destiny. Computers that talk and then explode!!

TURN-OFFS: Not real big on fascism and fundamentalism. Sorry. Also music that goes BADDA BADDABA *yeh*, BADDA BADDA BAH....it's really the *yeh* that gets me. Not quite so much the BADDA.

FAVORITE EXCLAMATIONS: T.J. thought up the phrase "words of Christ in red!!!" I like that a lot.

BOB IN HIS OWN WORDS: I'm just a latter-day Robin Hood tryin' to make a buck. I put on my pants one arm at a time like anybody else.

LONG-TERM GOALS: Make it to the next gig. Everything else is gravy.