About Amos Moses Griffin

It pains me to write about myself. However, leaving out an obligatory About Page strikes me as a punishable offense so, for the time being, what you get is a page peppered with short autobiographical lists and gratuitous sidebar photos. Lists seem to be the preferred method of weblog consumption anyway and it’s my joint so if I can’t stick gratuitous photos of myself here then where can I put them? Other than heartfelt emails to random strangers.

Places I Have Called Home

I’ve accepted the migratory pattern I seem to follow. Every five years or so it’s off to somewhere else.

  • Born in San Diego, California
  • Raised on a family farm in rural Central New York 1
  • Spent eight years in Guilford, Conneticut
  • Flagstaff, Arizona for two
  • Southeastern Vermont for three
  • Spent three years in the Adirondaks
  • Three living in Portland, Maine
  • Four additional ones in Birmingham, Alabama
  • Currently nesting in Huguenot, New York, about an hour and a half north of the city.

A Random and Incomplete Work History

A quick, incomplete list of jobs I’ve held since 1990. That dishwashing job down there kicked ass. I really can’t tell you how much I loved it and if the joint didn’t go out of business due to neglect I would have happily worked there until I retired.

  • Worked on a carpentry crew in the Adirondacks
  • Dishwasher at a cafe/comic book store (easily the best job ever)
  • Waiter at a Snobby Cafe
  • Residential treatment facility for teenage girls
  • Community organizer for recent immigrants
  • Projectionist (sounds better than the alternatives)

Miscellany

Odds and ends to help you fashion a better conception of me.

Areas of Keen Interest

The ones that immediately come to mind. I didn’t sit down to make the list. Had I sat down to make a list it would have been longer, but I did not sit down to make this list, so it is not. 2

A Few of My Favorite Things

Presented in no particular order, which I mention because were one to mistake it for a list ordered by importance then I’d have to answer for my wife’s ill position. Below beer and hippies is not a spot you should ever place anyone you claim to love.

  • Sunday Mornings
  • The Smell of Vanilla
  • The Smell of Fresh Cut Grass
  • The Smell of Sea and a Working Wharf
  • Portland, Maine
  • South-Eastern Vermont
  • Fall in New England
  • Winter in New England
  • Guinness
  • Living Near the Ocean
  • The New York Giants
  • The Boston Red Sox
  • The Syracuse Orange(men)
  • The Enigma of Manny Ramirez
  • Coffee in a Speeder and Earle Mug
  • My MacBook Pro
  • Rural towns and their culture
  • Brain fried hippies
  • Low Flying Helicopters
  • Not Using Shoelaces
  • Taking Off Socks
  • Waking up Next to My Wife
  • The Beauty of a Quiet Library
  • The Rush of Smoking Crack in a Wal-Mart Parking Lot

A Few Things I Dislike - For Balance

I’m easy going to the point of melted butter, but even one as relaxed as I has their triggers. Here’s a list of things that piss me off, given the right circumstances.

  • Magazine Leaflets
  • Snobbish Entitlement
  • New Age Narcissism
  • Olives
  • The 1988 New York Giants
  • Hovering Behavior
  • Watching Petulant Toddlers Run America
  • Missing the Cable Guy
  • Overachieving Hipsters
  • Shoelaces
  • People who think they have The Answer
  • Grammar Nazis

And finally, more pages

  1. You know, chicken, pigs, sheep, the whole idealized spread ↩
  2. Actually, I did sit down to make this list. It was not written standing, or coupled in a Tantric sexual position, or what have you. I did not give it much thought though. ↩
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Thanks for Visiting Griffin & Hoxie

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P.O. Box 266
Huguenot, New York, 12746
207 602-5442
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