A friend's young daughter once asked me if I remembered dinosaurs.
I didn't know if I was supposed to feel offended or flattered, but in the spirit of looking at the world through a half-full glass, I figured she was paying me a compliment, so I converted my fossil-vintage lore into prose.
My reptilian connection remains strong. People sometimes call me a brontosaurus. The first story I ever wrote as a kid was about time travel and hunting prehistoric beasts, an episode that inspired the scene with young Max and little Vera in "The Extrasense." And finally, most music that I listen to belongs to a long-gone era. Begin the list with the Beatles and the Zombies and end somewhere around Dire Straits and Depeche Mode.