the vitals  
Name: Jacob G. Corbin  
Known Aliases: Sandoval 
DOB: 6 September 1979 
Sex: ostensibly male  
Height: 5'11"  
Weight: 240 lbs.  
Hair: mousy brown in a dead weasel motif  
Eyes: squinty and in need of radial kerotonomy  
Base of Operations: Kansas City, MO; Lawrence, KS  
Marital Status: Single, but my Maori mail-order bride should be showing up any day now  
Occupation: Engineering student, would-be writer 

the favorites list  
Books: The Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe; Neuromancer, William Gibson; Dune, Frank Herbert; The Foundation Trilogy, Isaac Asimov; Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis; L.A. Confidential, James Ellroy; Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; The Quincunx, Charles Palliser; Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco  
Poems: "The Hollow Men", T.S. Eliot; "Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night", Dylan Thomas  
Music: The Ninth Symphony, Beethoven; Pictures at an Exhibition, Modest Mussorgsky; The Four Seasons, Vivaldi; "We Can Work it Out", The Beatles; "I'll Be Watching You", The Police  
Movies: L.A. Confidential; The Spanish Prisoner; Fight Club; Gattaca; The Big Lebowski; Casablanca; Raiders of the Lost Ark; The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly  
Glass Teat: The Equalizer, The Simpsons, Babylon 5, Homicide: Life on the Street, Star Trek: The Next Generation  
Comic Books: Watchmen, Planetary, Transmetropolitan, Astro City, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The Authority, Strangehaven

the faq  
You're not really a reverend, are you?  Au contraire, mon frere.  Thanks to the only really democratic spiritual organization out there -- the Universal Life Church -- I was able to endow myself as a High Priest of the First Church of Samuel L. Jackson, a torch I've carried for over two years now.  

Well, are you really Jewish then?  Good question.  This all really started when I needed a quick excuse for why I didn't eat pork (people don't tend to understand phrases like "pork sucks my balls") so I'd point out that pork isn't kosher -- which is, technically speaking, the truth.  I'd just fail to mention that I'm not Jewish.  But I must say that the kabbala is more fun than eight barrels of rabid fire-breathing Dr. Moreau monkeys. 

What's with the webpage?  Like all personal homepages, this is an exercise in masturbatory self-aggrandizement cleverly disguised as self-deprecating modesty.  

With what literary character do you most identify?  On a good day, Martin Arrowsmith; on a bad day, Richard the Third.  But usually I identify with Tony Stark, hero of IRON MAN -- he's an engineer with a heart of gold and the social skills of a caribou.