Interests and Hobbies: My two young daughters. Before that: hang gliding, reading, hiking, guitar, harmonica, travel in Asia.

Movies and Shows: Ze Frank's The Show, Al Bartlett's Arithmetic, Population, and Energy

Books: Vonnegut (so it goes. . .), Douglas Adams, Edward Abbey, P.J. O'Rourke, Stephen Colbert.

NOTE: Calm vamping – such as you'll see in the segment below – is less effective than the spirited, head-over-heels vamping illustrated by Robert Preston in The Music Man “right here in River City,” and other classic vamps.

Sure, you risk looking like a fool when you put your whole heart into vamping, but it seems to have worked out pretty well for Don King, Ron Popeil, Billy Mays and Glenn Beck.

Greg Craven (below) is doing his best and he's definitely making a difference, but can you imagine what Glenn Beck would do if he switched sides? Enormous money and frightening influence are at the fingertips of every successful vamp. (Poodles, frankly, are fairly easy to find.)