American Gothic

-- Grant Wood







The site with a "gonzo, sci-fi, cow jazz sense of humor"--Terry Gardner*

sp.gif - 0.0 K Hi! Welcome to my study! Pull up a chair...you might try the leather-covered wingback by the window...grab a magazine or newpaper, and put your feet up on the ottoman. Sorry, I don't have any cigars since I don't smoke. If you smoke, please do not throw your butts in here! 

House Rules

Be sure to observe the house rules:
  • No tidying up or straightening pictures, please! I like things disorderly so I can find them! Besides the magazines on the floor protect the carpeting, and if the pictures were straightened, it might affect my skewed view of the world.
  • This study is a nuclear free-zone, and I will not tolerate anyone bringing nuclear missiles into my study! If you have any nukes on your person, please remove them at once and before entering stow them in the hall closet where they can do no harm!
  • Political correctness will not be tolerated unless you are politically otherly-abled.
  • No foul language or expectorating allowed.
  • Do not remove boots.  How else will I know you are from Texas?
  • Pocket protectors are allowed only if you can recite the mnemonic for the resistor color code.
  • Dieting allowed only on a full stomach. 

The Proprietor

The proprietor is Lee Murrah, who is so eccentric that he acts normal just to be different. (I know it's hard to believe, but Lee is more like he is now than he was just a moment ago). 

Lee's study is located at Lee's home in Rochester Hills, Michigan near Detroit where he has lived since 1997. Lee still can't decide whether he is a "Michiganian" or a "Michigander", but he is getting pretty good at the local practice of simulating the state geography by holding up their right hand and saying "think of the lower peninsula as a mitten--we are here." Lee now listens to Bobby Bare's recording of  "Detroit City" at least 16 hours a day (you know--"by day I make the cars, and by night I make the bars").

Lee is an intellectual property (we used to be called "patent attorneys" before we went highbrow) for ArvinMeritor, Inc. at Troy, Michigan. 

  • If you'd like to see how Lee got himself into this predicament, you can check out his biography
  • If you curious what Lee looks like, check out his photo album.
  • If you have a few extra hours and are the type of person who craves living on the edge, or simply like to observe vanity in action, please visit Lee's genealogy page. Genealogy is a a hobby in which unsuccessful, dirt poor farmer ancestors are elevated to social prominence.
  • To learn how Lee evolved from an intellectually inclined lawyer to a Bubba with a jacked-up Jeep with big "tars" who deliberately drives over rocks and through mud, please see his Gone Wheelin' page.
  • And for a better idea about how Lee's mind works (let me know if you figure it out), be sure to see: 
    • Lee's eclectic (great word, huh?) hodge podge of interests
    • A list of Lee's favorite things (absolutely guaranteed not to include watermelon wine or old pickup trucks.) 
    • Quotes specially selected by Lee guaranteed to tickle your neurons (or you money back, no questions asked -- but there is a 10 page form to fill out.).

Amateur Radio

Antenna heads please assemble over here near the Super Morse Home Page to get your DIT-DAHs.

Communicate with Lee

* In the interest of full disclosure, I must state that Terry Gardner is my cousin, although a distant one.  This type was deliberately chosen to be very difficult to read.  If you can read it, though, you are substantially increasing your risk of cancer or something, or whatever was in the paper today that the Canadian white mouse died from.
MLM: 18 Nov 2000