a little Butler on this rainy day....

                                                     ERIC   BUTLER

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ANGELIQUE: If you could be any one of your characters, who would it be and why?

BUTLER: I don’t think I’d want to be any of the people in my stories. I’m not very nice to my characters, and often take them to places no one would want to go. That said, if I was forced to choose one, it would be Ephraim Godwin from The Sins of the Past. I enjoy the setting – Victorian England, and I haven’t completely destroyed his life yet, so there’s still hope for a happy ending at some point … *narrator’s voice, “There is little to no hope.”

ANGELIQUE: What makes me more likable than your co-host for the pod you do, What's in the Box?

BUTLER: This is an easy one. You have not thrown me under the bus on a podcast. Other than that, it’s really neck and neck.

ANGELIQUE: You have to live inside a horror film for the rest of your short life, which film would you choose and how are you dying?

BUTLER: The Thing. I would probably die because I was hanging out with the dogs and be the first one killed and duplicated.

ANGELIQUE: What's the last embarrassing thing you bought?

BUTLER: I can’t remember the last time I bought something that made me feel embarrassed. I think being a parent of a sick kiddo and husband for over 20 years, I’ve had to buy things that may have embarrassed me when I was younger but have toughened me up over time. My wife suggested I mention the inflatable South Park chair I put on our wedding registry, but I reminded her I wasn’t the one embarrassed by that, lol.

ANGELIQUE:  Where's the oddest place you've written?

BUTLER: I guess the weirdest place would have been back in college. I would write short stories during Chemistry when the teacher droned on for too long. Or back in the day, when I ran a mailing company, I would write ideas down or lines of dialogue to break up the monotony of running the machines. I have stacks of scrap paper filled with notes.

ANGELIQUE: Have you ever misheard song lyrics and were disappointed when you learned the actual lyrics? What's the song and what did you hear vs. the real lyrics.

BUTLER: I wish I had a good answer for this question but I don’t so I will pivot and tell this story. When I was like 5 or 6, my father was in the Army and we lived on base in Germany. One day we got together with a few other families for lunch and a game of baseball. Now a popular heckle at the time was “Pitcher’s got a rubber arm and doesn’t know how to use it.” I started to chant this at one point, but I thought it was “Pitcher’s got a rubber on and doesn’t know how to use it.” My father quickly shut this down.

ANGELIQUE: What's your favorite shade of lipstick?

BUTLER: It’s kinda a boring answer but I’m a fan of traditional colors like pink or red. A crazy shade is fun if it goes with whatever look the person is going for, but you can’t beat the classics.

ANGELIQUE: Where exactly is that funny smell coming from?

BUTLER: Your upper lip?

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