Before you answer your Call to Adventure, take a moment to
meet and greet your fellow pilgrim on this highway to hell called existence...

Whoami?:
Notes on a Raconteur & Roustabout
Francis Trautman resides in the Carl Family Motor Lodge in St. Martin
Parish, Louisiana, and also for long periods in the backseat of his ’73 Chevy
Impala. “Graveyard Frank” is currently working on his next project, a travel
guide to East St. Louis, as well as, a script for an episode of NBC’s
“Watching Ellie.” Please do not inform him that the program has been
cancelled. He holds degrees in Semiotics and Forensic Entomology, both at
the Mail Order University of Toledo, Ohio, in addition to an honorary PhD
from the Businessmen’s Association of Greater Baton Rouge. In his spare
time, Frank enjoys his collection of porcelain unicorns and velvet paintings of
clowns [Not the sad ones!], and his turn-offs are legal action and girls who
won’t commit. His advice to young writers?: “Hop a bus. Join a cult. Kill a
vagrant. It’s just great literature. Period.”

Il faut épater le bourgeois! ~ Baudelaire
Home sweet home.
Her eyes must have been beautiful; they even stared at each other.
Favorite Tunes:

  • Cold Cold Ground, Tom Waits
  • I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry,Hank Williams
  • Letter to Elise, the Cure
  • Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?, Chicago
  • Happiness is a Warm Gun, The Beatles
Favorite Flix:

  • The Thin Man (1934)
  • The Manchurian Candidate
    (1962)
  • The Getaway (1972)
  • La Strada (1954)
  • Marty (1955)
  • Carnival of Souls (1962);
    Delicatessen (1991)
  • The Tenant (1976)
  • Werkmeister Harmonies (2000)
  • Touch of Evil (1958)
  • Why Does Herr R Run Amok?
    (1970)
Hobbies include random self-abuse.
Existential @ 3 AM.
Heroes:

  • Henry Chinanski
  • John Merrick
  • Andrew Jackson
  • Steve McQueen
  • Raymond Shaw
  • Sam Peckinpaw
  • Tom Waits
  • Hank Williams
  • Johnny Eck
A  Job's A Job:

Hollywood Midnight Films   North Hollywood, CA
US  2005 Screenwriter    

Center for American Archeology Regional
Survey Kampsville, IL US  1997 Historic
Archaeologist    

McIlhenny Co. Archives Avery Island, LA US  
2000 Archaeologist    

University of Louisiana
Communication/Broadcasting Lafayette, LA US  
1999-2003 Grad Assistant    

Gannett News Corp. South Louisiana
Publishing Lafayette, LA US  2002-2003
Photography tech    

Regent Communications KMDL 97.3 FM
Lafayette, LA US  2001-2002 Syndicated board
operator    

Gannett-Fleming, Inc. Cultural Resources
Hammonton, NJ US  Oct 1997-Aug 1999; April
2003-March 2004 Archaeologist    

Institute for Long Island Archaeology,
SUNY-Stonybrook Anthroplogy Stonybrook,
Long Island, NY US  May 2004-MAY 2003 Field
Director    

Geo-Marine, Inc. Cultural Resources Hampton,
VA US  June 2005-January 2007 Project
Archaeologist   
She's cream and nitroglycerine.
Readin' n' Ritin'

MS; University Of Louisiana
At Lafayette
Broadcasting /Sociology  
2003

BS; Mercyhurst College
Erie,Pennsylvania
Anthropology /Philosophy  
1997
Gasp! Dramatic TV watching.
Dixie (Traditional ) © Greg Futch 2002
Frank's missed at home...