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comic book connoisseur, who often .. _r__v_r_V_,___   I   *  Qiiwiif  ,1   · ~»~»   ,
catered to those high-paying cus- I . ·-Yi NT iiiii } A g  L     4    ju______“__M
tomers who requested he locate and _. i` “ Y? =   if if-: ·ei·  
deliver special editions for them.     Q *vr’ rf       if H g l T
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kept in touch with after he sold his   J ~ I ‘   g   . i" i~ ___:_  
last store and moved to Lexington to
attend UK. the spring semester — so Moore to like eveiything. I don't like to focus
After dealing with them at his New applied decided to apply. on things," he said.
Boston store, Moore decided Ken- I “It was there, and I decided to go Besides comic books, Moore has other
tuckians were a friendly lot and that . for it. I saw it as a way to pay the sta- interests, like his Macintosh computer.
he would like to attend UK. tion back for what it had taught me." “The more I find I can do, the more
He moved into an apartment in Moore spent most of his time at Ilike to do with it—it’s obsessive."
Lexington before classes began in A WRFL during the year he was general Role-playing games allow Moore to
the fall of 1988 and tried to get a feel manager, and he slacked off on his live another life with as much excite-
for the campus and the city. And A comic book fetish. Now that he is tak- ment and adventure as he can conjure
what better way to check out another ing some time off from the radio sta- up. Dungeons and Dragons, a game
of his interests — music? tion to concentrate more on his in which the players assume different
To Moore’s surprise, he found education, he will probably begin identities and live out their charac-
what he thought was a heavy metal sta- collecting comics again. ters’ lives, was given to him by his
tion at 88.1 WRFL-FM. “I was amazed He has been putting comics away grandmother when he was seven and
when I heard a station playing old for the future, but he said his collec- he has been playing it for l4years. I
AC/DC, butI thought I had stumbled y tion is too large to keep in his apart- Moore attributes his diversity to his
across an all heavy metal station.” ment in Lexington. parents. They have been divorced for ;
Moore had stumbled across WRFL, “The best of what I had I put back almost as long   he can remember,  
UK’s student-run radio station, and he for my retirement. It’s nice to know but they both supported him and cre-  
. liked what he heard. He stopped by that no matter how everything else ated a free-thinking atmosphere by  
i the station one afternoon to pick up a turns out, I have something to fall doing things that weren’t the norm. i
l schedule of the heavy metal shift. back on.” Starting in the lirst grade, Moore I
He not only picked up a schedule Swamp T/ting, Hellblnzer and the X- changed schools every two years
[ but filled out an application to work Mevz Muzmzt books are among Moore’s because his parents wanted him to get
at WRFL, even though he had no favorite comics. He said he likes these a diverse education. "I like it — I
I prior radio experience. because they are different from the knew everybody.
Although he started off at the bot- typical superhero comic — they are “I think l’ve been very lucky."
tom of the staff, Moore was on his way geared toward a more adult, more _i_w i of rfw V if
{ to becoming the youngest general intellectual-thinking crowd. Kyla I*`0sm· is a .S`{’}If()}` s/rgjfwrt/m·_/br Wm
manager ever at WRFL. “They’ve got a little depth to them Kvntur/cy Ifmvzzal. Y7zi.s· ar/irlw is r·ry1ri12/wl .
The position was opening up for and a little bit of strangeness   I like zuit/z]1m~rnissim1.© I992.
{ Fall 1992 Kentucky Alumnus l I