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About Me

Author, novelist, columnist, critic.

If you found me here, you might find more interesting stuff here (published work in print), here (recent blog), here (mobile photo blog), here (blog archives going back through 2000), here (online magazine bi-weekly column "Tales from the Third Lobe" at TwoHeadedCat, now retired), or here (online magazine biweekly-ish column "Letters From Heck" at The Footnote).

My Interests

All of it.

I'd like to meet:

People who are interested in turning creativity (theirs or someone else's) into a comfortable living.

Music:

Pretty tolerant of everything. When I'm in the mood, though, the weirder the better....

Movies:

A local movie rental store once populated his new "Cult" shelf based on my renting history. No kidding.

Television:

I barely turn on the tube anymore. I watch shows that take me places I can't go. Or wouldn't normally go.

Books:

I read science books. Also some twisted genre fiction. Mieville, di Filippo, VanderMeer, Palahniuk, Vonnegut, Borges, ... and a bunch of funny stuff. I've read all the Pratchett. And most Sedaris.

Heroes:

Twain. Feynman. Hunter Thompson. A few more. Certainly no one who will sit there with their mouth shut.