I will always stop to watch what is on the Discovery Channel. There is a rejuvenating simplicity to be found in the animal kingdom and I have discovered a way to build my own menagerie. I busy myself with dreams of Antarctica and endless fields of penguins (dreams which are completely unemcumbered by the dank reality of the stench of a thousand birds all crapping on the same stretch of black rock) while I surround myself with an extremely noisy black cat and a delightful wife who caters to my fascination with animals by being able to make noises like a night bird, scamper about like a stoat, attack a scone like a squirrel, perch like a lemur, control the pond like an angry duck, and carry water like a faithful camel. It's only going to get worse when the kids get old enough to visit the zoo.

Byron's "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" was a formative part of my schooling, and the idea of the wandering outlaw fuels the other half of my Gemini duality. In an effort to re-imagine Byron's dark romanticism for the 21st century, I write. You will find short stories, novels, screenplays, and other ephemera in my on-going effort to get the right word in the right place on the page. This site is the formed shape of the left side of my brain. This is the particular and the exact, the quantifiable and the detailed. This is where I will try to remember things, where I store things so that I can find them again, and where I collate other things so I always know where they are.

» BIBLIOGRAPHY: As it sounds, this is my writing CV. Nothing much more than a list of where I've been and what I've done. The link at top will take you there as will this link.

» MUSIC: This section is devoted to my work as a music critic and DJ. I was Senior Editor at Earpollution for its six year run and I am currently a Contributing Editor to Igloo and I contribute to a number of other publications as well. The MUSIC section attempts to collect the reviews as a historical archive as well as being home to material written exclusively for this site.

» RESEARCH LINKS: This link will take you to my Del.icio.us list, a collection of research-devoted and other links which are on my mind. Actually, they're not which is why they are here so that I can remember them.

» JOURNAL: This link will take you to my LiveJournal. It's a little less marketing and a little more of the day-to-day. Unless I'm busy making content in which case it is very quiet.

There are still some pictures floating around out there in the Internet of me wearing a rabbit suit. Some may ask: What's up with the rabbit suit? The answer is that one should never make idle promises. Some friends will laugh and say, "Hey, that's a good idea." Others will remind you of your words, and some will even help you out if you are showing a lack of proper motivation. Click here for the full story.

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