User Profile

My journal contains book reviews, DVD reviews, comments, rants and short essays on current events, social issues and politics as well as brief descriptions of life events and various happenings around my home towns of Austin, Texas and Santa Cruz, California.

I work full-time and attend college part-time. I've been doing that for several years. I expect to graduate from U of H in 2009.

I write but rarely get paid for it. I read for information and entertainment (mostly entertainment and diversion unless it is for school or work). I'm currently writing a long work of fiction (I'm not really sure one can call it a novel) which is contemporary socio-economic commentary in the form of a highly speculative story set in the near future. This came about through the selective grafting of mutant bastards: well-developed characters and settings were extracted from a lousy play I wrote two years ago (good characters, good dialogue, not much of a plot), two impending major natural phenomena were added (solar supermax in 2012 + polar shift [which could happen any time in the next two decades]), followed by an economic collapse. Good writing is like alchemy - you mix the base elements together, they interact/react, and one time out of a million you end up with pure gold. I never claimed to be an alchemist, but I sure have fun blowing up the lab (and I look fab in the white coat).

I'm a musical theater composer who also dabbles in various other forms. I recently finished with an extremely irreverent black musical comedy set in a Catholic middle school, "St. Dogma's Academy".

I have a cat named The Princess Pussy Herself. I play electronic keyboards (poorly), bass guitar and harmonica (I sound like a drunken monkey with a bagpipe; it is a real hit at parties).

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