About the Author

I:
I work building websites for nonprofit agencies, help out at a record store, volunteer for a doggy rescue agency (ooh, look! I’m on a committee!), do flyers for some local bands and/or shows, and have done the occasional guest DJ spot at Bourbon Street •

I Like:
Vestigiality • cartoons • Mr. Potato Heads • action figures (they’re not fucking dolls!) • making faces at strangers • singing loudly when I’m alone in my car • crinkling my nose up at people • wondering where the people in the planes flying over my house are off to • australian shiraz  •  eavesdropping • soda • that really cute freckle on the middle toe of my left foot • willing myself taller through positive thought (not yet, but it might work someday) •

I Love:
Wombats • live music • bad horror and kung fu movies • venus flytraps • strong coffee • sci-fi books • PhotoShop • gallons of water • urging others to have better taste in music • Kurt Vonnegut • coffee • Albert Einstein • cigarettes • reading other people’s blogs • Milan Kundera • the Wreckless Eric song “Whole Wide World” • last.fm • Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends • Devo • seagulls • vinyl records •

I Live For:
My family • my boy, who is amazing • going out with friends for Pabst and general debauchery just about every Monday night • that trip to Africa we’ve been planning •

I Could Do Without:
Yelling at my non-ergonomic piece of shit cell phone • having to pee every 10 minutes • I plan on cursing the next person that tells me I look like Karen Allen • With the plague • how my head always looks unusually large in photographs • those wrinkles setting into my forehead • most other human beings • except you, you’re cool •

The Truth:
I’m artistically minded, but never manage to finish what I start • Like the couch-sized clownfish I built in my living room outta chicken wire and paper machier • Or my collage of card-stock monsters • I only ever made one monster • It’s not much of a collage • I had planned on starting a giant paper machier octopus, but I was worried my roomie would kill me if I create any more ‘works of art’ that are so large I have to throw away more furniture to make room for it • We ‘lost’ two couches to those endeavors • Then I moved into a small house with my boy and there is no room for me to make my messes • I imagine I’m frequently misunderstood • But I don’t much care to do anything about that •