I’ve been working on the web since 1999 and writing all my life. I began learning HTML to create a webzine where I could write reviews of music and movies. Writing and coding went hand in hand with blogging and running webzines. I spent the next few years working as a freelance web designer and music journalist. I am now chiefly interested in the intersection of content and design — that is, how we communicate on the web. Related to that, I am interested in open source software, free culture, crowd-sourcing, remix culture, and the Creative Commons.

Currently, I work as a UI designer at Golden State Communications where I slice designs and code sites. Prior to that, I worked at echo as a Site Operations Specialist where I worked on the front-end of sites for Kanye West, Dolly Parton, Kelly Clarkson and many others.

In 2004, I published my first novel, Being Good. You’ll find info by following the link above that says “books.”

In 2006, I published my second novel, Barry’s Cherries. It’s the story of a washed-up B-movie director who has moved to Nashville to escape the Hollywood fame game. To his dismay, he finds himself caught up in a similar game when a country musician threatens to release a video featuring one of his starlets. It’s full of pop culture nuggets and Ramones arcana.

From 2004 to 2006, I published NashvilleZine, a collaborative weblog that covered indie rock in Nashville.

From 1999-2005, I published Popshot Magazine (which began as Bombast-xxx.com)–a pop culture, indie rock zine that pretty much covered whatever the other writers and I wanted to cover.

My writing has appeared in the Nashville Scene, All the Rage, The Tennessean, The City Paper, Dig Magazine, The American Spectator, WORD Magazine (UK) and others.

My pet peeves almost all involve poor driving. They include: people who back into parking spaces, people who don’t use turn signals (especially when they’re on the phone), and people who stop ten feet before the actual stopping line at an intersection. I also dislike harmonicas in general and saxophone solos in rock songs.

I only play Ramones and Misfits songs on my ukulele. So don’t even request “Girl From Ipanema.”

Anything else you need to know?