Profile

Some people know me as the coatcheck person from the way-back Catwalk when people in black still went there every Saturday night. I used to be found out at the Vogue and the Mercury fairly often and I still miss MachineWerks but now I'm more hermited in my house overlooking the Sound watching the eagles and listening to the water . . . and trying to prevent the cats from killing each other.

I'm a grad school drop-out. I completed about half of the work towards a Masters in Music Composition. Right about the time I was finishing my Bachelor of Music in Oboe Performance I at long last came to terms with my pure hatred of performance and my unwillingness to subject myself to life as a symphonic whore playing only the standards that I was less interested in. So I finished my degree and then continued my education in composition. Then I got sidetracked and moved to Seattle. I generally do not regret straying from that path. Occasionally I miss the more dedicated involvement in art and academia, but my education serves me well towards creating a richer, more interesting life. Music, writing, tech. work: They are all related modes of thinking as far as I'm concerned.

There are other details about me that I don't generally talk too much about, like my Catholicism or my workers-rights Socialist views. I have strong views on orientation and gender roles and sometimes I air them.

I love words and ideas and so I write things, here and elsewhere, including for two very specialized blogs: Gongfu Girl: Discovering the way of tea, one cup at a time, which is all about tea and Kunstmobil: The Plastic Arts of PLAYMOBIL®.

If I know you I might add you to my Friends list and I have a tendency to add people after I've had some sort of positive interaction with them in person or if I accidentally identify who they are or if they post things I find interesting. I also sometimes add people I have not met in the flesh if there seems to be a compelling mutual interest or intent. Don't be alarmed. No expectations.

All of our books are on , along with several reviews written by either of us.