On Blogger since March 2009
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Writer and Teacher |
| Location | Japan |
| Introduction | AS A LITTLE BOY I was running around waving my hands in the air and making strange noises. I wasn't nuts...I was making up entire cartoons and movies inside my head, providing the voices and sound effects out loud. Weird as it might have looked, these were my first experiences of traveling to the Other Side. By sixth grade I was reading stories to my class and running D&D games. By eighth, I was writing novels. In high school I got into ritual magic and wrote two award winning plays ("Mara" and "The Wine of Violence," in the New York State Young Playwright's Contest 1987 and '88). In university and graduate school, I continued exploring other realities by getting a Master's in comparative religion. For the last ten years I've been literally living in a parallel universe, a curious realm called "Japan." Still writing, still doing magic, still playing RPGS, this is where I blog about it all. |
| Interests | Asia, Mythology, Folklore, Other Cultures, Paradigms, Roleplaying Games, RPGs, Magic, Fiction, Horror, Fantasy |
| Favorite Music | Tori Amos, Portishead, Nina Simone, Dead Can Dance, Lady GaGa, Sinead O'Connor, Simon Curtis, Live, Peter Murphy (of Bauhaus fame), Prince, Queen, Marilyn Manson, Eurythmics, Nine Inch Nails |
| Favorite Books | Focaults Pendulum, Mahabharata, Iliad, Odyssey, The Haunting of Hill House, 'Salem's Lot, Watchmen, Lovecraft, Conan, Elric, Tolkien |