Hey there! Most of you probably know me from the Hugh Hart stories ALTHOUGH, I also do music. Anyway, I landed in Los Angeles in 1999 and spent a year managing a website before jumping ship to work in my socks from the baking-hot home office in Sherman Oaks. After a brief home ownership misadventure in Van Nuys, AKA Helltown, I've now re-located to Studio City.From here I contribute a weekly movie column for the San Francisco Chronicle and cover television, architecture, theater, design and new media for the New York Times, Wired Magazine, Los Angeles Times and elsewhere.

Music includes Work Songs, which I recorded shortly before moving from Chicago to Los Angeles in 1999. My new How to Be a Millionaire album nears completion.

The twisted path from rock and roller to journalist included a stint as a website designer and editorial producer for Tribune Media Services. Track my gigs back in the Old Country on my Resume. Alternately, check out the Fonts-Gone-Wild Version.

My first site Hughville has cartoons, music and other stuff I figured out after teaching myself HTML at the Highland Park, Illinois library.

Got away from it all for a three-month 1996 sabbatical on Pawley's Island in South Carolina. Here's are a couple of beach shots featuring my faithful companion -- Ladies and gentlemen, it's . . . the wonder dog, Lulu. And, more recently, the runaway Huck