Me at the piano in Studio City, California on Feb. 17, 2011. Photo credit: Noah Banks.

Hi there. Most of you probably know me from MY STORIES for Los Angeles Times, Wired Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, Fast Company and 2011 Webby Award Best Writing Finalist Wired.com.

On the music front, THEY JUST KEEP COMING ON, my song about the crap economy and mess in Washington D.C. got mixed this month by producer Lee Popa (Ministry, Cheap Trick, White Zombie). In similar vein, my music video for Come Out Swinging, a revolution-meets-female wrestlers rocker features Chicago guitarist J.D. Dragus. In 2010 created a BMI Workshop finalist musical called Wrecking Ball. I'm working with on my new record Idolizer, set for release in early 2012.

I grew up in the Old Country - - Chicago - - and moved to Los Angeles' posh Pacific Palisades neighborhood in 2000 to manage a Tribune Company website. After a year, I jumped ship and re-located to Sherman Oaks followed by a brief home ownership misadventure in Van Nuys, nicknamed Helltown by my wife Marla.

I now live in Studio City. From the baking hot home office here, I blog daily at Wired.com, write a weekly San Francisco Chronicle movie column Industry Buzz, cover art, design and architecture for Los Angeles Times, report on hyper-local stuff for AOL's Studio City Patch and contribute TV features to the New York Times.

The twisted path from rock and roller to journalist included a stint as a website designer and editorial producer for Tribune Media Services. Ride the Wild Resume to track my fonts-gone-wild work history.

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

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