Hi there. THEY JUST KEEP COMING ON, my folk song about the mess in Washington D.C., went live in August with harmonicas wailing. I also posted a music video for Come Out Swinging, a revolution-meets-female wrestlers rocker featuring my Chicago guitarist J.D. Dragus.

But most of you probably know me from MY STORIES for Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Morton Report, and 2011 Webby Award Best Writing Finalist Wired.com.

Back to MUSIC: I recorded a ten-song CD How To Be a Millionaire and hammered out a new muscial called Wrecking Ball in 2010. I collaborated this winter on a new song with soul singer Lonnie Gordon and now, I'm rounding the corner on my new record Idolizer which I hope to complte by summer.

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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