Me, on the couch in Studio City with my runaway Afghan hound Huck.Most of you probably know me from the stories.
On the Music front, I recently finished my ten-song CD How To Be a Millionaire. This summer I'm hammering out a new muscial called Wrecking Ball. Back in the Old Country - - Chicago - - I recorded Wedge with my rockin' quartet of the same name. Shortly after completing my first solo record, Work Songs I came to Los Angeles' posh Pacific Palisades neighborhood and managed a Tribune Company website. After a year, I jumped ship and moved 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 and contribute TV features to the New York Times. I also serve as Brown Alumni Magazine contributing editor and deputy editor for Wired.com's Underwire blog.
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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