As another Pomona grad said years ago when he saw me singing bawdy songs at a Renaissance Faire with my old band, "So this is what you do with a degree in Art History."
Actually, what I do for a living with the degree is translate Engineer into English for a large corporation. (Hey, it was a writing-intensive major.) All the stuff with performing, writing, and general geekery? That's just to make the living worthwhile.
"LOL Together, right now...OMG"
Eben Brooks and I recently wrote a lolcat parody of the Beatles' "Come Together". (When I realized that "walrus gumboot" could become "lolrus bukkit", the rest was inevitable.)
Mark Englehart of Sun, Moon & Stars Productions shot footage of us performing it at Lestat's Coffeehouse on March 15, 2008. The video is now on YouTube, as well as embedded below for your ROFLtainment.
An annotated version of the lyrics.
The "LOL Together" mp3 for your downloading pleasure!
Geeky music for geeky people. I am a singer-songwriter guitarist. I've been doing this since I was twelve, and doing it competently since I was sixteen. I performed with San Diego Celtic folk band The Wild Oats (not to be confused with the Wild Oats band from the UK) during the 1990s and started performing solo in 1999. My original songs about sex, science and God, full of metaphors from math, physics, biology, the supernatural, comic books, and role-playing games, can be heard at San Diego coffeehouses. Performing at Lestat's Coffeehouse, 3343 Adams Avenue in Normal Heights with Eben Brooks, all shows with no cover:
The song "Grandmother's Place", one of my most popular works, is about Coyote taking me down to Spider Grandmother's lodge to play my songs for a bunch of different divinities who are partying their asses off. The lyrics are here. You can download an mp3 of it here. 
Explicitly erotic weird fiction. I write science fiction, fantasy, horror, and otherwise strange erotica. Sometimes it sells.
I am currently struggling to finish and sell more stories with the help of the San Diego SF&F Writers.
Doing the fandom thing. I organize the San Diego Sci-Fi/Fantasy Meetup Group. We have monthly dinner meetings and also go to book signings, museum shows, science lectures and movies. Three times a year we have an enormous book swap; the next one is on July 1, 2008. I volunteer for San Diego SF&F convention Conjecture. I was programming second for Conjecture 1, programming head for Conjecture 2, con chair for Conjecture 3, publications and publicity head for Conjecture 4, and am taking it easy for Conjecture 5, helping out several departments but not running any lest my head explode. I served a two-year term on the Board of Directors of SanSFiS, the corporation behind Conjecture. I am a massive tabletop role-playing geek, currently playing in the campaigns Metahuman Vector in GURPS: Supers and The King's Men in FUDGE. I was a playtester on GURPS: Steampunk and one of my claims to fame is that my name is on the credits page. Way down at the bottom. In teeny weeny eye-strain-o-vision. You'll need a magnifying glass. I can be found on LiveJournal geeking out about a variety of topics as caprine. I am also known to show up at Darkstar, the San Diego Costumers' Guild, the San Diego Browncoats, and signings at Mysterious Galaxy Books.
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