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. I play my original songs about sex, science and God, full of metaphors from math, physics, biology, the supernatural, comic books, Tibetan Buddhism, and role-playing games, at a monthly coffeehouse gig in San Diego, and at occasional science fiction conventions in various parts of California.

Live music

I perform with Eben Brooks at Lestat's Coffeehouse, 3343 Adams Avenue in Normal Heights, on the third Saturday of every month at 6 PM. No cover.

2009 shows:

• Saturday, March 21, 6PM
• Saturday, April 18, 6PM
• Saturday, May 16, 6PM
• Saturday, June 20, 6PM
• Saturday, July 18, 6PM
• Saturday, August 15, 6PM
• Saturday, September 19, 6PM
• Saturday, October 17, 6PM
• Saturday, November 21, 6PM
• Saturday, December 19, 6PM

Undead music (The machines steal our souls!)

I have a YouTube channel with footage from my concerts at Lestat's.

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.

"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.

The "LOL Together" lyrics.

An annotated version of the lyrics.

The "LOL Together" mp3 for your downloading pleasure!

Explicitly erotic weird fiction.

I write science fiction, fantasy, horror, and otherwise strange erotica. Sometimes it sells.

• "The Symbol for Intensity" is in the anthology From Porn to Poetry, a "best of" collection for the webzine CleanSheets. Strangely, it's not SF, fantasy or horror. It's just weird.
• "Tangaroa", an SF story in a world with ubiquitous nanotech, is in the anthology Best Transgender Erotica. Its post-nation-state future was inspired by Neal Stephenson's Diamond Age and Ian MacDonald's Terminal Cafe. It's such an interesting world that I have started another story and a novel in it.
• "Fragment from the Diary of Arabella B.", a pulp Victorian romp (which originated as a character diary in a Castle Falkenstein campaign), is in the Scarlet Letters archives, which one needs a subscription to access.
• "Little Predator" is in the anthology Blood Surrender, a collection of vampire erotica. 'Cause you know there's a national shortage of that.

I am currently struggling to finish more stories with the help of an eccentric writers' group called Weird Pudding. (At Clarion 2008, Cory Doctorow advised one of our members "not to put too much weird in the pudding". Our group largely ignores this advice.)

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 November 4, 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 various support functions for Conjecture 5. 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 (superheroes) and The Foam of Perilous Seas (privateers plying the seas of myth and legend) in GURPS, La Machine Diabolique (fin-de-siecle Parisian steampunk engineers) in the Castle Falkenstein universe using the Over the Edge system, and running the campaign Ottobre Solitario (occultists in Lovecraftian 18th-century Venice) in the Over the Edge system. I was a playtester on GURPS: Steampunk and GURPS: Supers (4th edition) and one of my claims to fame is that my name is on the credits page of both books. Way down at the bottom. In teeny weeny eye-strain-o-vision. You'll need a magnifying glass.