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What's the deal with your nickname? How did you get it? If your nickname is self-explanatory, then tell everyone when you first started using the internet, and what was the first thing that made you say "wow, this isn't just a place for freaks after all?" Was it a website? Was it an email from a long-lost friend? Go on, spill it.

I'm a writer and stage director, working as Artistic Director for a university and also a community theatre.
I've been writing my own blog since 2005 because what writer (or anyone really) doesn't want global distribution of what I write? At one point, early in the blogging days, i signed up for a service that said they would, for free, convert my digital file into a radio signal which would then be sent into space. So i did. So not only am i global, i'm intergalactic, baby.