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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.

My latest and ongoingest project is the Guide to Moral Living in Examples, which totally isn't what it sounds like.

I try not to rely on others to do my research for me, but I wanted to write a story about dinosaurs that featured a question that I'd had for a long time.
The Yucatan question. The related story.


I play games with the good people of MeFightClub.

To the best of my knowledge, I coined the term "wolfman" to describe men with long, willfully unkempt hair (head and facial) who think that they look like Norse gods but in fact just smell of venison and despair. Wolf t-shirts, multi-tools in leather belt holsters and polyamorous relationships with female wolfmen may also make an appearance, though these are simply associated elements and mean little without the innate quality of wolfmanness. As an example, there is a goth variant of the wolfman who favors plastic vampire teeth and untrimmed fingernails instead of the above. Strangely, both variants of the wolfman enjoy silver jewelry.

Yes, I said female wolfmen. I'm not a mint.

Yes, I also have long hair. When it is unkempt and I forget to shave, I do not turn into a wolfman but rather a jackass.

I want a bagel or a hot dog.