Hey there! Most of you probably know me from the Hugh Hart stories. I landed in Los Angeles in 1999 and spent a year managing a website before jumping ship to work in my socks from the baking-hot home office in Sherman Oaks. After a brief home ownership misadventure in Van Nuys, AKA Helltown, I've now re-located to Studio City. From the baking hot home office here, I write a weekly movie column for the San Francisco Chronicle blog daily for Wired.com/Underwire and cover television, architecture, theater, design and new media for the New York Times, Wired Magazine and Los Angeles Times.

I also do Music.Work Songs was recorded shortly before I moved from Chicago to Los Angeles in 1999. My new How to Be a Millionaire album nears completion.

The twisted path from rock and roller to journalist included a stint as a website designer and editorial producer for Tribune Media Services. Track my gigs back in the Old Country on my Resume. Alternately, check out the Fonts-Gone-Wild Version.

My first site Hughville has cartoons, music and other stuff I figured out after teaching myself HTML at the Highland Park, Illinois library.

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