Who I am: Software Engineer for the Space Telescope Science Institute, at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore Maryland. Self-educated artist and craftsperson. Fledgling home owner. My inclination is to see for myself and make what I need. Who I've been: Your usual High School hamburger flipper School cartoonist, artist, occasional trouble maker. Stock boy in a mental hospital. Road crew for a rhythm & blues band. Freelance photographer. Downtown courier. Woodworker in a custom speaker shop. Architectural Modelmaker.
Photo circa 1960...growing up in Chillum, Maryland...

		What I am: Gay Anglo male of mixed European descent (English, Irish, Scottish, German). Somewhat average build. Not Muscular. Deep set gray-blue eyes, long brown hair. Fair complexion, moderate body hair. 5' 9"; 150lbs; 0k bullshit buffer. Easily Entranced By: Long Haired Boys Shostakovich, Rachmaninoff, Vaughan-Williams, Glenn Miller, Pink Floyd, Jerry Goldsmith, John Williams Frederic Church Paintings Lightning Max Fleischer, Tex Avery and Bob Clampett Cartoons Explosives Lamborginis, 50s American Automobiles, Harleys Sunsets, Stars... Birds (particularly Owls...)
Photo circa 1970...at 16 in High School art class, with a constant companion.

• Yap Radio
• Yap TV
• To Repeat These Options, Press Seven...
• The Washington Times
• My Last Chance To Save Up To 50 Percent
• Colorization
• Cassette Singles
• Reality TV
• Decaffe Mountain Dew
• Luxury 4WD Utility Vehicles
• Baggy Pants, Visable Boxers
• Inflatable Sneakers
• Bush V. Gore

• "Science and Human Values" by Jacob Bronowski
• "Coyote" by Peter Gadol
• The Last Herald-Mage Trilogy by Mercedes Lackey
• "The Boys On The Rock" by John Fox
• "The Impossible H. L. Mencken" by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers
• Anything by: Mary Renault; Ray Bradbury; Arthur C. Clarke; Harlen Ellsion

		Things Best Left Unsaid: "Have you met Jesus?" "Check out the tits on that babe over there..." "Hello, am I speaking to Mr. Bruce Garrett..?" "Is the network down?" "Did you watch Survivor yesterday?" "Try searching their Knowledge Base..." "Love the sinner..." "What's your sign?" "Gore would have been just as bad..." Artifacts found in the habitat: Video tapes of old Republic serials, Max Fleischer cartoons and assorted PBS programs. Four homemade computers next to a carefully restored typewriter Assorted 30s to 50s kitchen appliances Charcoal & ink drawings and oil paintings in various stages of finish A Mont Blanc 149 and Parker Duofold, one of which is usually in my shirt pocket An abstract metal sculpture of a streaking fireball titled "Skylab" A cookie jar...full surprisingly... A sign on the wall that says "Angry Candy"
Photo circa 1993...late 30s, still thin as a rail ...but not for long...

• Can read the instruction manual
• Can live without that 2.8 percent introductory APR
• Can program on Microsoft platforms without succumbing to the Dark Side
• Can read text of Bush V. Gore without bursting into flame

• Do they really think those pants look good on them...?
• Does he ever stop smirking...?

		Where I've been: Laying with a friend in the tall grass, stunned by a touch... Quickly washing my face and bandaging my hands before mom finds out I was in another fight. The end of an unemployment line, watching my companion's faces; surprised, resigned, angry, cheerful, stoic, afraid. In the principal's office where I'd been sent by a teacher who, after telling me I couldn't check out a library book because I was too young to understand it, found out I knew a good many more words then she'd supposed... Alone in my room with the lights out, sitting on the bed listening to my heart beating, immobilized by grief... Watching for meteors in the desert, staring at clouds in the sky that were not clouds at all but immense shoals of stars...
Busy at my drafting table working on a cartoon for the web site. Except I don't use my dip pens much anymore.

• For a walk, especially when I have something on my mind
• To book stores record stores and comic book stores...often
• To flea markets...too often
• To my computer table...far too often...except it makes me money...
• To my drafting table or my easel when it's time
• Down any path that looks interesting
• To a book or a symphony
• To my friends
• To the edge of the Pit, to the Silence, to the Fire

• Something I didn't know before.

Me Today

Essays

Some people lurk silently on line...some people speak their mind and damn the torpedos. I do a lot of both. Computer communication technology has fascinated me since I had my first Commodore C=64. As a Gay man, I've found this technology particularly beneficial. By allowing us to reach out to one another directly, regardless of how isolated our individual circumstances might be, we can see ourselves clearly as human beings, and not strange, alien Others. We are no longer forced to view ourselves through the eyes of heterosexuals, a subtle fact the majority still hasn't figured out yet.

Ocassionally I'll take something I've posted on line and develop it further. Most of these pieces have appeared in varous on line forums.

• 1987 -Letter on the Aniversary of Hardwick - Some wounds become part of the bedrock
• 1994 -Moving, and Dreams of Home - Even cliff dwellers put down roots...
• 1994 -What I learned about Homosexuality - I was none of the things I had been taught homosexuals were...therefore I must be a heterosexual...
• 1999 -Finding David - Sometimes art can be as intense as falling in love...

Fiction and Stuff

• 1978 -Silent Company - Cartoon fantasy, advertisement reality...
• 1990 -Bright Hunter - Poem