: About Me

I am a long-time job gypsy, working in the sciences, engineering, social services, civil service, food services, operation of moving machinery and sales.

My education is equally schizophrenic, leading to frequent internal bickering. When I get bored, I like to unravel the loose satirical threads permeating current events and see what shakes out. Afterall, cultivating a hobby is the buzz-kill of boredom. Freelancing as a writer for several years has provided the thrill of the chase along with freedom of expression missing in my day jobs.

I currently live somewhere in the Midwest, with my wife and a parrot, at the end of a dead-end street where it's nice and quiet.

My passion is ...

making people think outside the box.

I know too much about ...

people.

My parents always told me ...

be coolly confident, not cruelly conceited

My childhood ambition ...

was to be rich by 40. Missed it by THAT much....

My favorite memory ...

is the first time I looked up and saw an airplane

Why I write ...

Because I can't sing or dance.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

I'm watching the world run recklessly with scissors

My first job ...

I got fired from

My best moment ...

passed much too quickly

My inspiration ...

is my mother, who taught me not to fear success.

Creative Writing > Satire Satire: The future

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If you believed the futurists of the 1960's, we should be approaching utopia by now. Shows like "The 21st Century" hosted by Walter Cronkite painted a rosy, though sometimes naive portrait of the future. Well, pardon me while I start up my rocket belt with a punch card. Numerous science fiction writers of the era envisioned a world of exploration and advancement unlike anything ever imagined. Instead it appears that the space-faring, technologically advanced society envisioned by the likes of Asimov, Heinlein and Clark, has been supplanted by an over-medicated, over-advertised cyberpunk so...

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