ABOUT      3 . 11 . 2010

un rêve dans le zoo du parc central

where I've lived: Marblehead, MA, Alexandria, VA, Springfield, IL, Amherst, VA, Charleston, SC, Santa Fe, NM, Asheville, NC, Davidson, NC, Boston, MA, Louisa, VA, and, currently, NYC

where I've gone to school: St. John's College, University of Utah, Warren Wilson College, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Davidson College, Skidmore College, Boston University, and, currently (in a manner of speaking), the University of Virginia.

I work at Bolt, where I'm a lightweight developer.

I have 2 younger brothers, a younger sister, two living parents, a cat, and Jennifer.

The site is named from a Wallace Stevens poem called A Primitive Like an Orb. It's not, actually,my favorite of his poems, but it's my favorite of his titles.

I've done a little other writing, here and there. I've even been written about once or twice. You can find such stuff, if you care to, in the following places:

An account of 9.11.01 I wrote for Fray:
Getting Closer

An article in the L.A. Times about blogging in the aftermath of the World Trade Center attacks:
"Personal Web Logs Put a Face on a Faraway Disaster"

An article in the Louisville, KY, Courier-Journal about the same:
"'Blogs capture more personal stories of tragedy"

And an article in the Dallas Morning News about, once again:
"Weblogs give fast man-in-street reports of disaster"; [reprinted here]

And some old things I've written

Reviews for Bookpage
Lost, by Hans Treichel
Illustrated Letters: Artists and Writers Correspond, ed. Roselyne de Ayala and Jean Pierr Guéno

Reviews for the Boston Book Review
The Figure Her poems Make: Maxine Kumin
Taking Things Seriously: CK Williams and Robert Hass
Light Motifs: Czeslaw Milosz

Review for Agni
Two Seconds: David Rivard and Stuart Dischell

The photos here have been taken with either a Canon Digital Elph — a digital camera about the size of a pack of cigarettes — or a Canon G2, a digital camera about the size of a brick of cheese. I use BB Edit as my html and php editor, which you probably know means I use a Mac G3 powerbook. I edit images and design whatever I feel like designing using Freehand and Fireworks. Dreamhost keeps the site up when they feel like it, which is like 9 days out of 10.

For sleep, I use a Serta mattress wrapped in at least 200-thread-count sheets. I drink Sierra Nevada and Anchor Steam, as though I were from California or something. I was raised to like meat and marshmallows burned on the outside and raw on the inside, and that's still how I like them.