Profile

I'm am high-functioning autistic. Religion: atheist. Politics: very liberal. Pro-choice, anti-gun/Jesus.

By day, I'm an arrogant, condescending, and tempermental computer programmer; by night, a husband; father; filmmaker; businessman; tailor; and woodworker; the proportions vary by time of year and workload.

If you like your music live, accoustic, and Celtic/American, played with more talent than actual skill, I'm your man. I play a 2002 Taylor 510 LE, with a Martin-style neck and Martin GoldLine pickup, a 1994 Samick Accoustic 6, and a Davy Stuart ZX10 Irish Bouzouki. (If none of that means anything to you, don't worry about it.)

Coffee: Roasting my own, Roasterie, Starbucks, battery acid, Folgers etc. In that order.

Not a huge fan of TV.

My librarian is an orangutan. (Again, if you don't understand, don't worry about it.)

I grind (and sometimes roast) my own coffee beans, own a $350 coffee machine and a $450 espresso machine, and am seriously (some would say dangerously) caffeinated before 10:00 most mornings.

You can find me making music with Jump-2-3. I also have a blog for autism and suburban living at The Road Less Ordinary.

Did the ren fest performer-thing for thirteen years (many of you would know me as Bartholomew Q. Solace, the shire gravemaker from KCRF), and since 2001 or so I've worked in the Astral Apothecary booth at the Kansas City Renaissance Festival. Also, if you need tights, shirts, or accessories, we can take care of that.