Boobooday -- My Story

I am currently a PhD student in Mass Communications at Indiana University. I am a critic, a writer, a teacher, and a producer of stories in both old and new media.

My research interest is political speech on the internet, and especially the way ordinary citizens are expressing their political opinions and emotions through software -- seizing the tools!

I have also seized the tools myself. Some of my favorites are Flash, Photoshop, Final Cut, and any software that edits audio and/or creates music.

I write fiction, film, movie and interactive scripts, poetry, song lyrics, and essays.

In order to be a good writer, (and to me that means a humane writer) you must be able to put yourself in another's place, and see the world from their point of view. This can lead to humbling, and painful, and joyful and astounding experiences. To be a storyteller is to have a love affair with humanity, in all its glorious imperfect-ness.

I am a political progressive, a strong believer in the promise of democracy, and an unabashed opponent of George W. Bush, and his plan for the corporatization/ privatization of everything, assigning a monetary value to every human action, and to humanity itself. I use my anti-Bush website as a place to vent, and maybe cheer up my fellow travelers a bit. According to Michel Foucault (quoting Beccaria) ridicule is the best way to bring down the fanatical.

Join me, won't you?

Remember, we are all stories, and if we listen to the narratives in our heads, we can choose the way of the hero.