About Me

Mom and GrandmaI grew up in the bowels of Deltona, Florida (my good friend Jeffrey wrote the wiki for you). This small town, which you’ve likely never heard of, is nestled a snug thirty minutes between the festering metropolis of Orlando (home of such atrocities as Universal Studios and Walt Disney World) and Daytona Beach’s filthy shores. Despite the horror of Deltona’s public schools and the stench of its 60,000 inhabitants, I like to call the city home. I moved to Florida from where I was born in New York in 1984 when I was about six years old. Aside from Shirley Manson, the lead singer of Garbage (and perhaps my girlfriend), the two most important women in my life are the ones who raised me: my mom Evelyn, and my grandmother Ana.

I have five loves of my life: my girlfriend of eight years, Jacqui, and my four blood parrot cichlids, Cindy, Mindy, Sandy and Wendy.
Jacqui
Cindy and MindyWe bought the poor hybrids two years ago when they were two inches long, but today they measure about six. After surviving my care as well as a road trip in a cooler to Massachusetts, I think they can survive anything.

And though the fish came along, my friends did not. We had many adventures in Deltona, most of which were spent battling evil masterminds, mad psioncists, and brain-eating mind-flayers on planet Corscova. My hope is that one day, our decade-old role-playing game will come to rest in the covers of a novel, as a story about us, and everything we had imagined.

David, Jeffrey, and Jenna

Education

Stetson UniversityA lifelong sadist, most of my years have been spent being brainwashed by educational institutions. (Don’t worry, they haven’t got through to me yet.) I got my Bachelors from Stetson University in English and Creative Writing, where I worked on Stetson’s literary magazine, Touchstone, as editor-in-chief. I currently live in Boston, Massachusetts, and pursue a Masters degree in Writing, Literature, and Publishing at Emerson College, in hopes of entering a hopelessly Luddite industry.

Work History

In Deltona, there are only so many places you can work (all of which are technically located outside of Deltona): call centers, fast-food restaurants, department stores, and anything in between. So yes, I’ve manned the lemon-slushie carts and bussed the tables at Captain America (for you disgusting tourists!), dipped munchkins at Dunkin Doughnuts with ex-convicts, stocked dog food cans for infernal Winn Dixie managers, and scooped poop at public parks. The ex-convicts were kinder than the Winn Dixie managers, I might add. During my undergraduate years, I did Flash work for Media Services at Stetson University, when Adobe Flash was Macromedia Flash, and today I code and write copy for Genuine Interactive, a small digital marketing agency in Boston. My ultimate goal, as far as careers are concerned, is to one day work in an office stocked with a rain forest of stationery, thereby consummating my strange fetish for office supplies.

Today and Tomorrow

Aside from wasting my time on the Internet, I’m addicted to Netflix, I read science fiction novels, and I play RTS games on the PC. My favorite type of music — Trip Hop — died out in the late nineties, just as did Dungeons and Dragons and the rest of the tabletop role-playing game industry. I rank the nineties as my favorite decade since I landed on this planet, as I met the coolest group of gamers on Earth (pictured below) during those years, and learned the very important difference between AC and THACO.

Candido, Christina, Juan, Heather, and Jeff

* These sites’ designs were created by several badasses at Genuine Interactive (all the Flash too). I only coded them up on the front-end.