About Me

As a young boy growing up in a small rural town in western North Carolina, I had one simple dream: getting the hell out of a small rural town in western North Carolina.

Kidding, kidding! I love the South. Where else on Earth could produce both Flannery O'Connor and Lil' Wayne?

But I have always felt the pull of the big city, and the promise of action, adventure and all-night bodegas that come with it. I've lived in San Francisco, LA, and New York, and I've been lucky enough to work as a television editor for such networks as VH1, BET, CMT, Lifetime and The Travel Channel. I enjoy documentaries more than anything, though, and I'm currently doing research for my own: an investigation of that ongoing American obscenity we call the Drug War.

I'm also a writer forever straddling the line between fiction and nonfiction. Screenplays, skits, polemics, plays, blogs, short stories and personal essays: don't make me pick just one, I love 'em all. On True/Slant you'll find me in scavenger mode, digging up bits of interest from all corners of the internet (it has corners, right?). From politics to pop culture, from the truly idiotic to the truly inspired - it's all grist for the mill.

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