Chicken Soup 4 The Damned

We cannibals must help these Christians.
--Herman Melville

About You

Being a decent person matters to you. However, devoting your earthly life to preparing for Eternal Paradise just doesn't appeal to you all that much. The First Circle of Hell may be for you.

About the First Circle of Hell

• documented residents:
  • Homer
  • Socrates
  • Plato
  • All unbaptized infants
• also qualified:
  • Charles Darwin
  • Enlightenment Era Deists, such as the authors of:
    • the Declaration of Independence
    • the US Constitution
  • Liberace

About Me

I was born and raised in New Jersey, and finished an art education in New York City. I continued working as a supermarket cashier, as I had during school, for two more years in an economy bad enough to thwart a presidential reelection. To give myself time to review my career options -- to continue looking for something to enthusiastically devote my time to -- I surrendered my freedom and enlisted in the US Air Force.

I got lucky and, instead of getting handed a spatula, I was put on the team to install and maintain, among other things, the first classified Web server at US Strategic Command in Nebraska. After my enlistment ended, I picked up some Web development experience during the Northern California technology boom. I'm now in Fanwood, NJ, working part-time as a front-end coder.

About Chicken Soup 4The Damned

Because wider access makes building consensus without you more difficult, establishing and maintaining a personal Website is probably in everyone's best interest. In such a spirit is this site maintained.

This weblog used to be called How Not To Fly but I got tired of confusion over the title driving readers away. I may as well drive them away with sacrilege.

Other sites by me:

• TheDevilsDictionary.com (2003 SXSW finalist)
• King-Spot.com