I like dancing, motorcycles, driving my convertible, swimming and listening to music. I would do it all at the same time except I haven't figured out how to steer a motorcycle and a car at the same time while swimming with a walkman on.

I'm an avid reader and music collector. I've travelled a lot and played in bands. I have five books of poetry. I've been an arts administrator, graphic designer, geologist, publicist, manager, radio disk jockey, photographer, roadie and student. Not to mention swamping out betting shops and unloading container vans. I've swum, shot and fenced competitively. I've never been married, a parent, a dog person or wanted to live in the USA.

I have lived in Brazil, Libya, Indonesia, Singapore, Spain, Scotland and Canada. I've visited Italy, France, Germany, Malaysia, Borneo, Thailand and Russia. The most dangerous place I've ever been is Los Angeles, California. I was in Libya for the Six Days War, Singapore for the Communist Insurgency and Britain during the Summer of Bombs and nobody shot at me there.

I'm an ex-smoker (1989 was my last cigarette) and I like single-malt Scotch, particularly Lagavulin. Oh, and beer. The best beer in the world is made right here in Calgary by Big Rock.

I still take pictures but not photographs, I still putter with my bass but am not in a band, I still write and publish poetry, I still listen to and buy music but don't broadcast any more. These days, in between being a geologist/manager I still do some graphic design work and just put up the site for parole, a spoken word/poetry/performance art event that happens monthly here in Calgary.

Some people collect plates or spoons or antique automobiles. I seem to have collected hairstyles. And if hasn't become obvious yet, I have a bizarre sense of humour.

OK, I could run you through my record collection (suffice it to say I still have and listen to LPs [long live analogue!] even though I usually have to buy new music on CD) but instead, why don't I point you to some of my more-and-less deranged friends. There's Andy, who spends too much time with NT (poor baby), Al, who spends too much time at the Ship (Big Rock should give him frequent drinker points) (I blame it on Windows 95 myself), and Chris who sent me this silly animation of himself. There's Clint, who took the photo above and recently got off the 'net in protest against the digital invasion of photography. He will only buy cameras older than he is.

Then of course there's Ty and Al and the boys from the Plaid Tongued Devils, who are Calgary's finest klezmer-goth-wank-Celtic band. You will eventually be able to see a picture of Mike's bike, which doesn't run of course (blame Lucas, Prince of Darkness [no mom, it's a motorcycle joke]). His partner Heather runs the Edgewise Cafe and Electrolit Centre out in Vancouver. They are part of the Telepoetics circle, a cool re-appropriation of technology on behalf of poetry and communication. And a cool site. Elizabeth, who used to sing for the Animal Slaves, now runs a poetry site at NHWQ that has won three website awards. Marco, another of my pals who now knows too much about UNIX, runs the electronic salon, another pit-stop in the spaceless machine. His partner Alexis the Artistic Director of Maenad, Western Canada's premiere woman-centred theatre company.

George teaches Yoga-A-Go-Go after ten years of practice. After one year of trying, he has actually gotten me to go to a class! He is a member of the Drunken Poets Society, along with myself, Kirk, Marilyn, Sheri-D and a whole host of irregulars. Richard played saxophone with me at January's parole. T just moved here with his new wife (perfect timing - moving here from lotus-land just in time for the coldest winter in 30 years). jb runs a big energy website server, in between renovating bathrooms in search of a better recording studio (yes, I know you've got dirt on me) and learning to log-roll in his kitchen. Sonny plays guitar with Bootsauce, and cuts fusion jazz records with his dad.

I have family spread all over Canada (and now in California). Brother Dave is a mariner working the Vancouver coast, sister Catherine retired from Dance at the relatively old age of 30 and is now doing a post-grad in scriptwriting for film. Grandma and some of my cousins live in Regina (don't ask - historical reasons). Mum travels back and forth between her mother's and her children's places.