Written by The One True b!X, a twelve-year resident of the Portland of Oregon born nearly forty years ago in upstate New York. A devout agnostic and misanthrope who aspires to be an at least passable rationalist, he believes that cynicism results only from first believing people are capable of better and then repeatedly being proven wrong.
He neither bikes nor dances nor dates nor drives nor drugs nor swims. He does, occasionally but with an increasing rarity, drink. Since the death of Myrln, he no longer smokes. He is a life-long resident of Red Sox Nation who, when not wearing his baseball cap, often can be spotted wearing a porkpie.
If events were pictures and emotions were sounds, his memories would play as silent movies. In all likelihood, his hate is rising like a beautiful bird.
In the imaginary world which exists nowhere outside of his own mind, he’s been tasked with making Not The Official Website Of Mutant Enemy, Inc. official and establishing for it an active social networking presence. In his head, it’s pretty awesome.
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When it comes to wishful thinking, he sometimes believes that in a more ideal world someone would hire him to make Not The Official Website Of Mutant Enemy, Inc. official, but also wonders if that’s only because he’s run out of interesting things of his own.
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Late in 1993, he uploaded to what, at the time, was an FTP archive in Australia a long and disjointed discourse on Twin Peaks entitled Beyond the Fire, his first ever contribution to the Internet.
Prior to moving to Portland, in 1995 he helped organize the S. 314 Petition, one of the first large-scale Intenet petition efforts, which sought unsuccessfully to prevent passage of the Communications Decency Act, although it did yield him an appearance in Rolling Stone.
Shortly after moving to Portland in 1997, he become co-owner (and then sole proprietor) of the Millennium Cafe, which he then ignominiously proceeded to run into the ground, but not before holding two successful July 4th events at which people read aloud the Declaration of Independence.
From late 2002 through late 2005, he published the critically-acclaimed Portland Communique, an experiment in reader-supported independent journalism whose departure is still lamented by some today, although likely not by the people who falsely accused him of taking bribes in exchange for coverage.
Sometime in 2003, he discovered The Finger, a zine apparently published by Swan Island shipyard workers during World War II, which he made available online and for which he has perpetually-delayed plans to make available as an on-demand reprint.
During the Summer of 2005, he maintained the primary fansite for Session 416, a series of viral videos promoting the then-forthcoming film Serenity, and in fact acted as the official initial release point for the second of the five clips, causing much fun and consternation as the site was hosted on his server at home.
In early 2006, he founded Can’t Stop the Serenity, an unprecedented annual global event consisting of locally-organized charity screenings of the Joss Whedon film Serenity to benefit Equality Now, which to date has raised more than $200,000, making it far more important than any of the many other Whedon-related fan efforts or websites for which he’s been responsible.
Late in the Fall of 2007, he helped launch Fans4Writers, a grassroots effort to support the Writers Guild of America in its strike against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, although he was involved only long enough to get the website up and running.
Provided by the powers that be with its logo and the contest rules, he designed, wrote, and maintained the official Evil League of Evil website for the two weeks in 2008 during which it was accepting entries into the contest to appear on the forthcoming DVD release of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog.
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