Presently I serve as president and founder of NuCity Publications Inc., owner of "Weekly Alibi " and alibi.com . I am hoping to create a "second career" as an artist or writer. I have been actively pursuing these creative goals since 2006 when I retired from the day-to-day managing of the newspaper and website.

Background:
I was born October 2, 1967 in Madison, Wisc. and lived with my older brother and younger sister in Lodi, Wisc., a small German Catholic farming community. I attended art school for several summers and regular art classes throughout middle and high school, but dropped out before completing the tenth grade. I later received my G.E.D. and attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison, "stopping out" briefly to pioneer the internationally acclaimed Onion" newspaper. I sold "The Onion" then finished my final year at UW-Madison earning a B.A. in philosophy in 1990. After living for a year in Brazil, I eventually landed in Albuquerque in June 1992, never having been to the Southwest.  On October 9, 1992 I published the first edition of "NuCity," the newspaper that would later be renamed "Weekly Alibi" and become New Mexico's second largest newspaper.
From 1981 to present I have traveled extensively throughout Canada, Latin America and most recently spent a year in Valencia, Spain with my wife. I am a fluent speaker of Portuguese and nearly so in Spanish. I have received several language certifications awards, community and charity recognitions from my work as a newspaper publisher, and once placed first in all age groups for competitive artificial fishing lure casting at the Ace Hardware in Sauk City, Wisc.
I consider myself a prolific and wide-ranging reader, and have been writing daily journal entries for more than 25 years. I have published hundreds of articles, though admittedly mostly in my own newspapers, and have talked for years about writing a screenplay without actually going to the trouble of doing so.

My Art Works:
I have, throughout my life, attempted to achieve as creative an existence as is possible.  However, once I was required to feed and cloth myself instead of committing myself completely to my art—in the great tradition of the starving artist—I choose to build a business that with luck would create lifelong financial security for me while embodying the balanced Japanese tradition of pen and sword. Newspaper publishing seemed the perfect fit, allowing for expression of my own creativity while uniting a group of creative minds around me, in service to the community.
I enjoy a rudimentary self-taught knowledge of woodworking and have created several pieces of rustic furniture and sculptures of wood. I have been taking pictures for many years but was never clever enough to keep track of my photos as a body of work. I also have most recently discovered wrapping wire sculptures, which I feel is closest to my most original artistic expression. I have been drawing and painting for many years, in oil, watercolor, acrylic and Sumi ink.
While living on the ocean in Spain I began to produce work based on the traditional Japanese fish inking method called Gyotaku. I also scouted out Valencia's oldest and most beautiful manhole covers and figured out how to create relief rubbings from them. It was also there that my lifelong fascination with commercial art and logos helped me to create my first-ever series of collages. Since I have returned to New Mexico I have been finishing various pieces begun prior to our sabbatical year in Europe, as well as beginning many new pieces. The vast majority of my artwork is nature-based, which may either be the result of a personal philosophy that emphasizes the ultimate futility of great truths, while highlighting the irrefutable majesty of nature … or perhaps it is simply a hillbilly upbringing so apparent in my life choices.