A Work in Progress! After 25 years and multiple ownership changes, it appears that the current owners of my old KIH site (Earthlink, bought by Windstream last year) is doing away with web hosting. So, I'll be converting all my material to PDFs, and putting them up here.  Along the way, I'll be doing some editing and other revisions.

Bio: I was born many, many moons ago in a rust belt town in SW  Ohio that, after I moved away, tried to draw attention to itself by officially adding an exclamation point to its name for a few years. Despite only living up there for eight years, I still feel a bond to the Cincinnati area. Since 1975, I've lived in various areas of southeastern Kentucky (Manchester, London, Corbin, then back through them in reverse order).

I started collecting comics in 1984, as a senior in high school, and discovered gaming at Transylvania University in 1985 (a real school, I kid you not). I spent the next few years playing such varied games as AD&D, Space Opera, Twilight: 2000 and Champions. It wasn't until early 1988 that I discovered Robotech comics, which led me into my current hobbies of anime collecting, and being a Palladium know-it-all. In May of that year, I actually played the Robotech RPG under Kevin Siembieda at Marcon 23, and was hooked.

Since then, I've tried to get a college degree (off and on), while running games and writing fanfic and gaming material in my spare time. My games are erratic, but tend to get twisted, and sometimes metaphysical. Due to health reasons, I've pretty much fallen off the con circuit, after attending Marcon in Columbus 21 straight years, and being staff for Sugoicon & Anime Central from their inception, until 2007. In fact, my health was so stressed by then (undiagnosed type 2 diabetes and blood pressure) that I was getting sick at the two anime cons above, and was so out of it by Sunday, that to some I appeared to be under the influence of something (when, in fact, I've never used drugs, and can count the times I've drank alcohol on my fingers, with some left over). It got so bad, I ended up  not looking for a job after my last one ended the next year. By the time I had my health issues under control, I was having to help care for my aging mother. 

In recent years, I've started attending a small con in Chattanooga called Libertycon, which has an attendance of under 1000 (actually capped at 1000), where even the guests (except the main Guests of Honor) and staff pay their way (as it benefits charity). About 15-20% of the attendees are semi-professional/self-publishing or professionally published authors, artists or editors, not counting folks like myself that have had only small things published. 2020 & 2021 would have been fun, but COVID got in the way (and it finally got the con to examine whether or not it could legally expand to more than 750, as that was the original cap created when the con was - until they went through the funding documents from the 80s with a lawyer, they weren't sure if the cap was adjustable without losing their tax status. Luckily, it was in the area that could be amended). And, it's a good thing, too - as the registrations for 2020 (all rolled over to 2021, and now to 2022) sold out in 29 MINUTES, after going on sale a month after the 2019 con, 11 months BEFORE the (now canceled) 2020 dates. The additional 250 got filled by JUST the existing waiting list, and there's still a short waiting list if anyone drops out between now and the con.

Writing Credits: 

"The ABP-Z4 REF Zentraedi Assault Pod" = An article here first, it was printed in issue #5 of The Rifter!

"Morlock's Revenge" = A short-lived biweekly comics review column that appeared on the Transylvania University BBS in 1985-86.

"The Marcon (21) Report": A report I wrote for a class in 1986, edited into an article for the Lexfanzine (later named Low Orbit) SF semi-prozine by one of the editors (I'd originally did the report for a college class), Issue #32.

"Forum", Dragon Magazine: Letters that appeared in issues #143 and #163.

Protoculture Addicts: one letter in the letter columns.

"The Subemeco": Sue Bennett College's school newspaper. 1993-1994 school year, multiple articles (at least one per issue).

Old affiliations:

Various gaming groups in SE Kentucky, starting with the now-defunct Hobby Center Gamers in 1985-86, and continuing to this day. Currently, I'm running games in Corbin, KY at a friend's place. If you're local, ask if there's room for you. (current game is AD&D, with possible Battletech, Robotech or Rifts games possible)

LexFA (The Lexington Fantasy & Science Fiction Association): Since 1988. We get together for picnics, parties and trips to various events several times a year.

Anime Central: 1998-2007, Registration staff.

Sugoicon: 2000-2007. Most of this was as assistant DH for registration, before health became an issue

Anime Cincinnati: 1993-2000. Club now defunct, evolved into the core staff for Sugoicon. I was driving weekly or biweekly to attend the club, a 350 mile round trip. Some of my fellow club members went on to become Ral Partha Battletech sculptors or subtitling staff for several anime licensors/importers.  

Updates:

14 April 2023: After the Bomb / TMNT mutant Animal reference chart added.

09 October 2021: There's been several updates since August 2020 that I've forgotten to update.

Several of my remaining files were moved over from other locations. This includes

1.  My reviews of the KidsLogic Robotech minis, and the so-called miniatures game.

2. Three essays on Robotech that I had on a rarely-used blog (I found using Facebook was easier)

3. The late Chris Meadow's writeup of the Garland and Hurgand mecha from the Robotech Movie (was originally part of the long-gone steelfalcon.com "Third Invid War" page)

4. A summation of a Riftech campaign (Dolza triggered the Cataclysm) that I ran last decade, and plan to eventually resume.

5. There's more files that will be added over the next few weeks.

Also added are a 3-file compilation of the Conversions of the Mechanoids RPG to MDC. These were the ones from Palladium Update, The Magic of Palladium Books, and the failed "The Mechanoids" comics (half-comic, half-RPG, only 3 of the 5 comics (60 RPG pages) were published), with the AbM Mechanoids included in a partial state only for comparison.

20 August 2020: All pages now have some content

Fanfic: Several of my stand-alone fanfics that had pre-existing PDF versions have been added. But, The Freeman Chronicles will have to wait until I can make a new editing pass (the old PDFs have some content that I changed by the time I started posting on fanfiction.net). A link to fanfiction.net was added if you can't wait.

Gaming: I've added a subsection for pages that were created by others, then modified/completed by me. 

My Yearly Internet Repost for the Holidays, the "CS Turkey Commando RCC", was added as a PDF. 

Several of my stand-alone Robotech files have been added, as well as preliminary versions of my writings on weapons in the Palladium system (especially the Mega-Damage ones). The latter were needed to go with....

Adventures: Both "The Korra'ti Incident" and "Free Lunch (TANSTAAFL)" convention scenarios have been added. The latter required the weapons files, and is currently missing most of the pre-generated characters.

Other: A number of family recipes, and the stories of my gaming groups' misadventures over the last 30 years have been moved here from Facebook.

Next Up: I'll be converting several more gaming files to PDF, and working on new versions of the weapons files (especially a more in-depth treatment of the Small Arms article, which is currently just a critique of the utter lack of factual knowledge about firearms for a Rifts Chaos Earth supplement - but those mistakes appear in most of the Palladium books of the last 25 years in one form or another).

Old Web Rings

(no Idea if any of them still exist - I had taken over some of these from others but misplaced my login info a decade ago so can't update their code). If they still exist, hopefully they were adopted by someone.