I was born in New York City on March 25th, 1977. According to the folks I came out wide-eyed and silent, and needed a good wacking to make sure I wasn't mute. I guess I've spent the last 25 years trying to find my voice.

I majored in fine art at F.H. LaGuardia High School for Music and Art and the Performing Arts, which some of you may remember as the "FAME" school. After a bout of derilictism, I left there to continue my education at City-As-School, an alternative high school from which I graduated valedictorian, after completing my credit requirements by taking college classes at the New School for Social Research (Now re-named the New School University.)

Who was it that said "It's better to be the best of the worst than the worst of the best"?