Music
In 1985 and 1986, I was the singer in a hard-edged garage band.
The band played only 3 times under the names “Snail Death”, “Shuttle Dust”, and “S.D.”
The drummer (
Slava Prazdny) died in 1987.
From 1989 to 1999, I was the singer in another Bay-Area garage band called
Severe Tire Damage,
notable for being the
first band to perform live on the Internet
(so that gives me the dubious distinction of being the first person to ever sing a live-streamed song).
More interesting is that we once
opened for the Rolling Stones.
Yes, the picture on the right is me on Korean television, where I had a Warholian moment of fame back in 1997.
The band is currently moribund, following the death of our drummer (Mark Weiser) in 1999.
Catch a
2012 interview of the surviving members,
on the
History of the Internet project,
and a more recent
2022 documentary about how we “opened” for the Rolling Stones.
Writing
Since 2012, I have written five romance novels under the pseudonyn Sage Ardman.
I also have unpublished work, including two con-game novels, a memoir, and a set of short stories that feature nerds I have known.
Vaccine Safety Activism
I am the Director of Vaccine Research Analytics for the
National Vaccine Information Center.
My work centers on the U.S. Government's
VAERS data, a collection of vaccine injury reports going back to 1990.
I created the first website that lets people see VAERS (
MedAlerts.org),
and I did it in 2003, years before the government made its own site (
CDC Wonder).
I have maintained MedAlerts.org ever since, providing direct public access to this important government information.
