Here's me, the nutshell version:

* I write articles about interesting things like the end of Dubai, being a conflicted carnivore, how Martha Wainwright is the new Piaf, and the dive bar as religion.

* I co-founded and publish Wish You Were Here, inspiring travel, one nifty place at a time, with Manhattan User's Guide's Charlie Suisman, who is far more clever and talented than he lets on.

* I traveled from Connecticut to the tippy-top of Maine, eating at lobster pounds and clam shacks, to write New England's Favorite Seafood Shacks, a food-travel scrapbook. I sampled 156 lobster rolls and found out that interviewing fishermen often involves getting up really early and drinking beer for breakfast. But it was worth it: The book is in its third printing, and I now get comped a second bag of oyster crackers at select establishments on the seaboard.

* I also co-founded and contribute to the skint, a daily missive curating NYC on the free and cheap. Thousands of people read it every day, saving their pennies.

* I preview the most interesting and generally worth-your-time events in New York for NBC every day, 365 days a year.

* And! I'm part of a hot jazz/dixieland outfit called the Hot Sardines. We play liquor-drinking music from the Prohibition era and thenabouts. You can check us out over here and find out where we're playing next.