Peace on earth, good will toward men

I find it highly offensive that Wikia is asking me for $1000 a year to keep WikiScum ad free. When I started the project FIVE YEARS AGO, there was no warning that Wikis here would be held hostage like this. Honestly, I never would have invested the 100s of hours to create and maintain a Wiki here if I knew I'd have to pay up the wazoo to keep it ad free. Small ads are acceptable, but these enormous ads are really over the top.

I discovered wikicities May 17, 2005 - it was recommended to me by Vik Reykja after I had told him about my vision for a Santa Cruz Underground Music (SCUM) wiki. I had for a longtime maintained a SCUM website (which I had inherited from Russ Granger). Because of other projects and occupations taking up my time, and because I dreamed of turning SCUM into a wiki but so no way to do it, the SCUM website went static. With the miracle of Wikicities, I now have a chance to create the SCUM wiki.

I am a musician. I also teach U.S. History, World History and Psychology in high school.

I grew up in Rochester, New York, lived in New York, New York for many years, and now reside in Santa Cruz, California. I attended University of California, Santa Cruz and received a BA in political science.