What’s a nice Yank like me doing among all these accursed Redcoats? Well…
In 1995, my girlfriend Lauren followed me to Los Angeles, so that I could go to grad school for two years. I got a job working for Dennis Miller Live, and two years stretched into seven. We got engaged, and then married.
And then Lauren got a great job offer in London. It was long past due for Lauren to take her turn deciding where we would live. So we made the decision that I would give up my job at Dennis Miller Live, and we’d both move to London.
About a week later, Dennis Miller Live was canceled. It turns out I got the noble-sacrifice brownie points without making quite so much of a sacrifice as I had expected.
Since moving here, I’ve sold a sitcom pilot script to the BBC (although, sadly, it was never aired.) I’ve become a freelance contributor to The Onion. I’ve been commissioned by a European production company to write a feature script; an Oscar-winning director is currently attached to it (I’m too superstitious to mention him by name at this point.) And I’ve written a book called The Government Manual For New Superheroes, which is now available in stores near you. And keep an eye out for The Government Manual for New Wizards, coming soon.
I’ve also written and directed a few short films, one of which took me to the Berlinale Film Festival. My ultimate goal is to make a living directing my own feature film scripts. For now, I’m pretty happy just to be getting paid to write.

Welcome, new readers. For some time, I’ve been e-mailing columns about life in London (and, occasionally, beyond) to a small mailing list. In an effort to broaden my readership, I’m now putting those columns on the web.
If you’re wondering where to start, some of the most popular entries include On The Poetry Of London Place Names and American Patriot (both of which are quite short), as well as Truffle In Paradise (which is quite long), and Pitch, Pitch, Pitch and Scottish Delicacies, both of which are medium length.
Or you could start at the very beginning, with the first entry.Take your pick.
Incidentally, where there is a large gap between the time an event occurred and the time I wrote it up for Yankee Fog, I’ve indicated the real-life date at the end of the entry.