About Five Bucks to Friday

Five Bucks to Friday is about Ron, Jen, Pete and Lissa and their day-to-day lives in New York City. I used to call the strip the Lilypad, although it really only existed in my sketchpads when it was known as that. For some reason, a few weeks before I decided to actually launch the site, I changed it to the much-less easy-to-remember Five Bucks to Friday, as I was drawn to the idea of being fresh out of collitch and not particularly wallet-ful. Seemed like a good place for the characters to be. Of course, I hardly ever mention the fact that they're all just this side of broke. Well, whatever.

I update Monday through Friday, and I'm pretty good about updating either right at midnight or eight in the morning. If I miss a day, I generally have a pretty good excuse. I'd post an FAQ if anyone actually ever asked any questions. Want to know something? Hit me up.

About the Blog

Basically where I ramble and post a lot of links (got a good one? drop it in the comments), try to make intelligent points, and routinely succeed in making myself sound crazy. I tend to talk about politics a lot - especially around the elections, if you ever go into the Archives - and I realize that that's not always the best way to make friends and cultivate a readership. So, I'm trying to consciously push off any political talk towards the bottom of each newspost these days, to let my non-lefty readers get a nice dose of blog without having to listen to me wail and gnash. See? I'm trying to be nonpartisan. Really. It's just so hard because Bush is almost without argument the worst president in the history of the country. And I say almost only because he's basically calling plays out of Nixon's playbook, so it's hard to say with clarity.

About the Frog

I am 29. I live in Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn, with my wife, the loverly 2.0. Prior to living in Windsor Terrace, I spent three and a half years in Astoria, NY. For those of you not familiar with Astoria, NY, three and a half years there is wa-a-a-a-a-a-ay too long to spend in Astoria, NY, unless one happens to be a native of Astoria, NY.

I work at a relatively generic office. No one knows what I do there, including myself.

My actual calling is as a writer. I've written a few novels, the first of which will hopefully eventually see the light of day.

I am from a small town - Delanson - in Upstate New York. We used to have cows. I chop wood like a motherfucker. I'm an only child. My driveway was a quarter-mile long. My dad would make do utterly miserable things with the promise that it built character. My mother would make me eat red Jell-o from time to time using the same rationale. I don't really know what my objection to red Jell-o was in the first place, but back in the day, I really couldn't stand the stuff.

I went to Notre Dame. It's a strange but absolutely wonderful place. You kind of leave with a strange perspective. But I loved it, and I love going back there. It's one of my favorite places on the planet. Ireland, Cinque Terre, Cozumel, and Fenway Park are also all up there. As are, I'm sure, a million other places that I can't think of right now.

As I said in the little section about the blog, I am a liberal. I can't stand conservatism. It just doesn't make any sense to me.

I'm really long-winded.

And bad at ending things.

See?