greetings from west xylophone

H. Sebastian Toppum (a.k.a. Drosh)
Other places to find me:

My web-comic, Beware the Slumpy.
Drosh.net, various musings and an audio podcast.
Catsnot.com, a website for my films.

The longer version:

Grew up in New England, moved to New Mexico in December of 1999, returned to Connecticut in 2008. I make a web-comic, for my own amusement. (If anyone else is also amused, all the better. No, it's not always funny.) I've written a couple of novels, but haven't sought any publishing on them. I also make short films, you can see some of them here (if any will show in any film festivals, I'll certainly post something here, of course). I create other things, as well.

I work for an ISP, have a lovely wife and wonderful son. Loyal friend, happy husband, proud father, moody pretentious-artist bastard, can't stand idiots, loves too easily, insomniac. There's more than that; decipher it yourself.

Brief Cast List:

Dewshine (Dews): my wife and partner
Ray: our son

Sometimes I post friends-only, or privately (often just notes to myself). I have my own reasons for doing so. Don't fret about this and have a nice day; thanks!

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Note on Interests: I love lots of things. Some of them are on nearly everyone's interest list, so I shall list them here, rather than waste those 150 important slots: (cheese, cooking, dreams, food, history, movies, music, painting, poetry, rain, reading, writing...)
abandoned buildings, abstracts, acrylics, aimee mann, albuquerque, almost famous, american beauty, autism, barnum, being drosh, benchmarking, beware the slumpy, birding, birdwatching, bishop allen, brie, brioche, buffy, bunny bunny sausage train, catsnot.com, chagall, challenging the self, chaos, clove gum, comics, community, david sedaris, droids, electric violin, elfquest, exploding lemurs, faeries, fatherhood, film making, flow, found objects, ganesh, garmarna, geeks, geocaching, gjallarhorn, goth, hanuman, hedningarna, heinlein, hellblazer, hiking, hobbits, honesty, human watching, ira glass, jeff buckley, jordi savall, junk store photography, karaoke, kevin smith, kids, laurie anderson, letterboxing, linux, ljmaps_faelad, lou reed, mail art, mark tilden, minidv, modern fantasy, moxy fruvous, mst3k, my son, nature, negativland, neil gaiman, networking, new haven, noise, nordic roots, october project, open minds, oscar wilde, p t anderson, people watching, performance art, perl, piglet, plugra, poi dog pondering, pt anderson, r2-d2, ray johnson, rev. w. awdry, robotics, rowsdower, sandman, science fiction, scrabble, sensuality, shakespeare, silence, sky cries mary, snail mail, soulpits, spalding gray, spearmint tea, spoken word, spontaneous art, steam engines, surrealism, tea, the coen brothers, they might be giants, thinking, this american life, time, tmbg, tolkien, tom thumb, universal truth, urban anthropology, urban archaeology, urban fantasy, vespa scooters, violin, wandering aimlessly, warcraft, watching theferrett bait people, west xylophone, wow, writing letters longhand, yummy people, zines