If you're a spammer or a telemarketer, go away. Permanently. I'd prefer that you threw yourself off an 80-story office tower wearing only a Batman costume and a few dozen heavy weights so you'll put yourself out of my misery.

If you're not trying to sell me something, get me to waste my money looking at pictures of poor girls who can't afford any clothes but can seem to afford boob jobs, enhance my anatomy, or get me to accept a multimillion dollar gift on behalf of the deposed President of the Nigerian National Bank, then I'm going to give you a convoluted way to get in touch with me in just a moment.

The email link below is NOT my main email address. It's my Yahoo account, which I check roughly once a week. I changed email addresses in early fall 2004 to save money and get rid of some of the spam I've been getting. I've learned the hard way not to give out my real email address or put a mailto link to it on a website. So it may take a while for me to get back to you, and I may miss your first message entirely. If you really, really want to reach me, you'll just have to keep trying. That tends to weed out frivolous contacts, too. If I decide you're somebody I really want to talk to, I'll send you my main email address when I reply to you. Sorry about the inconvenience, but until the Government does something about these #$%& spammers (castration without an anesthetic would be nice), you're just going to have to lump it.

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