The Official Chris Peloso Fan Club

Things To Know About Me:

I live in Washington DC (actually in the Virginia suburbs).

I used to live in San Francisco, and I like the West Coast better than the East Coast.

I have three Master's Degrees; Nuclear Physics, Environmental Engineering, and Biochemistry. For some reason in 2006 decided I had enough time to go to Georgetown Law School at night and get a JD. I really have no desire to become a lawyer though, I'm just doing it for fun.

I'm not as bright as you might think from looking at my diplomas.

I'm a consultant for the US Government. Mostly I do counterterrorism and policy stuff related to nuclear weapons. That may sound exciting, but it mostly just involves going to boring meetings.

I used to work helping the Army properly dispose of leftover chemical weapons that have been sitting around since the 50s. They didn't give me much to do at that job though.

Before that, I used to work for the Dept. of Defense, but I didn't like it.

I don't eat meat, and yes, I consider fish and shellfish to be meat.

I've written two novels, both of which were published and are available on Amazon: City of Pillars, and Adopted Son. I'm working on #3.

I try to be well rounded, considering that I'm a scientist.

I own a foosball table.

I sometimes contribute to a DC-specific blog called DC Metroblog

I don't like George Bush.

I make two web comics. The first is called www.tinyghosts.com. It's a weekly comic and is creepy and depressing, as opposed to funny.

The second one is pretentiously titled, "Even in the Deepest Heart of Chaos a Glimmer of Order can be Found" That's a daily, and it's made up of randomly generated photos from the internet, with funny captions added by me. It's hard to explain.

I always respond to emails within 4 hours, unless I'm asleep.

Here's the wacky biography that is in the back of my first novel, City of Pillars:

The name 'Chris Peloso' has a Kabbalistic value of 284.

Despite being very well rounded, he is usually obtuse and is rather pointed despite not being too sharp. He holds two MS degrees from Berkeley, and is working on a third at JHU. He knows how to build a nuclear weapon, and has taught classes in the subject at the Joint Military Intelligence College. Due to what can only be attributed to a clerical error, he has been allowed to freely roam the halls of the Pentagon, CIA, NSA, and a few places that don't even officially exist. He is currently developing environmentally friendly ways to dispose of chemical weapons left over from the Cold War. Besides writing subversive novels, his hobbies include; esoteric gnostic religions, hermeticism, tribal art, ethical philosophy, particle physics, environmental extremism, 20th century literature, feng shui, international politics, '80s dreampop, and several other things that absolutely no one else seems to be interested in. Although he sometimes wears black, he adamantly denies being affiliated in any way with the Knights Templar, Illuminati, or the Rosicrucians.

Things I like:

Music:
Dreampop, Shoegazer, Belle & Sebastian, Decemberists, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Explosions in the Sky, Death Cab for Cutie, Matt Pond, My Bloody Valentine (MBV), Flying Saucer Attack (FSA), Spacemen 3, Cocteau Twins, Joy Division, Aphex Twin, Pixies, His Name is Alive (HNIA), Yo La Tengo, Wedding Present, Sundays, Stone Roses, Field Mice, Pale Saints, Dead Can Dance (DCD), Lush, and my all time favs, The Smiths.
Here's a full list of All of my cds.

Literature:
Chuck Palahniuk, William Burroughs, Don DeLillo, Grant Morrison, Dave Eggers, Laura Esquivel, Kurt Vonnegut, Gabrial Garcia Marquez, Henry Miller, Dave Sim, Walt Whitman, Marcus Aurelius, Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, Vachel Lindsey, Dylan Thomas, Oscar Wilde, Jack Kerouac, and my all time favs, J.D. Salinger and Thomas Pynchon.

Visual Arts:
Rothko, Lichtenstein, Kandinsky, Miro, Calder, or anything 'tribal' or 'ancient'.

TV Shows I make time to watch:
Daily Show, Battlestar Galactica, Family Guy, Insomniac, CNN Headline News.

Fav Movies:
Fight Club, Casablanca, Princess Bride, Animal Crackers, Sixth Sense, Pirates of the Caribbean.

Organizations I give money/time to:
Greenpeace, Amnesty International, World Wildlife Fund, CHOAS, Union of Concerned Scientists, Nature Conservancy, Green Party.

Other Things I like to do/talk about:
Spirituality, International Travel, Philosophy, Conspiracy Theories, Writing, Playing Bass Guitar, Making Pottery, Drinking Fancy Tea, Riding my Motorcycle, San Francisco.

Here are some of my other web sites. As you can guess, I've got way, way too much time on my hands...

Pictures from my trip to Peru Chris Goes to Peru

Pictures from my trip to France Chris Goes to France

You can read my novel, City of Pillars

Here's a full list of All of my cds.

And of course, my webcomics, www.tinyghosts.com, and Even in the Deepest Heart of Chaos a Glimmer of Order can be Found

You can email me at superluminal23@yahoo.com

Or, IM me on AIM. My screenname is superluminal32

Or, feel free to add me to Friendster, MySpace, or Facebook.

Here are some more pictures of me. None of them are very good:

	This is my room.
Here I am in the Basque country.	Here I am in an ancient cave in Peru.
	Here I am in front of a church in southern France.

Here I am at work.