I grew up at Copper Mountain, Colorado, when the place was just a cluster of Stalinist concrete condominiums hulking amid the beaver ponds at 10,000 feet. I spent two years at the University of Colorado, then transferred to Brown University, where I majored in history and wrote fiction with Robert Coover and the late John Hawkes. All that prepared me to become the aluminum editor of the super-sexy magazine Metals Week in New York.

Bored with metal, I took a five-month trip to Southeast Asia with my soon-to-be-wife, Diana, then went to work at a fledgling Bloomberg News. After 23 years, I left there in November 2015 to see if there is an Anthony 2.0. I did non-journalism things that didn’t exactly fit, came to my senses, and went to work for Willamette Week in early 2022. I’m also the host of the Think Neuro Podcast from Pacific Neuroscience Institute, a group of wildly talented doctors in Santa Monica, California.