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What's the deal with your nickname? How did you get it? If your nickname is self-explanatory, then tell everyone when you first started using the internet, and what was the first thing that made you say "wow, this isn't just a place for freaks after all?" Was it a website? Was it an email from a long-lost friend? Go on, spill it.

Scram (currently on hiatus) is a journal of unpopular culture that I've published since 1992. I wanted my metafilter nick to be my pet title "editrix," but it was taken. Scram will do fine.

I co-edited the anthologies Lost in the Grooves: Scram's Capricious Guide to the Music You Missed and Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth, and wrote the 33 1/3 series volume on Neutral Milk Hotel's In The Aeroplane Over The Sea.

With some friends and a Drupal site, I Saved the 76 Ball. I've blogged on unpopular culture at Lost in the Grooves, on historic Los Angeles crime at 1947project, On Bunker Hill and In SRO Land. With my husband Richard Schave, I lead offbeat LA bus tours for Esotouric; my beats are true crime and rock and roll, his literature and architecture. We also put The Downtown Los Angeles Art Walk into a non-profit. My Publicity Lite agency is Explosive PR.

Please visit my grandparents' video blog dedicated to their adventures in East L.A., and send grandma a question for her advice column.