Laszlo Xalieri
Savor the Xalieri Flavor.
Laszlo Xalieri, despite the Hungarian/Italian name, is an unabashed southerner who has lived all but two years of his life in Georgia. That's the one in the USA, not the one in Eastern Europe. In the spirit of worldly brotherhood though he drinks as much arak as bourbon.
Irrelevant fact: Both the words whiskey and vodka derive from the local languages' words for water. In Arabic, arak means "sweat." Close enough.
He writes about science, technology, religion, politics, culture, and human nature as if he had some kind of direct knowledge of any of that crap. Contrariwise, he comes by his fiction honestly. Currently he makes money doing computer stuff.
Xalieri is a published novelist, short story writer, poet, essayist, pundit, and is the author of the five-year-running "Tales from the Third Lobe" column at TwoHeadedCat. He has plenty more stuff in the works.
Influences: Raoul Duke, Samuel Clemens, Ambrose Bierce, Chuck Palahniuk, Richard Feynman, Tom Robbins, Drax Plunkett, Jorge Luis Borges, and a lot of other dead, drunk (dead-drunk) Southern writers
Superpower: Xalieri is The Enabler. No, there's no cape with the costume.
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