Award-winning radio and podcast host, fledgling novelist and fiction writer, occasional keyboard player/composer, subculture Yoda to a bunch of people that probably shouldn't consider me a role model, former mayor of Weaver Bay, music trivia title holder, emerging YouTube star, mannequin wrangler, and resident expert on the Indianapolis music scene.

30-Year veteran technologist, cloud operations specialist, business analyst, new media evangelist, ghost blogger, SEO/web analytics consultant, failed entrepreneur, recovering software engineer, and inventor of the "Jazzoize Life, Culinary, and Software Development Methodology."

Four-time nominee for best radio personality in Indianapolis. Twice nominated Indy's most-eligible bachelor over thirty-five. Winner of the 2016 NUVO Cultural Vision Awards: Music Trailblazer. Three-Time NaNoWriMo Winner. Gilt-Edged Geeks' "Best Person to Be Trapped in an Elevator With."

Hobbies include baseball, strategy gaming, the occasional RPG, voraciously reading everything in sight, finding and cataloging exotic and unusual radio stations and live streams from around the world, quantum physics, day trading, comic books, all things sci-fi, old-time radio, the technological singularity, cooking/baking, wuxia/chop-socky flicks, cyber/technoculture, imported teas, transhumanism, and dead programming languages.

Playing with a focus on the music, The Grinning Man incorporate rock, jazz, surf, and funk into a psychedelic blend of instrumentals.

Kolo Bell - Singer, Guitar, Mandolin, Percussion
Larry Grider - BU Singer, Bass
Dane Love - Singer, Percussion, Guitar

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