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Hello! This is me with my Ellis Memling vielle taken at Rutgers (near our Victorian garden). I graduated summa cum laude from Rutgers back in '93 with a BA in English Literature, did a brief stint in graduate school at the University of Toronto before deciding that I didn't want to be a professor. Instead I ended up in academic administration. Presently I work at Rutgers Unversity, on the Camden Campus, specifically in the Summer Session Office, where I do graphic design for all the catalogs and advertisements, web creation and maintenance, and various administrative duties. Periodically I teach with the Fine Arts Dept. Additionally, I do freelance artwork, mostly illustration for fantasy and scifi. Work has been done for Inquest Magazine, Basement Games, Fantasy Flight Games and others, including a lot of private commissions. For examples, see the artwork pages above. I've won some random awards along the way, including the L.Ron Hubbard Illustrators of the Future, and some SciFi and Gaming convention art awards, though I rarely get to them anymore. I also perform music semi-professionally as an individual and in various groups - see the music pages above for more information. For fun I play in the SCA, specifically in the East Kingdom, in the Barony of Iron Bog where I'm known as Arden of Icombe. I hold a Laurel in that organization, which is their award for the arts (in my case, for musical performance). I perform music and dance, rapier combat, archery, and a variety of crafts ranging from leatherwork, woodwork and ivory to manuscript illumination. Beyond the SCA I partake of various role-playing games and CCGs, sometimes playtesting them, amass large collections of medieval and renaissance weapons, and way too many musical instruments (see the Whiteraven page for more info). I'm also a Joss Whedon fan, enjoy LoTRs, most fantasy and sci-fi stuff, and a variety of other activities as I've gotten to them, including ship modeling, bicycling, hiking, writing and such. But life all too often gets too busy to do it all! Should you want to reach me, I can most easily be found at pbutler@crab.rutgers.edu Presently I live in Collingswood, New Jersey.
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This is my wife of over seven years now, Stephanie Budin, in one of the photographs she actually likes. She's an ancient historian (ancient Greece and Near East), her first book is the Origin of Aphrodite which is available now. Her second book, The Ancient Greeks: New Perspectives is also out, though is more of a textbook. Her third book on Sacred Prostitution is forthcoming (possibly as early as 2007). She primarily researches ancient religion and culture, specializing in women's studies. She also practices kung fu, does various fiber arts, and once in a great while belly-dances semi-professionally. She has way too many books that cover more or less every inch of wall space that isn't occupied by medieval weapons (though to be fair, some of those weapons are hers). |
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Also living with me are a number of critters. At this point this includes a female zebra finch called Sif, two cages worth of gerbils, and a pair of presently baby bunnies named Apricot and Peanut Butter Cup. Our former dwarf (though definitely not small) house rabbit named Serendipity Thistle Poopsalot, whose personal webpage may be accessed by clicking on her picture to the left, passed away in June 2006. |
