Benjamin Rosenbaum has been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, Sturgeon, and BSFA Awards, & won Best Animated Short at SXSW. He was 17 when Sean Roberts pounded on the door saying "You gotta meet Michaela, man—her favorite book is Dahlgren, too!" (In 1987, goth had not yet arrived in the Northern Virginia sububrs; Michaela was, pace Sapir-Whorf, merely a fantastical kind of punk.) Last week, discussing office politics, Jamey laid claim to being "multiplex"; so yes, that whole, enduring, high school gang (Terri, Mouse...) evolved its theory of self from Empire Star.