text: David Emery is a writer and an avid chronicler of urban folklore, with a special interest in the lore and folklife of the Internet.\n\nExperience:\n\nProfessional credits include stints as a freelance journalist, staff writer for a TV sitcom and contributing editor of a satirical newspaper. First won recognition as an arch commentator on the outer limits of Net culture in 1997 with Iron Skillet, "a compendium of offbeat views run through the blender of the author's savage sense of humor (with) on-target skewerings of strange ideas" (Houston Chronicle).\n\nEducation:\n\nMr. Emery received a B.A. in philosophy from Portland State University, followed by graduate studies in philosophy and classics at the University of Texas at Austin.