What Is Mavervorl Media?

Founded in 1997, Mavervorl Media is the d/b/a with which I write articles, works for stage and teleplays, manifestoes and filthy limericks. Under that umbrella is a producing arm with which I record and stage productions including The Orange Show and my solo productions in Boston and Los Angeles, on the web, on the air, and in outer space.

Finally, Mavervorl Media goes on the check if I've ever designed for you a web page, database, large or small wired or unwired computer network, or have consulted in a friendly and non-threatening computer way for your business. I have provided this service at Harvard University, Comedy Central, MTV and dozens of other businesses, large and small.

But "Mavervorl"?

In fifth grade, our catholic school class got a substitute teacher for two weeks who chose to teach us a unit on mythology. Very few of us had been exposed to the idea that there were other gods than our own, so when we heard about Zeus and Odin and Jupiter, Thor and Mars and Aphrodite, I remember being pretty jazzed up. I found out later that a lot of my classmates joined me in running home to our parents and telling them all about the new substitute and what he'd taught us. While I didn't make the connection, very soon later he was gone.

But not before he gave us his last assignment: Invent Your Own Mythology. Mavervorl was the name of a thousand-headed goat. I don't know what other attributes Mavervorl had, but he was a goat and had a lot of heads.

Many years later I heard the news that the parents had collectively run our favorite sub out of the school because he was teaching an alternate mythology. When I waded out into the web in January of 1997, Mavervorl seemed the perfect name for a domain.

My first attempts at web design weren't that bad, but I wasn't savvy enough to foresee spam or that even my closest friends would never get the name right. So Mavervorl.com will come back when it's time for extra bandwidth. (update - 2005: someone poached mavervorl.com, which is flattering and annoying at the same time.)