I am Richard Platypus.
This is my lagoon of reluctantly gratuitous self-promotion.

Right now I'm using this website mainly to showcase my writing.
I am a poet; my first chapbook, Pedestrian Prophets, was printed in October '05.
I am a novelist, unpublished in that field last time I checked.

While I'm also an activist and currently working on a documentary film, these sections of the website are in disrepair. This is not likely to change any time soon, since I'm going to be spending the rest of the year in Tanzania.