Random facts about Andrew Tisbert: Born and raised in Vermont, check. Lived many years in New York, check. Front man and flutist for heavy metal band Attic of Love nearly two decades, check. Neck broken twice and counting. Currently wandering the Red Line in Los Angeles, obsessively talking to the homeless. Critic of the neoliberal agenda, check. Oh, and writer of award winning science fiction, fantasy and literary hybrids sometimes labelled slipstream, said silly label certainly never having been coined by him.