John

About me:

I am hoping that that is the greatest headline in all of Myspace, but alas I suppose that it is not. Somewhere out there someone has combined their love of NASCAR sonnetry and, for example, the awesome killing power of bears (Grizzly Man, not Stephen Colbert, mind you) or their love for the Four Non Blondes' smash hit "What's Going On"? Anyway, I am a rare combination of dilettante and professional loser, and yea in these 30-odd years of my life I have learned a lot of things, including: people who listen to classical music are just doing it to pretend they're all cool and stuff, people who said "I'm Rick James, bitch!" are essentially the same people who said "yeah, baby" all the time around 5 years earlier, and don't you ever, ever f'ing cough. Again, that's not ALL the crap I've learned; consider it a sampler. For those who think they remember me, I worked in retail for several years, went back to school after a few years off, got a job at a local radio station that I thought was going to represent a career change but actually was just a 5-year sidelight, got my degree (still have trouble believing that my white trash ass actually went to the University of Washington), and eventually left the radio gig to do customer service. Actually, I'm trying to become a writer at this point, although I am told that in order to do that for a living people actually have to want to read your work. I consider that a pretty huge roadblock so right now I'm just going to plagiarize Chekhov and see if "Glimmer Train" will publish me. It's not like anybody remembers Anton Chekhov anyway.