so...

(i got this here blog...i have had it since like November of 2009 it tells me...i forgot i had the damned thing at all, but a friend had mentioned i should get a blog, and i thought to myself..."wait a minute, i think i do...hmmm". so i clicked a couple links, tried using a couple screen names and passwords, and BINGO!...ten minutes later i discovered that i did , indeed, have a blog...so here we are... now you are now up with what has gotten us here, you reading this blog, and me writing in it..onwards!)

so, life has been pretty cool so far this year. started off with a great night spent with some good friends and family on new years night (along with a wasted 2 mile walk home from the bar in the pouring rain! it was brilliant. i once heard that rain cleanses the soul...well, if that is true, then honey, mine is squeaky fucking clean after that night...and maybe it is...because, i tell you what...life seems to like me these days.

i recently was approached by the editor of Wyandotte.Patch.com, an AOL project that is spreading to alot of neighborhood communities and is reshaping the face of journalism as we see it. he had stumbled upon my FB page and took notice of the photos i have taken throughout the years and wondered if i would be interested in them doing a story on me and my work...

ok....let's say that again, just because i love to fucking hear it..

he, "....wondered if i would be interested in them doing a story on me and my work..."

uhhhhhhhhhhm....wha?!?! back up, let me read that again...

i had to re-read it several times...

obviously he had made a mistake. why would he want to do a story on me? kinda blew my mind for a bit.

but i went with it, because to do otherwise would make me a fucking idiot. so i messaged him and it turns out he not only had interest in doing a story on me and my work, but he was looking to employ me as well...this was the super jack pot bonus in my eyes...it was really too good to be true i thought...but as i kept corresponding back and forth with my new perspective employer, i realized it was not too good to be true...i have lived my whole life, waiting for something like this to happen. and im ready for it. and it feels really good.

to have an outlet for anything that an artist does is an amazing feeling. i feel like an actor, who has rehearsed the lines over and over and over and over again and finally has a chance to step on the stage, and in front of an audience nonetheless...pretty fucking cool.