Honest  Entertaining  Funny  

Who am I?

Sorry, I won't tell.

This site is all about being honest and entertaining and funny.  One of the rules of writing, maybe even the Prime Directive of writing, and I'm sure many people would take issue with that saying that no this thing is more important or that thing is most important, but trust me, if you cannot learn to write as if you mother isn't looking over your shoulder you're dead meat.  If you're dead meat none of the other important factors that go into good writing matter much, do they?

So, if nobody knows who I am, I can write without worrying that my Mother, or my wife, or any of my kids, or my Minister or any of the people that go to my church are looking over my shoulder and looking down their noses.

"Oh, look at that.  Look what he said about that cake that Bessy Cheesenhoiser baked.  Can you believe it?  Hmmm.  Hmmm.  Hmmm.  Well just see about that!"

Being Entertaining

It's not that I plan to slam people, cause I don't.  It's just that people can get bent out of shape so easily and take things in print so strangely, in ways you never meant.  Anyone that has written in print media for public consumption knows what I am talking about.

And I want to bring you all the best and quirkiest and strangest of my life.  I believe that these things will be the funniest and the most entertaining.  And writing anonymously frees me to do so and give you the best product.

What's in a name?

I am not my name anyway.  Those of you, if there ever are any of you, that read my blog will certainly, without a doubt, come to know me better than even my parents do.  Presenting ones thoughts and life publicly has a way to elucidate and illuminate in a way the direct description never does.

I may not always write this blog anonymously either.  There may be a time in the future when I no longer feel I need to do so.  With a large audience comes a certain amount of insulation from the hurt feelings of other people.  It is an odd thing, but when you are writing for a big audience most people are so thrilled with the relative amount of fame and notoriety that they receive from seeing their name in print, that they almost don't care what you say about them.

Almost.
almost...

Nobody likes being attacked simply for the sake of being attacked.  I don't plan to do that.  I don't like mean spirited writing.  I think it is cheap.  I don't think it would be as entertaining as a piece that I have thought out and really put my heart into either.  But their are times when you need to speak out against wrongs that you witness.  I never see this as attacking somebody as much as I see it protecting other people and standing up for the truth.  It is funny, though, that the "wrong doers" never seem to see it that way though.

It's Fun

It is part of the entertainment value of this blog for you not to know my identity and to attempt to guess it.  I welcome that.  It will be fun for all of us.  Just don't expect me to acknowledge a correct guess either publicly or privately.

This is a photo of the marquee that was in front of the Tawas Movie theater.  The theater is gone as are most drive-ins.  All killed by daylight savings time.  It has been replaced by a Taco Bell, a Gas station and a Presbyterian church.  I really loved driveins.  I really miss them.  I also really love the entire Tawas, MI area.  It is probably the greatest kept vacation destination on the planet so don't tell anybody about it!  I spent a lot of summers in Tawas and East Tawas.

About Me

Someday, one of my blogints will be a biography that is as revealing as it can be without giving away my identity.  When I write that blogint, it will be permanently posted to this page.

My faith 

I am what the world would call a Christian, I believe it is more correct to say that I am a follower of Jesus.  Don't panic! this doesn't mean I can't write honest, funny and entertaining blogints.  Also, I firmly believe that many of the problems people have with Christianity Go to fullsize imageare fomented by a complete and utter lack of understanding on the part of most "Christians" and nonchristians as to exactly what the heck it was that Jesus told us.  I also attribute it to a great deal of hypocrisy on the part of a great many "Christians".  Both things make me sad because they drive needles wedge between humanity and Jesus.

In the immortal words of a minister friend of mine, upon my asking him why another minister had said something to me about my own faith in Jesus that had made me feel so bad about myself, "Well sir, it's because Christians are screwy."  I tend to agree with that far too often.

Having said this, I must be honest enough to admit that I am sure I fall within the group of misunderstanders and hypocrites far more often than I would care to admit or would even realize for that matter.

My physical prowess  

I'm middle aged and overweight.  I used to be aGo to fullsize image young virile mountain biking, rock climbing, weight lifting stud whom my own parents used to refer to in a rather pejorative sense as "The Iron Man".  The only thing Iron on me now is the supports in my shoes that keep my very flat arches from buckling under the weight of my man-mountain belly! 

My education 

In college I studied commercial art and computer science.  I pursued a doctorate in theImage Preview latter until I woke up one morning, decided I was sick to death of school and taking finals and doing other people's research for them.  I quit school that day and started making "real" money a couple weeks later.