I had grand, marvelous designs for that which would realize itself as my first blog post. Great blueprints were drawn, long-distance phone calls were placed, expensive consultants were hired. But in the end, we here at astropolis blog Inc. opted instead for the lo-tech, low-key approach... that is to say, cheaply wallowing in ego-centrism and hyperbole.
About myself for the uninitiated. Hmmm... well. Where to begin, where to begin? At the beginning then...
On Valentine's Day, 1976, I was conceived. I, like you in my audience, do not wish to be burdened by the icky details of my physical creation, so we shall fast-forward approximately nine months to November 16th, a day that found me gulping in my first fresh oxygen and witnessing my first light of day on the 13th floor of St. Joseph's Hospital in Tacoma, Washington. That same afternoon, Mr. Universe and struggling actor Arnold Schwarzeneggar was visiting the sick and the infirm quarantined and shacked up within the walls of that very same hospital. What glorious (if not vicarious) beginnings!
Now, 27 years and a day later, I find myself self-professing to be a "minarchist" bordering on "anarcho-capitalist", or "classically liberal", or just plain "libertarian". By trade, I am what millions worldwide describe as a "struggling, unemployed screenwriter seeking to direct". I live in scenic Tacoma, Washington again after failed stabs at living in other municipalities and daily I find myself fuming at the Soviet Socialist Republic my state of birth has made itself. This blog shall find me obsessing on those things that interest me most, namely:
MYSELF. FILMS. MUSIC. ECONOMICS. AND A BUNCH OF OTHER SHIT.
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