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Bronze Place
I got a Dell
(computer resurrection)
For Christmas in 2012 I asked for, and received, an outside hard drive, to back up my precious docs. I guess I figured I'd get around to using it eventually, but literally like 10 days later my computer wouldn't wake in the morning when I went to roust it. Buddy, I was crappin' these drawers. If it was catatropic and my files were gone, my life was essentially over; I'd be an empty husk of a dude, rolling hollowly down the road. All of my funny blog ideas...all of my erotic Harry Potter fan fiction...my unfinished Harry Potter: Reloaded screenplay...and I don't know what else. All of it, gone. I didn't want to take it to someone to fix, so I guess I figured I'd get around to removing the hard drive eventually to see if the files could be salvaged.
About exactly one year later, I got around to it: I said what the hay, rolled up my sleeves, googled fixes for the most common computer bug-ups, and ordered up a brand new power supply. Slapped it in there. Said a Hail Gary. And pushed the power button. Yep. Everything was still there.
I guess I'll get around to backing it up eventually.
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Silver Place
Strangers with Candy
(TV series)
In middle- and high school I watched a lot of Comedy Central, but I avoided Strangers with Candy like you avoid that 50-year-old ex-con classmate with an overbite in the halls between classes. I thought Jerri Blank was the most unpleasant creation I ever saw.
Well somebody should've slapped the remote control out of that Wanda At Large-loving nerd's hand and put on some real shit, and maybe he would've made something of myself.
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Gold Place
MotoRise
MotoRise
(mission statement)
Since graduating high school I've been wrestling with the problem of what I want to do with my life. Now, at 25, I know. The answer had been staring me in the face the whole time: MotoRise. How could I not see?
My friends, it feels like a weight has been lifted off my bod. I feel like a real boy. It sure seemed like an agonizingly long period of uncertainty when I was in the middle of it, but realistically I suppose a lot of people might consider 25 an enviably early age to find The One Reason They Were Put On This Earth (MotoRise). But I need your help, reader. If I don't take some pretty serious initial steps (you can use your own discretion) in the next 2-3 years to start down this recently uncovered path toward totality, please throw a pot of hot warm coffee in my face and scream, "MotoRise!"
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Honorable Mentionings
Future of the Left
(music band)
Cheeky lads.