#1 – Tabula Rasa

Tabula Rasa? Actually it's what's on the table that desribes who I am!

You may call me Michael Midnight, although I do have many other names, I live in the greater Los Angeles area where by day I work at a local library.  Alongside whispering with the books, I am a writer who wants to write regularly, be published, and get paid to do what I love most.  It’s a dream, I know, but it’s one I’m chasing.  I haven’t been writing much, and I lay blame mostly on the Internet where I spend almost all of my time on.

I’m a part of the awesome YouTube community where I upload silly, little movies from time to time and I am heavily addicted to Twitter.  I started using Twitter a year or so after it launched and it was about a year before it hit the mainstream populace.  I remember for the longest time that I thought I was just shouting to the mountains, foolishly awaiting a response.  Surprisingly I got some responses and before I knew it, I was actively engaging in the Twitter community.  With YouTube and Twitter, I was made aware of Dailybooth.com that initially strove to be a social “once-a-day” photo site that snowballed into a creature onto itself.  Some have called it the photo equivalent of Twitter, but it’s such a dynamic community, that it, too, has brought me many new friends that I wouldn’t have made if it weren’t for the site itself.  In this regard, YouTube, Twitter, and Dailybooth are the Holy Trinity of the Internet for me.

I’ve been around the Internet blocks for a while now but there was a time when I fell off the radar completely, but since returning I have found it a much more fulfilling place than I had initially remembered.  I grew up during the days where it was frowned upon to meet with people you met over the Internet.  Now:  not so much.  Most often times these “in real life” meet ups with people you’ve interacted with online foster great interactions.

As a writer, I’m a huge fan and critic of TV and film, and I’m also a devoted comic book fan, and a lover of the never-will-it-fade book reading art form.  I’m a huge fan of the Slashfilm Filmcast podcast where the trio of hosts, Dave Chen, Devindra Hardawar, and Adam Quigley, talk about TV and film news and review the previous weekend’s new releases with a weekly guest from somewhere in the film industry.  I’m a follower of Leo Laporte and his TWiT Network and I’m also a Nerdfighter.  I’m an Agent of Awesome, a Knight of the Rotund.  I’m a “jack of all trades” and a “master of none”.  I look to the heavens and wonder like a child, I’m not sure where I’m headed but the journey’s the fun until the end.  I’m a prime dreamer at heart and all things are made better with a sweet lemon tart.

This all of me and this is none of me.  This is a part of me.  Although I cried bloody “tabula rasa” no one can really wipe the slate clean.  The past is only truly prologue when one strives forward into the unknown holding steadfast to the memories of the past, and looking forward towards the horizon.