About Me

All right, let's get the introductions and all that crap out of the way, for those of you who require back-story of your bloggers...

My name is Arthur Tiersky.

I'm 39 years old.

I grew up in the Chicago area, attended Oberlin College and currently live in Glendale, California with my two cats, Kramer and Judd.

I write screenplays, play no-limit hold 'em, see a lot of movies, and am currently attending dealer school.

My politics are what the conservatives call "moonbat" and everyone else calls "normal."

I am an atheist.

My claims to fame: I've had a short film I wrote produced and a feature partially produced (Why it's only partially produced is a post for another day.). I've been on three game shows, won one of them, came maddeningly close to winning another, and was basically a big fat load of goo on the third.

I do not suffer fools gladly, nor am I entirely sure what that means.

I started this blog because I now finally have some time on my hands now that I am all caught up with the "Choose Your Own Adventure" books.

I intend to use this space to primarily discuss politics, movies, poker, atheism, and anything else that tickles my fancy.

Don't expect anything too fancy. I've never even used Photoshop and probably would not recognize it if I found a big chunk of it in my food. Primarily, I'm going to be typing stuff and linking to stuff that other people have typed. Possibly the occasional pasted photo or embedded video, if I'm feeling really ambitious.

The title of this blog is a reference to "Lost in America", an Albert Brooks film I absolutely adore, and if you haven't seen it yet, your life took a horribly wrong turn somewhere. That said, the title has no actual thematic resonance with regard to this blog, it was simply that it was the first title I could think of that wasn't already taken.

(Seriously, who took "Pointy Birds"? And why? What the hell are YOU gonna do with it?)

Lastly:

I've had my posts deleted from two other blogs now, for no other reason than that they were in disagreement with the bloggers in question. I don't quite understand that line of thinking; one of my main concerns with this thing is how I'm going to attract people to it who disagree with me, since comments sections in which everyone is in accord are dull as dust, but okay, some people just blog to hear a chorus of "Amens" from their friends and parents, and whatcha gonna do, but the point is I'm making a personal vow to you, here and now, that I will not delete your comments no matter how completely fucking wrong you are, and I will especially not delete them if, conversely, they reveal me to be completely fucking wrong. I might delete them, however, if they genuinely serve no purpose other than being inflammatory. You want to write grafitti, grab a fucking spray paint can, find the nearest underpass, and knock yourself out. Hard. Other than that, rules are, there are no rules.

That said...

Welcome to my world.

Let's get started.