Flavored Water

I’m a loser baby, so why don’t ya kill me…”

-Beck

I don’t have a trail name (I signed the AT register “Bare Thrylls” this in December) so I’ll answer to that or how about “Jack Gorpman?” Yeah, that’ll do, for now. 

I have a B.A. in English, which I understand to be the perfect credential for an outdoors blogger – I’ve like…you know…read Kerouac. Unfortunately, taking an undergraduate paper in literature has done little for my spelling and reading twentieth century authors like Pynchon and DeLillo will do even less for your grammatical street cred with the types of people who read books like “Eats, shoots & Leaves.”   This blog is likely to have more than one misused, mishandled or otherwise abused grammatical construction in it.  I also blow off capitalization quite frequently.  dealwithit. 

At the time I started writing this blog, I was working in the printing industry.  You know… one of those shops that actually print all that bird-cage liner we get in the mail?  Yup.  That was me.  Anyhoo….the shop life was not for me and I got fired for having a bad attitude.  (refer to the quote at the top of page).   

I really love hiking, camping and the outdoors, so the idea here is to get on board with the whole blog thing, get out there and open my big mouth.  I suppose I could find another job or just stay home watching pornos all day but where’s the fun in all that?