Quick Update

Salutations blogosphere! Sir Marcus back here, Bringing Da Noise and Bringing Da Funk.

It's been awhile since we last spoke, and for that, I beg a thousand pardons of you. Since then, my life has been somewhat eventful -- my dad came out here to visit a few weeks ago, me and the Old Lady have reconciled somewhat, and my writing idol came to visit Mizzou.

In reference to that last item, David Sedaris came to Mizzou last Wednesday night and it was a terrific experience. He is even funnier in person than he is in print, which shouldn't come as a surprise, but I wasn't quite expecting it. I don't want my praise of him to be too effusive lest I sound like a groupie, but good Lord, I'd love to do what he does for a living: be a full-time writer that gets paid to tour the world giving lectures and reading excerpts from his books. When I say he's my writing idol, I mean something closer to inspiration -- it wasn't until I started reading his books about a year or so ago that I really decided that I wanted to be a creative nonfiction novelist, a point driven home all the more by my attendance of his lecture. It was funny, quirky, charming, endearing and self-deprecating -- everything that his fans would have expected and then some. When the lecture was over, I stood in line for three hours -- something I otherwise would never do -- to get my book signed and to his credit, even after three hours, he was as gracious, engaging and unassuming as he was on stage. While I imagine this part of his life is unbelievably tedious at times, it is a testament to his humility and good nature when we met that if I had to do it all again, I'd stand in that line for three hours again every single time. Absolutely life-changing event for me; not even joking.

The crux of the matter here is that when asking David what advice he would give to an aspiring writer, he said that I should just write everyday; he suggested starting a journal, which is what I've since done. Get ready for a bevy of blogs to come from hence forth, as that journal will be ripe with topics to share, such as the one following this update.