ABOUT ME
I’m in my late 20s, my name is Justin (shhh… don’t tell anyone) and I work in the wonderful world of retail, running a photo lab at your friendly neighborhood drugstore. I was born in 1981 in Virginia, where I lived until 1998, then I spent 8 years in Florida (UGH!) and now I’m living in Lansing, Michigan, where I get to enjoy four seasons again.
I’m a fan professional wrestling sports entertainment, comic books, rock & roll, action & horror movies, cartoons, writing poetry/lyrics, playing video games, old time radio shows and the 1980s in general. Call me for a good time at 555-555-5555.
In the past, I’ve done a little writing at Wizard Universe, the online home of Wizard: The Guide to Pop Culture magazine, recapping DC Comics’ Superman titles. Then I later went to become a founding member of the pop culture/comic book website Panels On Pages.
Now? I’m just a man out on his own in this cold, cold worldwide web and somehow, I intend to dupe some site somewhere into paying me enough money so that I may make a living writing.
In addition to running this blog, I also operate Metal Excess, a blog I started up to deal with my heavy metal & hard rock obsession, with the intent to “review” my own personal collection. It’s doing quite well and is all done in fun, but it’s allowed me to slowly make some connections in the music industry and has scored me a few free albums here and there.
THE SITE
Retro/nostalgia sites are a dime a dozen and I’ll be honest and tell you that 90% of them have the time and resources to do it better than I can, but would you settle for a guy with a lot of heart?
Let’s get real here: I’m living on a modest budget in a modest one bedroom apartment with two cats, a dog, and a fiancée to feed. I can’t even dream of competing with the big boys of retro/pop culture sites like The Retroist, X-Entertainment (my inspiration for starting this blog) or i-Mockery.
I don’t have the money to track down all strange wonderful old toys that I would like to or out dated food just for the sake of writing about them, I don’t have the money to buy tapes and tapes of old commercials and shows to post and review, and I don’t have the money or tech knowledge to produce vid captures of goofy 80s shows & commercials either.
All I can offer are my memories, a lot of passion, YouTube links, a few scans and images found and swiped courtesy of Google Image Search. Just why do you think I’m here posting on a FREE WordPress blog?
But it won’t be all retro. Occasionally I’ll deal with pop culture in general because making up lists and typing about some weird new candy or snack is cool.
Now maybe you’re asking yourself why I would choose to call this blog “The Metal Misfit”. Or maybe not, but I’ll tell you anyway. It comes from a time in my online life where I was looking for a new identity across IM services, message boards and what have you. I was inspired by my love of heavy metal and The Misfits (who I was really into at the time, plus I just think “misfit” is a cool word) and voila! The Metal Misfit was my handle and The Metal Misfit ended up becoming my blog name because I didn’t really know what else to call it! Has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it? Hey, it makes as much sense as The Surfing Pizza!
If you wish to contact me for any reason, email me: metalmisfit @ comcast.net
