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Who Are You?
If that’s the question you’re after, you came to the right place. I find it odd that a lot of people don’t create web sites using their name as the URL. For instance, if you are a big fan of Dick Van Patten one would think that the best resource for information on one of the greatest actor’s of all time could be found at dickvanpatten.com, but alas, no website exists. That is why I created this site. For everything that is to be known about Dick Van Patten can be found in these pages.
My Life Story
My life began sometime between the first re-release of “Raider’s of the Lost Ark” (July 16, 1982) and the second re-release of “Raider’s of the Lost Ark” (March 25, 1983). Nobody really knows for certain.
I grew up with a passion for the arts. I have been told that as a child prodigy I performed songs from Disney’s “Pinocchio” from our garage. The audience found the performance to be groundbreaking and yawn inspiring.
As a troubled teenager I found solace in drawing. My whimsical humorist style often suggested that I was delusional. Which was only partly true. All of these drawings were done in my school notebooks on a medium called paper. Paper was big in the 1960’s when amateur chemists would dip it into liquid solutions, cut it into little squares and sell them as “acid.” This “acid” was reported to have dangerous mind altering effects that would drive people to the brink of insanity. Today to quell the general public’s fear of these substances, most drawing paper is marked “acid free.”
During my formative years I was consumed by the notion of using cameras and video tape to produce what is most commonly called drivel. Growing up in a society rich with Mennonite virtues, one piece of drivel was mistaken for pornography and literally created hours of controversy.
After a dashing escape from youthful abandon, I was spat out of the American education system with high hopes, but little knowledge of how the free-market employment system actually worked. I spent several years researching this ideology disguised as a fresh young employee for a handful of businesses.
Five years of clinical studies proved that I was not happy working a traditional desk job making a decent wage and plunged into the arena of media creation where I work twice as hard for half the price and am too busy to notice. I currently spend my days looking for the next great story while I'm surrounded by cameras, microphones and computers.
