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Hi,
I'm 
HAVE
YOU SEEN ME LATELY?
Well
maybe you have! I've met thousands of people through the parties and events
my wife Deven and I have hosted
as founders of our plus-size social group, 
I've been a
professional DJ and party host since 1979 performing at thousands of
events for my company, 
coming to the Seattle
area in 1996, I did my DJ thing on radio stations including New Orleans'
I'm
not embarrassed to admit
that I liked the 70's. And Disco music. (Still do!) Sure it's a cliché now, but to those of us
who lived it - rather than watched the sitcom - it might have been the
last decade with a glint of innocence. Yes, that is
Sylvester Stallone, whom I met in 1976 courtesy of a radio contest.
Sure my Afro got a little tighter in the 80's, but my not my funky
tinted aviator glasses. I remember making stacks of that photo to reply
to personal ads. That was a whole other adventure and a met lots of
great women. To this day I'll get the odd email from someone I dated
then. You found me!
There were a certain number of benefits in being
on the radio.
Gotta love the free pizza and concert tickets. Melissa Etheridge did the "meet and
greet" with me (though she seemed more friendly
toward my female contest winners) during her 1995 concert tour. I've also gotten to
shake hands with Barry Manilow, Chuck Berry, Rush Limbaugh, Wolfman Jack,
Gene
Simmons, Dan Aykroyd
and a Beach Boy (I forget which one). I traded the radio headphones to
direct my years of advertising and marketing experience into being a
self-styled internet impresario and marketing guru. Maybe you've seen TV
commercials I produced, heard jingles I've written or seen websites I
designed. I've been lucky to have huge companies like America Online and
Microsoft write me a lot of checks for my talents. And I've learned to
love the smell of erasable markers, talk about "conversion rates" and
throw around acronyms like SEO and CTR. 
And
then there's Ben, who's 15 years old and is embracing teenager-dom
with sullen exuberance. He's never shy about
making a precocious remark and then rolling his eyes, "because the
girls like it".
