History Tropers / DynamiteXI

I don't exactly remember when I first found TV Tropes. Maybe [[AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] had a link, or maybe it was serendipitous random Google browsing. I dunno.

I'm '''Dynamite XI'''. I'm a mystery writer, a sometimes-cartoonist, an erstwhile would-be collegiate humor journalist, a college graduate, a software support tech, and all around good twentysomething guy.

And I bake a delicious pie.

I don't exactly remember when I first found TV Tropes. Maybe [[AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] had a link, or maybe it was serendipitous random Google browsing. I dunno.

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!!My own personal Troper Tales:
* {{Adorkable}}: I've come to accept this as a valid lifestyle choice. Loathed it for the longest time growing up, though.
* BrevityIsWit: Believe it.
* DrugsAreBad: The anti-drug education ''worked'' on me. To be honest, the whole "I do drugs out of spite for those {{Narm}}tastic commercials" viewpoint doesn't make much sense to me.
* GameOfNerds: Baseball is still my favorite sport.
** I play ball for the local [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vintage_base_ball vintage base ball]] team.
** Love the Dodgers, Mets, and Cubs. And I'm a lapsed Rangers fan.
** I could talk your ear off about how [[ExecutiveMeddling the Houston Astros moving to the American League West in 2013]] was a horrible idea.[[labelnote:The short version]]If you want five teams in all divisions, then move the Diamondbacks to AL West, and move the Astros to NL West. Keep the MLB's two sole Texas teams in two separate leagues.[[/labelnote]]
* IsntItIronic: For my elementary school graduation, my school's music teacher thought it would be appropriate for the sixth grade class to sing the then-current hit "Missin' You" by Puff Daddy (with the boys rapping and the girls singing the chorus). The rationale was, we'd ostensibly be missing our school--except the song was Diddy's tribute to Biggie Smalls, and it was right there in the lyrics. ''My eleven-year-old self rapped a tribute to the Notorious BIG.''
** The alternative was the ''other'' then-current hit, "[[Film/{{Titanic}} My Heart Will Go On]]," which wasn't much better. I suspect the only reason we didn't sing that one was because my music teacher was sick of hearing it.
* TheNineties: My decade! I have a couple of cousins who are just shy of double digits, and when I talk to them about when I was their age, they roll their eyes and {{lampshade}} the fact that it's yet ''another'' Nineties story.
* KidsAreCruel: First, let me stress that I had a happy childhood and several friends. That said, I was teased on and off during childhood, and in retrospect the majority of it was relatively harmless. However, I ''did'' meet a genuinely cruel kid one time--in the ''Boy Scouts'' of all places. One evening, after a troop meeting, the kid[[note]]who was a year or two older than me and apparently never paid attention during the Scout Oath, Law, and Slogan[[/note]] waited until no adults were around, got two other scouts to hold me in place so he could give me a swift punch to the stomach, and whispered frightening insults to me afterwards. And I was about eleven or twelve at time.[[note]]Don't get me wrong, I still have a lot of respect for Scouting, and to this day I still wonder how that psycho was even able to get in.[[/note]]
** Later on, the same kid ended up in my English class during my sophomore year of high school, and took delight in his attempts to inflict terror upon me at lunch each day. Although by that point I had gotten older and wiser and sick of all that crap, and I quickly learned how to avoid him.
* PercussiveMaintenance: My 8-track player sometimes gets a loud buzz in the right channel. A good THWACK or two cures this issue.
* SchizoTech: My PC looks like a mid-Nineties computer, complete with CRT screen and floppy drive, but I've tricked it out with a DVD-RW, a Wi-Fi card (just in case), a retrofitted {{Atari 2600}} joystick, and an 8-track tape deck.
* TheWorldIsJustAwesome: The things that matter most in life are fascination, cleverness, kindness, generosity, and hope. It's not hard to find it in this world. A sense of humor can't hurt, either.

* TheWorldIsJustAwesome: The things that matter most in life are fascination, kindness, generosity, and hope. It's not hard to find it in this world. A sense of humor can't hurt, either.

I'm '''Dynamite XI'''. I'm a cartoonist, an erstwhile would-be collegiate humor journalist, a college graduate, a software support tech, and all around good twentysomething guy.

** Love the Texas Rangers. Also love the Chicago Cubs.
** I could talk your ear off about how [[ExecutiveMeddling the Houston Astros moving to the American League West in 2013]] is a horrible idea.[[labelnote:The short version]]If you want five teams in all divisions, then move the Diamondbacks to AL West, and move the Astros to NL West. Keep the MLB's two sole Texas teams in two separate leagues.[[/labelnote]]

* KidsAreCruel: First, let me stress that I had a happy childhood and several friends. That said, I was teased on and off during childhood, and in retrospect the majority of it was relatively harmless. However, I ''did'' meet a genuinely cruel kid one time--in the ''Boy Scouts'' of all places. One evening, after a troop meeting, the kid[[hottip:*:who was a year or two older than me and apparently never paid attention during the Scout Oath, Law, and Slogan]] waited until no adults were around, got two other scouts to hold me in place so he could give me a swift punch to the stomach, and whispered frightening insults to me afterwards. And I was about eleven or twelve at time.[[hottip:*:Don't get me wrong, I still have a lot of respect for Scouting, and to this day I still wonder how that psycho was even able to get in.]]

I'm '''Dynamite XI'''. I'm a cartoonist, a former would-be collegiate humor journalist, a college graduate, and all around good twentysomething guy.

I'm '''Dynamite XI'''. I'm a cartoonist, a would-be collegiate humor journalist, and all around good twentysomething guy.

* TheWorldIsJustAwesome: The things that matter most in life are fascination, kindness, generosity, and hope. It's not hard to find it in this world.

** Later on, the same kid ended up in my English class during my sophomore year of high school, and took delight in his attempts to inflict terror upon me at lunch each day. Although by that point I had gotten older and wiser and sick of all that crap, and I quickly learned how to avoid him.

* TheNineties: My decade! I have a couple of cousins who are just shy of double digits, and when I talk to them about when I was their age, they roll their eyes and {{lampshade}} the fact that it's yet ''another'' Nineties story.

I don't exactly remember when I first found TV Tropes. Maybe [[AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] had a link, or maybe it was serendipitous random Google browsing. I dunno.