JasonPettus.com
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Jason Pettus [Chicago USA] v11.0
Description
My name is Jason Pettus and I was born in 1969; I currently count the American city of Chicago as my home, although am doing an increasing amount of both domestic and international traveling every year. I have pursued a number of different professions over the years; in high school, for example, I studied computer programming professionally, then studied fine-art photography in college (the University of Missouri-Columbia), and then pursued a career as a creative writer during my first ten years in Chicago (1994-2004). These days I'm in the process of opening a new arts center here in the city, one that would be mostly dedicated to the championing of underground artists, and would rely on an unusually intimate relationship with our customers for its success. I'm also writing a book-length narrative once per year these days, concerning whatever international trip I happen to take that year; I only puruse this as a hobby, however, so my financial goals for the trips are merely to break even.
New readers should be aware that this is a confessional personal journal, and that I frequently discuss sensitive topics in an explicit way here - my bisexuality, my atheism and my political opinions among the more controversial ones. My sex life is often discussed at this journal, sometimes in pornographic detail; and you should be warned that my opinions frequently clash not only with political conservatives but also liberals as well. Although I firmly believe that it should be every adult human's right to view whatever creative material they wish, all of the above should be kept in mind before sending a child to this website or recommending it to them.
As mentioned, from 1994 to 2004 I pursued a career as a creative writer, including publishing my first novel in the summer of 1997; this site was first opened in December of that year, almost exclusively to promote that novel. The journal was first added in the fall of 1999, originally because of reading that it was a good way to increase traffic to a personal website; a year later it began getting reprinted at AvantGo.com, a third-party company which provided web content to mobile devices, back before mobile devices had wireless internet capabilities. Both because of this AvantGo version and because of my growing literary success, readership soon swelled; by the end of 2001, for example, when I was still doing my journal daily, there were over 20,000 unique individuals reading each update. (Sorry, but I no longer keep detailed records of how many people visit, mostly because I'm no longer pursuing a career as a creative writer so it doesn't really matter. For those who are curious, I estimate somewhere between 5,000 and 25,000 people that read any given entry here now, with that number swelling to 20,000 - 35,000 while I'm updating from other countries.)
Contact
- Big City Baby
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- New York New York
- United States 10101
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- 2125862964
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