1. Who is docmarvy? Is he a doctor? Why should I care?
Docmarvy is me, a guy named Marv who lives in
You should care because something compelled you to come this far in the site. Read on, weary net surfer, and drink from the golden chalice of my literary genius.
(P.S. You can still hear Otis on the air. He's spinning the greatest hits of the 1600's, 1700's and 1800's in the morning on Omaha's Classical 90.7 KVNO.)
2. Why the hell do you (meaning me) think you need to have your own site?
Well, fictional characters have their own myspace pages, and lots of computer nerds have sites that are nothing more than altars to their World of Warcraft avatars, so why shouldn't I have a site filled with weird stuff from the net, promotions for my personal ventures, and my witty take on current events via a very sloppily edited blog? If dead people and cartoon characters can ramble on about nonsense, then I should have that same right. It's the democracy of the internet at work.
3. What's with all the Apple Computer stuff?
Although it's a surefire way to start up a flame war in any net space frequented by nerds, I'm unapologetically a staunch Mac user. I've seen clouds from both sides, and while I try to block it out, there's an undeniable time in my life when my main computer was a Canon laptop running Windows 95. Those were hard times, indeed. The darkest days before Steve returned to Apple to save it from its attempted dismantling at the hands of Gil Amelio, Michael Spindler and to a lesser extent John Sculley. Back when all Apple had to offer was Performas and Quadras, and they were overpriced and slow and pretty crappy overall. Dark dark days.
I made my return to Apple with a lime green Rev. B iMac and have never looked back. Love it or hate it, they are easier to use, powerful and attractive. Just like me. If you don't like it, go back to your Dell running Vista Ultimate Super-Platinum with Windows Media Entertainment Manager Deluxxxe and enjoy your damn self. I don't care what you use.
4. Why should I care about your (meaning me, again) political rants?
You probably shouldn't. They're going to happen anyway. The republic is in a sad state of disrepair. If I don't expel some steam once in a while then my brain will melt. If you don't like my political leaning, I suggest you skip the blog entries that are filed under: "politics". But that doesn't mean you should care about the other posts either.
5. If this is a personal page, how come you (me, yet again) don't get more personal?
There's many layers to an onion, baby. I try to keep it semi-professional on here because I find it diminishes my already precarious credibility to pair my philosophical or political insights with too-personal musings or pictures of me holding my cat. You never saw pictures of Kurt Vonnegut Jr. snuggling up to a plush Hello Kitty or Carl Sagan photographed at the receiving-end of a 2-story beer bong, now did you? You did see a picture of Frank Zappa on the toilet, but that just added to his mystique. I will not be posting any of my tasteful nudes here. But if you look hard enough, I'm sure you can find them. But think about it, do you really WANT to? Really? Trust me, you do not.
6. What's with the Pat & JT thing?
I worked professionally in radio for about a decade in Omaha (roughly a third of my life). I loved it, but the pay was terrible, the arguments tended to be petty and you had to deal with some outsized egos. The only thing I really loved about it was being on the air, Through a weird twist of fate I started representing my then-employer The Reader on Pat & JT's show on Q98.5 for 5 minutes once a week. It turned out that we had what is known the radio industry as "good chemistry." So my segment got longer, expanded to a couple days, then a few days...