Virgo, Illinoisan, Cardinals Fan
The easiest way for me to write an “About Me” page would be to do that epic “100 Things About Me” meme that EVERY BLOGGER EVER has done, but that would involve way too much work. So we’ll do this the hard way.
About the Online (Boring) Me: I started my website PeterStork.com in July 1999, but didn’t update regularly until Blogger emerged and I started using it in August 2001. MT replaced it in November of that year, and in 2002 I moved to exit670.com because I could. Eventually I migrated to WordPress, moved back to MT, and finally back to WP. You care.
I like to post pictures, and both my Facebook and Flickr accounts testify to this (though the latter was for a long time untouched and has less of a cache of images than the Facebook account. Plus, why aren’t you my Facebook Friend already? Huh?)
About the Offline (Real) Me: Married to a lovely gal named Emily who hasn’t given me children yet. Both of us are more than fine with this at this point. She’s a plant biologist scouring Central Illinois for native areas and I’m an announcer/producer at WSMI radio in Litchfield, Illinois, a fabulous little cluster of AM and FM stations out in a cornfield in Montgomery County.
My interests include old roads (in particular Route 66 and to a lesser extent US 40, 50 and 51), photography (these two interests collide at DigitalRoute66.com), film and television, computers and the internet, radio and television production (in particular sports…I keep a folder of sports chyron screen caps on my laptop…seriously) and baseball. I am a diehard fan of the second most successful team in baseball history (and the most successful in National League history), the ten-time World Champion Saint Louis Cardinals. But unlike most Cards fans, I don’t hate the Cubs.
I graduated from Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville in 2004 with a degree in history (minor in political science) wit secondary education certification from the state of Illinois. I also spent a couple years at Southwestern Illinois College in Belleville (or SWIC, which actually stands for Still Writing In Crayon) where I got my fabulously useful Associates Degree. High school was undertaken at Gibault Catholic in Waterloo, Illinois where I got along fabulously with most of my teachers, or at least the ones that didn’t teach Language Arts.
I used to work at both Circuit City and Best Buy, and neither provided as many fun stories as you’d think. Before that I spent almost a decade at a WHCO-AM, a small town radio station where I:
• Anchored news and recorded news wraps
• Anchored sports reports and recorded sports stories
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• Hosted a baseball talk show
• Produced and hosted high school football and basketball coverage
• Deejayed occasionally
• Produced commercials and promos
• Did baseball play-by-play
• Handled network traffic and muc of the FCC program/commercial logs
• Begged CBS in New York to refeed that World News Roundup, Late Edition promo I missed
• Webmastered
And most importantly…I took out the trash.