I like names. Nicknames, Handles, Monickers, what have you. I take a lot of interest in what people prefer to be called, what they hate to be called, and what to call them to make them laugh. Sometimes a name dictates who someone will become in their life (honestly, name your kid Jeeves... see what happens). Some know me as GlitchPhil. Others know me as Fnipper. Many know me as The Cash. Few know me as Phillip. Most just know me as Phil.

 

I was born somewhere in Maryland, I don’t recall where. That’s probably because I was a Goddamned baby and I was still figuring out there were such things in the world other than amniotic fluid. Either way, I grew up in a little super suburb called Cloverly, where all the schools I attended were within a three mile radius.

 

I didn’t do much. I kind of allowed my brain to be filled with as much Television, Video Games, Comic Books and the best entertainment a 56k modem had to offer. I spent a lot of time trying to figure out what was funny, and how to be funny, because it’s a lot easier than exercise (it’s been working for me so far).

 

I blogged before it was cool, although I guess we all did. I discovered webcomics around the summer of 2003 and immediately realized my quick-ticket to fame and fortune. Still, uh. Still waiting on that one. Regardless, it spawned The Hoojie Crew, an old and no longer accessible (until I collect it properly again) “Learning Webcomic.” By that, I mean it was the project where I honed my skills down a little bit, and for that I am grateful to it. I just kind of never want to see it again.

 

Fall of 2003 saw my admittance to Temple (the fools) and I began studying Film & Media Arts. I had already been doing the AV Club/Morning Announcements at my High School for a while, so this was the logical next step (I could have taken a Broadcast Major, but I wanted to tell stories). The four years I spent at Temple, the longest crap I had ever taken in my life, yielded my Senior Project and about a year of taking it easy from academia and Taking Anything At All Seriously Whatsoever.

 

Sometime after graduating, I had realized that while I’ve spent a lot of time studying and honing craft, I hadn’t spent basically any time at all expanding my horizons and challenging my comfort zone as a human being. So I’m on an adventuring kick as of late, just trying to acquire more varied and random experiences that I can later tell to others, marking my accomplishments as a brilliant storyteller and all around cool guy. Here’s hoping.