Martin Boyle:
CLASS OF 1987
West High SchoolClass of 1987
Wichita, KS
Martin's Story
Yo! I'll never upgrade to gold, so I can't ever see who has signed my guestbook, so hey you, thanks for visiting! Leave a msg on the bulletin board! Or try martinwilliamboyle at gmail. Please write! Let's see: After high school I did the Army thing for two years as a print journalist in the reserves here in Wichita and then went active after becoming a military broadcast journalist. I then spent four years on active duty in Colorado Springs, Co., and got to see such wonderful places like Panama, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iraq. There's plenty more places to mention, but I'm sure you get the idea... Then I tooled around in college at W.S.U. and then moved to Northern California for two years. That's where I acted in a few plays and directed some Shakespeare In The Park and learned to paint from my roommate -- a master in the field of art. Then I came back and tooled around some more at W.S.U. and did some lovely jobs like being a paper boy and being a clerk. Those, of course, are the incredibly-great jobs waiting for us military veterans, you know... Then in 1996, to Venice Beach, Ca., where I could be a sidewalk artist. I retreated back to Wichita and was a short-order cook, then in 1997, I skipped out to South Beach, Fl., for a summer then back to Wichita for a while, then I tried a fresh start in Phoenix, Az., in 1998 where I did some landscaping for a real jerk which prompted me to again return to Wichita to continue my career as a professional student. Then in 1999, I went back to Venice Beach, and I lived in a commune and actually was a sidewalk artist for a while, then after a few months of starving, I came back to Wichita to drive cab and cook at the downtown bars again. Fast forward past Y2K to where I eventually tooled around once more at W.S.U. in 2003. I worked at a local T-V station for six years until it got sold and I concurrently worked at a flower shop as a driver and warehouse manager or ...Expand for more
something for the last ten years. I lived on a friend's spare sailboat in Honolulu, Hi., in 2007-2008. I still paint watercolor and acrylic and compose rap songs to a ghetto hip-hop beat and I am currently writing a book called "The Last American Midnite Movie" which is almost complete since I only have a few hundred pages more to get off my chest. Give it a glance, tell me what you think...
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You can tell by this novella here that I'm quite verbose -- so I've put plenty into the novel. Now I'm living in Wichita and waiting tables at a Country Club. I'm the dining room manager, but the pay's the same. I'll always remember that the beginning to all of these events started at my alma mater and I am grateful for the great preparations for life that I received at West High School. Go Pioneers! The realities of West did not include rose-tinted glasses or blinders with the diploma. When I went to West I never fully appreciated the beauty of our school-wide social integration until I saw first-hand the isolationist cliques that exist outside of school in life. I've never been married or have had any kids, but I still do take care of my pet rock, Seymour, who I've had since I was six, but these folks at classmates.com didn't have a check-box in pets for that, but truly, I recommend a pet rock for anyone. A rock is the best pet ever: he's low maintenance, he doesn't mess up my furniture and he can play dead or "stay" like nobody's business and doesn't cost me an arm and a leg in food, either.
Thank you for your interest in my life and hope I can hear from you sometime so you can tell me about how perfect everything's turned out for you. In twenty years, we'll all look back at this as the "middle" years, so let your mind feel young even if your body doesn't. Peace out, and no matter how strange things get, always keep smiling -- it makes people think you're up to something.
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