Thursday will mark the first birthday of Faster Than The World. We'll be celebrating all week, so keep checking here because we have some fun contests to go along with the celebration.

Each of the authors of FTTW has taken the time to write a "how they got here" story of how they came to be part of this site. Maybe some of these stories are not true at all. Maybe. Maybe some of our authors spent too much time at the FTTW moonshine still. We are not responsible for the accuracy of their tales. But we are responsible for them being here, and no matter what, we're proud of that.

We'll post a few of these a day.

Seetwist, author of Aurgasmic

How I came to FTTW:

A few years ago I was frequenting Fark.com and posting a lot in the music forums. A thread popped up about Michael Patton selling his old autographed Apple computer on eBay, and much Patton fellating did ensue. People tossing around obscure album references and basically trying to one-up each other with their Patton knowledge. Of course, I had to join in...

I had just seen the guy perform live with Rahzel in Boulder, Colorado a few nights earlier and happened to have a recording of the show. I mentioned that I'd hook up a few of the more hard-core fans in the thread with a CD if they wanted it, and a number of people responded. There were quite a few posts to the effect of "Where the hell is Woodpecker From Mars, and why isn't she participating in this Patton thread??" I figured she was a big fan, so I emailed her and told her that I'd send a disc her way if she was interested. The next day I logged on and she had sponsored me for TotalFark.

Jump forward to March of this year. I had no job and was living off of my savings, and I had a lot of free time. I was filling it photography and writing music reviews that nobody ever read. On a whim, I asked her if she needed someone to contribute a few columns to FTTW about music and graffiti. She said "Hell yeah!", and I started the next week.

Nothing special about my story, just another hookup from a hawt chick who apparently digs me a lot... =)

Ernie, author of End Zone:

A few years ago, I think it was 2004, I was reading a site called The Soxaholix, which is like a Red Sox blog in cartoon form. Anyway, they did a post that was all about Michele's new, at the time anyway, Yankee blog called Empire of the Yankees or Evil Empire Strikes back or something like that, I don't remember, but I remember it had of course, Bucky Fucking Dent as part of the main site design, a great big picture of him right on the top of the page. So yeah Michele I found you from a Red Sox site how about that! Ha ha!

So I went over there and visited and there was lots of Yankees fans arguing with Red Sox fans. Since I was not a Yankee fan, and it was a Yankee site I kind of browsed around but I did not really give it a lot of thought. I did think Michelle's posts were funny though, even if they were all about the Yankees, so I started going back there just to see what would show up next. It was like, A GUILTY PLEASURE.

Then I started clicking around on the site links and found A Small Victory, which I became a regular reader of, because Michele would write about how much she liked the Misfits and Zombies and cool stuff like that. And it actually made me go and dig around in my basement
for my old cassettes and find my old Misfits tapes which I had not listened to in years and that was cool. It was like a re-discovery. So thanks Michele for helping me re-discover The Misfits.

And Michele did that Kids for Katrina thing to help out the hurricane victims, which was just an awesome thing for her to do. Then ASV went away. But I kept it in my Bloglines list anyway. I had a feeling Michele would come back someday, and one day there was this update in my bloglines 'Tap tap tap, is this thing on?' Michele came back to ASV with her new co-writer Turtle and they wrote stories about cool things like muscle cars and punk rock bands and being on the road in a punk band and all kinds of other neat things, and there were some people that would leave interesting comments all the time like kali and cullen and finn and pril. Then Michele and Turtle decided to leave ASV in the past and create Faster Than The WORLD.

And that's my FTTW story. Wow this is long ass. And there you go.

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So that's another two of many interesting stories. Stay tuned for the rest and stick around for a lot of birthday excitement this week on Faster Than the World.

And thanks for hanging out with us.

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