Self-Promotional Quickie:
Hey I'm a funny, secular, divorced guy with a handful of solemnizations of weddings under my belt, no fear of public speaking, and cheap rates. If you need a solemnizer to say the words I'm your man!
- Need a ceremony in a jiffy? Just give me an hour and I can probably figure out how to get there!
- Want some custom ceremony with a bunch of your own stuff woven in, original research done, and stuff like that? Let's get coffee and go over some stuff, or we can just collaborate online!
- I know experienced photographers! Real ones with crazy electronics and websites and stuff, I can refer some if you don't have one yet.
Minimal and easy or well-thought and personal, we'll get you married.
my name is matthew f gilboy. welcome to to my /about-me/ page.
I live in the land of Columbus, Ohio. I'm originally from a rust belt city called Youngstown, and I'm very proud of that. You'll notice a lot of my recipes borrow names from the Yo.
I am recently divorced; somehow probably in the midst of the best year of my adult life.
I am epileptic and that is a pretty big deal for me. Not like it causes problems or anything, just that it has been a major factor in shaping who I am. 
I take 2,500 mg of depakote ER (valproic acid) daily, split 2 & 3. It's a decent drug, has kept me clean, and probably affects my mood since its also a stabilizer.
My experience with college lasted from 1998 until December of 2005; the final sum was some 210 semester hours between my two majors, philosophy and religious studies. In addition I completed a minor in Painting and almost Art History (just couldn't cope with two more classes). I spent 7ish years in school for my degrees, and got a job as a clerical intern. How utile a degree.
So here are some sub-headings about me, some to be further expanded at some time.
Dreamsfood, & Dreamsfood.org: I encourage you to check out both links. With a massive amount of help, I am launching a Cooking Cooperative to help encourage experimental cooking. It has been my experience that it is passively discouraged and prohibitively expensive relative to risk. The co-op, Dreamsfood, is meant to be a community supported way of not only deferring the costs (the community awards monetary bounties to fund the cooks), but also as a way to create an experience for the members of the community who invest in the cooks. Restaurant'ing is a pretty proscenium: the customer enters, sits, the service takes place with actors bringing and taking things with an invisible crew behind the scenes. Cooking is a raw experience that is flattened by our access to cooks; which is in most cases if not limited, patronizing. Dreamsfood is meant to bring the Cook from behind the curtain, and to bring out in her or him the Experimental Maestro.
I like making chili.
Some chili recipes have to give it up to Homesick Texan's 7 hour chili recipe, but all of them are weird derangements of me in my most stress releasing habitat; the kitchen behind a pot. I want to push a chili cart one day and sell chili without borders.
That said, chili is one of my two big focuses in cooking. In the same way that some people really like and enjoy cooking and eating Italian or Indian or Mexican food, I really enjoy Vegan food. As an omnivore of sorts, I don't want to go on about why Veganism is a movement whose time has come, but as a cook, I do want to say that cooking Vegan is great for getting up close and personal with your food. It allows you a freedom that no other formalized cuisine does; absolute license.
In fact I am an omnivore (not true at all anymore*). I have previously tried to go vegan with pretty horrible effect. Suffice it to say, Depakote depletes the body of L-Carnitine; a non-essential (not produced by the body) amino acid that allows cells to evacuate waste (ammonia, specifically). (1) I take Depakote for epilepsy (2) L-Carnitine is typically absorbed while consuming meat, bones, dairy, and cartilage (3) Vegans eat none of these (4) When I went vegan, I was depleting my body of the LC, and not replacing it, and my cells were filling up with Ammonia. I ended up crazy sick from end to end and had to go back to the meatery.
I will likely try again soon. Don't want to make a big deal about it. Still I know I will need to do it smartly, confer with my doc to make sure my Depakote levels and Thyroid functioning capacity are good. Also, I won't be able to take LC straight for all my intake needs, so I will need to consientiously focus on vegan sources of it.
*As a modest update, I have been eating vegan since about October 26, 2011. Armed with a two month supply of liquid L-Carnitine this time around, as well as a big ol' bottle of B-Complex and Vitamin-E (actually, I initially bought it for the dog), I'm striking out and venturing away from the omnivorum.
Buddhism, Atheism, and Prison Break Survival: This category holds a lot of my meandering thoughts on not religion and spiritualisms per se, but reflections on cognitive and emotional experiences generally. It overlaps a good amount with the non-smoker (I do in fact still smoke, and non- isn't entirely about quitting things), but is meant to emphasize the practical bits. Whereas the non- has a lot of stuff about attachments, PBS is meant to be a guide to the general story of healing with a focus on some insight that I find useful.
Commerce of the Body, PRN and more:
Jobby-Job: For the past six years I have gone from clerical intern to professional clerical assistant to contracting geek. I love contracts in a way no human should admit.
Love my job, for real, but also looking at some continuing education. (If you go to OSU you get a free bus pass; the cost of a semester's credit would outweigh the cost of a year of bus passes.) If I go back, I'd be interested in either further development in my field of study, or finishing off a BFA in painting. Other options include an MBA, MPA, or JD; with those, however, I have difficulty wrapping my head around the benefits of further student debt.
Camera: I used a Motorola Droid 1 for most pics up until September 2011, got an HTC evo 3d and it tends to put out marginally better pics. At any rate, you'll have to cope with crappy phone cam shots.
I'd love to say i had some ambitions to get a new camera. For instance, one devoted to the purpose of shooting food or paintings, or whatever, but i dont have the kind of time to make the kind of money to erase the kind of debt that having the kind of time to make the kind of money to buy a camera entails.
Activities: Surely no one counts things you do on the internet as activities, unless they're me. So I'm a smoker pack a day, quit drinking back in April 2011. I am active on Stack Exchange (broke 10k rep on the network recently, woo?). I've popped up some lyrics on wikia. I drink coffee and cook. I grill and smoke on my Char-griller. I have a voracious appetite for music. I try to paint when I can.
for my support staff, here's an auto-bio. actually this is the resume he posted on craigslist (under missed connections).
i am mitt. the devourer. i was born mitt devour, and my friends don't call me. i get paid a sub-par wage from a sub-human being (mfg). i am the multi-media director here and i make bad bmps with Paint (for Windows!) and i make videos over at xtranormal.com .
you can follow my tweeterings at: http://www.twitter.com/mittthedevourer
Additional random html snippets that compartmentalize things i do:
I EAT! FEED ME WITH MONEY?
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