The Cool Teacher

You know, you go through life and you meet people that have a very profound effect on your life. And I have had the pleasure of meeting a lot of people in my crazy life. I've live in or been in just about every state on the eastern coast line of the United States, and like I said, I've met a lot of people from Johnny Rodz to Jay Lethal to a guy that trained me in pro wrestling named Mike Morgan (www.aceprowrestling.com) to John Nash to Dr. William Hanff. The one thing they all have in common to me is that they're all cool teachers. I never got to train with Rodz in NYC, but he was pretty cool to talk to. But everyone else taught me something about myself that I didn't know before. Jay Lethal taught me that I could actually wrestle. Mike Morgan actually taught me that I have a bright future in the business and is giving me the chance to do just that when I graduate with my Bachelor's. John Nash taught me the "business" side of television. There's more to say, but I can't quite put my finger on it right now. Dr. Hanff has taught me what it is to be...knowledgable and cool. Even though he admits that he's long winded, a conversation with Dr. Hanff is something I look forward to a good bit. I tell my wife that he's a walking encyclopedia that he knows so much stuff. Stuff that could quite possibly have stopped Ken Jennings from getting that $2 Million off of Jeopardy.

What's my point in all this? Nothing much. Just wanted to take a moment to say thanks to all those guys that had a hand in "raising" JoAnn Wilkins' eldest son since I moved out of South Carolina back in 2002.

Pro Wrestling

Many people know that I used to dabble a little bit in pro wrestling back in the day. Yeah, like 5 years ago. That's back in the day for me.

My brother in law is training to become a pro wrestler and is at the same spot where I did my training. The promotion is called ACE Pro Wrestling. When I was there it was the AWA-New Jersey. Their not affiliated with the old AWA though. Great group of guys, and the owner is a total class act. His name is Mike Morgan. I owe him for helping me achieve part of my dream. Now I get to help him when I graduate by helping him run things. This is huge for me! I'm excited. So excited that I just can't hide it. Yeah, it was cheesy, but it's better than that line about George W and Hurricane Katrina.

First Days of Class

The Spring Semester here at UDC have started up and I'm excited and disappointed at the same time. I have a video editing class that I'm excited about and I want to take, but it may get canceled because we only have 4 people in the class. We need 6. Such as life.

Then on top of that, they haven't had any of my books in the bookstore. I swear this institution is bassackwards now. Such as life as my wife would say.

First post...I ramble at times.

I guess I should introduce myself. My name is Adrian Wilkins. I'm a 34 year old student that's about to graduate with his BA in Mass Media/TV Production.

This is my first post and I'm really not sure what to write or do. My wife is playing The Sims 2: Castaway on the Wii. Yeah, I got one of those things. It's a lot of fun. What's funny to me how Best Buy put like hundreds upon hundreds of these things out on the floor. I could have sworn that back in May I couldn't find one. Shoot I would have had a better chance of finding GW Bush after Hurricane Katrina... Was it too early for that one???

Well, I guess I should tell you all this. I'm a comic book writer. YAY!!! As if there aren't millions of us out there saying that they write comics. I'm not trying to make a permanent living off writing comics. I plan on making a living on developing my comics into properties. I learned the art of thinking years down the road in the comic book industry from Brandon Easton, writer of the upcoming book, ShadowLaw!

I'm also the VP of an online comic book studio: Cadre Corner Studios. A bunch of great guys there!

I guess every now and then I'll post about what I'm going through with school and work (I'm a freelancer/intern at a TV Production Studio in Washington, DC named Atlantic Video and just happen to work on one of their biggest client's higher rated show. That client would be ESPN and the show, Pardon The Interruption.

Anyway, that's post number one. I hope to meet more writers and artists that I can work with and network with and make some new friends. Take care and the Force is with you all!