About Me
(The coolest dude in the room)
This is the portal to both my digital life and my IRL…life. Take your shoes off, your pants, whatever makes you comfortable and dig in.
And no, I won’t close my robe. Sorry.
My name is Mike Rastiello and I’m from the Internet. Pleased to meet you.
I occasionally blog my angry rantings on topics such as email marketing, social media strategies and other things that make me grumpy-pants. But there are other times where I blog about things that make me happy like photography, movies, comic books, design, and how much I really hate your social media strategy.
I’m working on my anger issues.
Really.
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Anyway, more about me.
I spent the first 25 years of my life in the Garden State, New Jersey, where I grew up, learned how to navigate traffic circles, jug-handles and went to tons of New Jersey Devils games. I also practically lived at Yankee Stadium between 1999 and 2001. There was also a lot of diner food and awesome pizza in there as well. I’ve never met anyone that is in the mob, and yes, I love Bruce Springsteen.
I went to college at Quinnipiac Univeristy in Hamden, Connecticut where I earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications, specializing in media production. I miss the cold New England winters, but don’t miss the New Englanders.
Then, in 2006 I moved to Texas to be with the awesome love of my life, Ali. We lived in Houston (Humble, Montrose, The Heights) for 5 years before moving west to San Antonio in December of 2011. Ali and I got married in October of 2011. Ask her about it. She’ll tell you everything.
I am an Apple user, currently using a pimp 27″ iMac and I have an iPhone as well. I love iPhone games and I am always looking for a new game to play into the wee hours of the night. Current favorites are Jetpack Joyride, Temple Run, and all of the Angry Birds games.
I love Scrubs, Arrested Development, Futurama and I watch the DVDs over and over again like a school girl with a crush. Fringe is currently the best show on television.
All the photography that you see on the site was taken by me in my travels around Houston, New Jersey, New York, San Antonio and beyond. Yes. Me. Would you like to see more of my photography? Of course you would, just head over to my Flickr photostream.
I enjoy long walks off of short piers, getting caught in the rain, and dancing in supermarket aisles (H.E.B. has the best music). I love baseball and hockey and live and die with the playoffs. I am also a huge comic book geek. (Yeah, I run a Superman fan blog, so what?)
Currently, I am trying to learn the harmonica. I am not good.
Do you just need to know more about me or ask me a question?
Or, maybe you’re one of “those” people who like to read legal sounding things written by people who laugh at the word “duty”?
I lied about the cookie.
