About
Jamie Doom the Weblog
The purpose of this weblog is to change your life. Should this weblog fail to change your life, or succeed but only in changing your life for the worse, please address all email complaints to john at sinosplice.com. However should this weblog make you happy in any small way–and I think it will–please address praise, admiration, marriage proposals, interview requests, and back slaps to jmedoom at aol.com.
This weblog was inspired, designed and built by John Pasden using some German dude’s Word Press theme. Jamie Doom gave minimal help and effort towards the creation of this site. All images on this site unless otherwise noted are created or captured by Jamie Doom, including the rotating banner images at the top. Yes, Jamie Doom was at that cock fight, and yes he won a lot of money which he remembered to claim as part of his taxable income.
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Jamie Doom the Experiment
Jamie Doom a.k.a. James Stewart Doom, a.k.a. Doom, a.k.a. Me, a.k.a. JamDoom, is the product of Sheila Stewart Doom (type B personality) and Robert (Bob) Ray Doom (type A personality). Jamie Doom (type B personality) was born in Edinburgh, Scotland a long time ago. His parents moved him to Asheville, NC at an impossibly young age, yet he somehow still survived the plane trip. He is the third child in a four-child family. His older sister, Susan Doom Jerby, and old brother, Robb Doom, are both married happily to the products of more sane and careful upbringings. They have lots of children (an Olympic sized volleyball team plus one substitute). The youngest child, Jana Doom, is not married and is currently in Louisville, KY working as a turf accountant.
Jamie Doom graduated from Bob Jones University in Greenville, S.C. in 1997 with a degree in Public Relations Journalism. His grandmother and both of his parents were also graduates, but not in the same class. While there, Jamie made several attempts to: 1. Break the interracial dating barrier. 2. Determine whether any of the administration had a sense of humor. 3. Have books written in this century placed in the libary. But he was not successfull in any of these endeavors. A few years later the school admitted they had been mistaken?/misled?/rednecks? and rescinded the ban on interracial dating provided students had a note from their parents allowing them to do what was once forbidden. Even though Jamie graduated from Bob Jones University, and admits he learned a couple of things there, he resists any attempts to characterize him as ignorant, obtuse, naive, sheltered, racist, socially retarded, Republican, judgemental, pro-war, or mean. Actually, he does admit to being ignorant and having much to learn. He is humbled by and thankful to those professors that showed him kindness, patience and liberty.
After graduation from university, Jamie Doom interned briefly at a public relations firm and decided quickly that he didn’t want to lose his soul right out of college. After that, Jamie worked as an art broker in Asheville, North Carolina and Nashville, Tennessee. For most of his twenties, Jamie worked jobs only so he could travel. He has been fortunate to do a lot of traveling during his increasingly longer life. In Nashville, Jamie also developed a distaste for country music and the University of Tennessee. The University of Tennessee, (da Vols) is located in Knoxville, but there were enough obnoxious UT fans in Nashville to cultivate an adequate, nay healthy hatred. Developing a distaste for country music seems self-explanatory. However, Jamie Doom loves bluegrass. And really loves some new bluegrass. In his eight years away from college, Jamie Doom has worked as a Public Relations Specialist, Car Salesman, Book Seller, Art Broker, Art Consultant, Waiter, Bartender, Bouncer, DJ, Movie Actor, Television Commerical Actor, Basketball Refereee, Freelance Writer, Master of Ceremonies, Advertising Specialist, Event Planner, University Professor, Bookkeeper, Copy-Editor, Grant Writer, Bail Bondsman’s Assistant, Call Center Trainer/Supervisor, Driver, Music Critic, Poet, Marine Biologist and Amateur Fighter Pilot . Along the way, Jamie Doom found that he was not especially great or especially horrible at any of the above. However, the only thing that will ever make him feel forgiven and whole is writing something beautiful and true.
In 2003, Jamie Doom moved to China for about a year and three months. He worked for a non-profit organization in Haikou, Hainan, in conjuction with the Chinese government. He later moved up to Hangzhou, Zhejiang where he worked teaching Oral English, English Literature and Creative English Writing at Zhejiang University City College. He plans on returning one day to China to concentrate on learning Chinese and plans to write an “intelligent” book about China.
For now, Jamie Doom is working on a boat for six weeks at a time and living at his friend’s farm near Asheville, NC where he is working on a novel based on his experience at Bob Jones University and his travels in China, as well as assembling a collection of poems plagiarized from truck stop, diner, and rest area walls in the Western North Carolina area. Jamie Doom has a nasty cough these days and often openly comments, “Any day now.”
For some reason Jamie Doom finds it hilarious and addictive to talk about himself in the third person. However he will, for the sanity of his readers, refrain from talking about himself in this manner ever again. However if you really like third-person talk, my I suggest Shanghaiist, which has taken this to an art form. (example “We at the Shanghaiist loves the new Burger King in Shanghai because they hooked the Shanghaiist up with some extra fries without the Shanghaiist even asking.”
