What Is This?
Shaun Spalding creates a blog for his pre-2008 personal work that gives meaning to his life by aggrandizing his personal work and pretending it’s worth talking about. Readers feel a strong sense of apathy toward the content and decide to look at the pictures and videos while skipping the overwrought text surrounding them. Shaun considers making the text into pictures.

Who is Shaun Spalding?
Shaun Spalding the best intellectual property attorney in San Diego, CA and possibly the world. Having worked as a commercial video producer, web designer, and freelance writer, he seems to have done a little of everything except find time to create a real online portfolio. Until he creates one, you can read his thoughts on intellectual property and how the world works at heavytargets.com. Contact him for legal advice or to read his unfinished screenplays.

Who does Shaun Spalding think he is?
In 2006 (six years after the apocalypse), Shaun Spalding (dressed in rags) dug his way through the ruins of what once was Gainesville, Florida. Amongst the rubble of The Swamp restaurant, he found a promotional pen advertising 2-for-1 drink specials at Sky Night Club. Using this pen and the robust sense of grit he developed while learning to survive in an uncertain future, Shaun wrote the manuscript of what would become “Because The Boss Said So.” The play became one of the world’s last remaining artistic treasures until it was confiscated by the oppressive New World Order government that censored and sanitized it beyond recognition. Defeated, Shaun now spends his days fondly reminiscing about a pre-Armageddon world and pretending to be a film major at what remains of the University of Florida.
-Bio I wrote for the Playbill of “Because the Boss Said So”, Hippodrome Theatre, Gainesville FL (2006)

Other people say:

“The way Shaun Spalding sees it, talent is just one component of greatness. The real secret, he said, is to try new things regularly and keep working at them. Now in his third year as a film and media studies major, Spalding has already received some exciting attention.”
-UF Spotlight
http://www.ufl.edu/spotlight/spalding.html

“Shaun toiled day and night on the album artwork for “through the belly of the sea” (our new album, you might have heard about it). We cried, we winced, we’re still not sure if it will be back from the printers in time. He truly made the packaging a work of art and we’re greatly appreciative of him. …we still haven’t paid him.”
-Eric Atria
http://www.morningbellonline.com/appreciation-month/

“He is one of the few people in this world who literally live the phrase ‘The buck stops here.’ I have in fact told him I will make him a shirt with that on it for the myriad of things that he has done and not just talked about.”
-Kamphey.com
http://kamphey.wordpress.com/2007/06/05/person-of-the-day-june-5th-2007/

“Shaun Spalding is a true genius. If only J.K. Rowling hadn’t stolen his early manuscripts, he might have a modicum of the recognition that he deserves. ”
-Alex Casola
http://www.amazon.com/Firework-Over-Lake-Michigan-ebook/dp/B002Q0XZRW/ref=pd_ecc_rvi_cart_1

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Interests:
sincerity, conflict theory, socio-politics, economics, moral pluralism, group psychology, anti-humor, capitalism, strategy, contrarianism, the movie industry, opportunity cost, nostalgia

Hobbies:
writing, entrepreneurship, filmmaking, music, negotiation

Favorite Music:
Randy Newman, Regina Spektor, Tom Waits, The Kinks, Sufjan Stevens, XTC, Nellie McKay, Morningbell, Tom Waits, 20 Minute Loop, The Beatles, Ghostface Killah

Favorite Movies:
Boogie Nights, Do The Right Thing, Chicago, Brazil, Crank 2, Inglourious Basterds, District 9, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

Favorite TV Shows:
Breaking Bad,Cowboy Bebop, 30 Rock, Boondocks, Rocko’s Modern Life, Sifl and Olly

Favorite Books:
Snow Crash, Lolita, Neuromancer, Life of Pi, The Power of One, A Land Remembered, I Robot

Favorite Comic Books:
Y: The Last Man (Brian K Vaughn), Girls (The Luna Brothers), Young Liars (David Lapham), Black Hole (Charles Burns)

Organizations:

Favorite Quotes:
“We all get the same amount of ice. The rich get it in the summer. The poor get it in the winter.”
-The last words of Bat Masterson

“Tiger got to hunt,
Bird got to fly;
Man got to sit and wonder, ‘Why, why, why?’
Tiger got to sleep,
Bird got to land,
Man got to tell himself he understand.”
-Kurt Vonnegut, “Cat’s Cradle”

“You gotta love everybody!
Make ‘em feel good about themselves.”
-The Presidents of the United States of America