This is the digital home of Jamie Joseph Pulley and serves primarily as a platform to showcase his professional work as a graphic designer while also acting as a sandbox for conducting some of his digital experiments, most notably the blog, where he opines on a variety of subjects of interest including art, design, sports, politics, popular culture, and travel. While “offline” he enjoys actually going outside and playing nice with people.

Hell, who am I fooling?! Anyone who knows me knows I don’t refer to myself in the third person. Yuck. But since I’m not that good at writing about myself presented below is an alternative source of insight into the “JJP”, in no particular order:

100 things I want to accomplish before I die…

(note: whatever is crossed out means I’ve done it.)

1. Save somebody’s life.
2. Run for office.
3. Take a trip into low Earth orbit.
4. Set foot on the moon.
5. Take a Schvitz.
6. Attend and complete graduate school.
7. Drive across the United States from coast to coast. (done it 3 times)
8. Go around the world on a single trip.
9. Sail the ocean blue without the slightest urge to write a book about it.
10. Be a member of the audience in a TV show.

11. Quit a job, loudly and righteously and with great streams of triumphant profanity.
12. Build a valuable business. Sell it. Enjoy.
13. Grow out my hair as long as it will get and keep it that way for at least a year. (10 years now and counting…)
14. Shave my head.
15. Grow a beard and leave it for at least 3 months.
16. Live and work in a foreign country.
17. Live under an assumed name, someplace far away, like the Jordanian desert, where it’s handy to have a long flowing beard.
18. Take a ride on a Russian MIG-Figther jet.
19. Own my own island.
20. Stop a war from happening.

21. Audition for something.
22. Fast for a week.
23. Get into the best shape of my life.
24. Embrace a lengthy and passionate kiss in the pouring rain.
25. Watch a launch of the space shuttle.
26. Circumnavigate Corsica on a bright-red Ducati.
27. Ride a borough through the agave fields of Oaxaca.
28. Drink beer at Oktoberfest in Munich.
29. Look a mobster in the eye.
30. Test drive a car I really can’t afford; take up the salesman day with lots of questions; and, after a goodly amount of time, in class-action payback for all car buyers everywhere, say “Thanks, but no thanks”.

31. Witness the Aurora Borealis in person.
32. Get married.
33. Design a house.
34. Build the house.
35. Failing that, someday, stop renting and buy a house.
36. Drive an 18 Wheeler.
37. Arm-wrestle a stranger in a bar.
38. Deliver an eulogy (the later in life the better).
39. Make a toast at a wedding — short, funny, thoughtful toast.
40. Call the person I think I wronged the most. Apologize.

41. Get in touch with a long-lost friend.
42. Make a million dollars.
43. Visit the Senate and the House of Representatives to see how Congress really works.
44. Refuse to pay for a lousy meal.
45. Stiff a bad waiter.
46. Give a panhandler a hundred bucks.
47. Let her drive.
48. Learn to speak & write Spanish fluently.
49. Patent something.
50. Let someone else take the credit.

51. Have a suit custom made.
52. Have shoes custom made.
53. Failing that at least buy a really nice suit and a pair of shoes.
54. Drink Bordeaux in Bordeaux, Champagne in Champagne and Champale from a paper bag on a park bench.
55. Sleep on a park bench. Note the discomfort.
56. Spend 24 hours alone in the jungle.
57. Eat food I’ve grown.
58. Eat food my neighbor has grown, without permission, at night, and let the juice dribble down my chin.
59. Pass up an opportunity to attend the Burning man festival.
60. Fake an orgasm.

61. Cycle through the Adirondacks and the Pacific Coast Highway.
62. Climb Machu Picchu.
63. Take a ride in a hot air ballon. Then get lost.
64. Learn sign language.
65. Wish upon a shooting star.
66. Hike the Grand Canyon.
67. Travel India by train.
68. Ride an elephant through the jungles of Thailand.
69. Visit the Great Wall of China.
70. Climb the Great Pyramid of Egypt.

71. Set foot on each of the seven continents; only then I’ll consider myself a world traveler.
72. Pick the music for my funeral.
73. Perfect the mixing of a killer cocktail and make this my signature drink.
74. Participate in a public protest.
75. Join a picket line.
76. Commit an act of civil disobedience.
77. Swim with some dolphins.
78. Drive through Europe, chiefly through Italy, Germany, France and Spain.
79. Teach English in a foreign country.
80. Yell from the top of Taipei 101 and Burj Khalifa.

81. Brew my own beer.
82. Tell someone the story of your life, sparing no details.
83. Fall deeply in love – helplessly and unconditionally.
84. Create a manifesto.
85. Get a role in a film as Extra.
86. Make and direct a film.
87. Take a job that involves a shovel and hammer.
88. Learn the names of birds, trees, flowers, insects, topographical features, and constellations. Impart this knowledge to children.
89. Sleep under the stars
90. Cheat Death.

91. Write a poem. Maybe a Haiku to start.
92. Write and then publish a book (just not one on that ocean trip).
93. Pass on a nugget of knowledge.
94. Read all the books on my “to read before I die” list.
95. Be in the stands when two rival South American club teams play each other in futbol.
96. Leave something behind.
97. Create my own custom typeface.
98. Sit on a jury.
99. Deliver a letter by carrier pigeon.
100. Live large.