a man, that’s all.
Me, James Allendale Mathias. Hmmm, what about me, let’s see. I’m forever married to an absolutely wonderful woman with whom I’ve fathered and help care for three amazing boys.
I’m an artist, writer and web designer/developer from Idaho, by way of Oregon, by way of Arizona, by way of California. I’ve lived all over the West Coast, but I like to consider myself a Pacific North-westerner and primarily an Oregonian—Go Ducks!
Our family includes two cats (Trinity Marie and Dali Salvadora), an apricot pug (Dominus King), a Shih Tzu/Chihuahua mix (Temperance Joy), two fish (Sucky McSuckerton, Kat) and we miss our rats (Doyle (2005–2007) and Spike (2005–2006)).
For the last year and a half, I’ve been involved in the long process of losing weight. So far, I've lost one-hundred and twenty-six pounds overall and have about seventy or so pounds left to lose. For me it's about getting healthy and fit through proper exercise habits and by practicing eating correctly.
I lost my father—he’s alive I just can’t see him. I was molested as a young child and I struggle with that still. Overall my life has been ups and downs—good and bad. But, it’s all been my life. And I would not change a single thing about it.
I’m a practicing Tibetan buddhist who likes to make lists and has far too many DVDs
If you like what you've read, please let me know and hang around. If on the other hand you dislike me (really?), or think I’m a dork (I can see that), keep it to yourself and move on, life is way too short to spend it being an asshole to strangers.
Overall, I think you’ll enjoy me more if you; enjoy inane-cheesy humor, illustrations, life inspiration, laughing, crying, oohhh-ahhing etc…
leihu?
At leihu, I talk about movies, music, gaming, art, life and general crap.
The name leihu is the combination of two english pronunciations for Chinese symbols (kanji), broken down it’s lei (leigh) for thunder and hu (who) for tiger.
I came up with the name one night while brain-storming for a web-site name with my wife, the best idea was jamGraphix. Needless to say it was utter crap.
Being a Buddhist, I kind of follow Chinese astrology, in that philosophy I’m a tiger born in 1974—coincidentally, my eldest son is also a tiger born in 1998 almost exactly twenty-four years apart only one month and one day difference—I looked up tiger in my Chinese Kanji Reference Dictionary (what you don't have one?) and right there next to tiger was thunder or lei and they sounded great together, and thus leihu was born.
The Artistic Outlaw?
At The Artistic Outlaw, I talk about web-development, design and general industry nonsense.
The Artistic Outlaw is a job title I gave myself a while back. It embodies my passion for art, and my stubbornness to conform. It also has a good measure of light-hearted humor behind it. I like it mostly, because it communicates something about me and the industry I love that can't be easily nailed down.
Plus, who didn't want to be Billy the Kid growing up?