The Missing Business Card Recovered (Sort of)!

Those of you foolish or bored enough to be regular readers know that for posterity's sake I have been posting old photos, newspaper articles, and promo pieces. If I am ever even remotely famous this kind of crap will be cherished and appreciated...or at least sold on eBay.

Back in November of 2004 I posted a scan of my very first business card.

By May of 2005 I shared with you what ended up being my second and third business cards (same design, two different addresses).

In the May post I lamented the loss of my fourth business card. I didn't keep one for myself and after a massive search I could not find any family members, past agents or past girlfriends that still had one.

However, while shredding and tossing YEARS worth of old contracts yesterday I came across the original design for the card.

Notice the same kinda lame/kinda cool artwork provided by yours truly. Less "in your face" than my previous card and a bit more classy.

The name of the show, "Random Juggling & Inspirational Entertainment" came from a guy that would later become my roommate and partner in (drunken) crime. One night, while we were out drinking and trying to find ladies willing to touch our ugly parts, someone asked me what I did for cash when not performing. I was a bit tipsy at the time and for the life of me I couldn't come up with phrases like, "juggling" or "entertaining", so my sentence started out, "Well, when I'm not out there doing...", my awkward pause was saved when Mike (roommate) interjected, "...Random juggling & inspirational entertainment." In my mind that was about as cool a name for a show as possible and I vowed to one day put that on a business card.

The problem was, too many people read the name and thought I was some sort of motivational or devotional speaker and it may have confused more people than amused them. I was stuck with the name for a long time though as it ended up on THOUSANDS of brochures (I'll post scans of brochures another time).

Before I got my computer and learned how to do things like make contracts and databases I ended up just Xeroxing the business card onto some paper and pretended to have actual letterhead. What a cheap bastard! I'd been relatively out of the business for a little bit for various reasons so this was a big step in bringing me back into semi-professionalism. I didn't even spring for a color copy, so technically, this is not quite what my card looked like.

However, with the magic of crappy consumer imaging technology I can create a reasonable facsimile of the card for your viewing pleasure.

I was considering printing scans of some old contracts and such, but really...how much humiliation at my own hands can I take? Besides I was really jamming at the shredding and tossing yesterday and it took all the strength I had to scan the header for this post.

I'm still interested in getting my hands on an original business card like this one. Now that you have a visual to work with, if you happen to have one of these resting in a file cabinet or wallet somewhere, e-mail me and I'll happily pay for the card. I know I could simply reprint them, but why? LOL!