Clint Martin's Blog

About

Clint Martin began his writing career by scribbling critical comments about his high school English teacher in the gutters of tests.  These remarks usually took the form of Green Day lyrics from the album “Dookie” and were met with complete indifference on the part of the teacher which, itself, was one of the issues raised by the marginal protests.

After high school, he served as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in São Paulo, Brazil for two years.  He would later try to exploit the journals he kept during this time for writing material, but unfortunately the journals were written in Portuguese, which proved completely unintelligible to his American readers.

He attended college at the University of Alabama and majored in Telecommunication & Film, Management Information Systems, Computer Science, and Telecommunication & Film (in that order) During this time, he developed the habit of listening to emo rock which would plague him for the next several years.  He graduated Cum Laude in 2006, which would have been impressive if his transcript hadn’t included a class where “Guiding Light” was on the syllabus.

Soon before graduation, he secured a position at a film production company in Atlanta, Georgia where he learned how to use a fax machine and wrote jokes featured in commercials for landscaping bricks and shop towels.

This paragraph would have talked about Clint meeting a lovely woman named Aylissa as well as some witty quips about their wedding, but before that could happen, in 2008 he came out of the closet as a homosexual and started growing an obligatory creepy mustache.  This proved more difficult than he expected (facial hair being difficult for Martin men) and he decided to start a blog instead.  For ten months, he wrote Soy Made Me Gay,which discussed the intricacies of being gay and a practicing Mormon.  He would have continued writing the blog if he wasn’t “kinda over it”.

He now blogs at http://www.clintmartin.net

Publications:

Time Magazine (1999) – “Letters”
What?  We aren’t counting one-sentence letters to the editor?  Why not?  Fine.

University of Alabama (1998, 1999, 2000, 2003-2006)
Like, a million term papers.

Sunstone Magazine (2008) – “Why I Came Out to My Entire Ward”
A short essay detailing my coming out over the pulpit of my local ward.