05/15/2026
Michael Jackson was the reason I fell in love with music, and ironically, is partly responsible for me becoming a pancake artist.
I moved on to Metallica when I got a little older and angstier, and later to more cerebral stuff like Elvis Costello and Fugazi. But my love for Michael Jackson’s music never left.
It’s a long story, but I became a musician/songwriter, and one of the instruments I picked up along the way was the drums. Which inadvertently got me into this weird little pancake circus I’ve been a part of for over a decade now.
Life is weird, guys. I won’t deny that a lot of my situation is a matter of happenstance and luck, but as the saying goes, “Luck is preparation meeting opportunity.” Somehow, someway, my incredibly disparate set of skills landed me right here.
Michael Jackson Juniata College
