Have you ever Googled your name? Try it. You might get strange results. (Actually, using a word like “Google” as a verb is also strange, but I digress.)
Right here, this is me, folks. It really is. But I wonder sometimes. When I put up this site, I was able to grab the domain “michaelgaither.com”, because mine is an unusual name, right?
So I thought. Armed with Google, the name “michael gaither” seems as common as John Smith:
- One fellow with my name is a principal at Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School in Denver.
- Another Michael Gaither is a professional bowler back in Pennsylvania. This article documents how he was defeated in 2002 by a guy with the last name of Queen. I don’t know what’s more humiliating: Losing a bowling tournament, or losing to a man named Queen. (No offense to us Brian May fans out there.)
- Then there’s this Michael Gaither who interviewed Buddy and Julie Miller for the Santa Cruz Sentinel. Oh. Wait. That one’s really me. Great article, by the way. Check it out.
- My personal favorite, though, is the Michael Gaither from Indiana. Poor guy. Someone posted him at the top of a deliquent parent list. For the record, I have never ever been to Indiana. (The man should be thankful. He used to appear at the top of a Google on our name. Now that I have music pages up, he’s not so promiment in the search results.)
- I also found someone with my name who was arrested for phoning in bomb threats in Philadelphia. I’ve never been there, either. Honest.
Gets very weird, don’t it? I’d better stop.
I’ll dig up other Michael Gaithers in a future entry. (Trust me. There’s lots of them.) For now, check out my music. That’s why THIS Michael Gaither is here. And if you haven’t done so, please signup on my mailing list, so you’ll know when and where Michael Gaither (the one who writes songs) is playing.