Are you looking for Ted Whitten? ... Guitar player, songwriter, singer extraordinairre? More like, video-game playing, movie-watching, couch potato Ted? Is that the guy? Well I have GREAT NEWS! This is (or was) Ted Whitten's personal web site! Wow!

This page still exists, because ..well ... because I never removed it. Makes sense right? But I no longer update it because I've taken up residence on MySpace to do all my online socializing these days. So if you want to reach me, or read current information about me, you really better visit MySpace. Or you could live in the past, and dwell on days gone by, and wallow in the depths of despair that come from failing to move on, and adapt, and change, and live in the now.

WHO AM I?

This picture of me is about a billion years old (1987), so it's a little innacurate. I no longer have long, curly hair, perfect eyesight, a 28" waistline, and am no longer heart-breakingly good looking. Sorry. I just don't have any recent pictures.

Yeah, right. ;-)

I grew up in Fitchburg, Massachusetts (a graduate of F.H.S.), but currently reside in the Arizona Sonoran Desert. I work with a major airline in a "customer service" position, which I enjoy a lot. Much of my free time is devoted to some aspect of the sport of yo-yo'ing, which has become the major preoccupation of my life. I have written a yo-yo trick book called "The Illustrated Pro-Yo Trick Bible" which I peddle over the internet. Check it out!

Another hobby of mine is CD-R bootleg trading. What that means is, I use my computer's CD-burner to make copies of bootlegs (this just means "unofficial recordings", such as bootleg recordings of live concerts - not illegal copies of officially released store-bought CDs) from my collection, and trade them with other people for bootlegs I don't have yet. Nobody makes any money (that would be illegal), but everyone's collection of rare music grows! This is the coolest thing since sliced bread! If you want to know more about what I'm talking about, read through my web site on the subject ... "Let's Trade!"

I love watching movies, particularly time-travel / romance. My all-time favorite is "Somewhere in Time" with Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour from 1980. For several years I've been a part of a fan organization solely dedicated to "Somewhere in Time" (Yes, you heard that right ... a fan club about ONE movie!!), called INSITE; The International Network of 'Somewhere in Time' Enthusiasts. They publish a beautiful quarterly newsletter, sponsor special showings of SIT in theaters whenever possible, and every year they gather at The Grand Hotel (where the movie was filmed, on Mackinak Island) for a "Somewhere in Time Weekend", with guest appearances from some of the stars, showings of the movie, scene re-enactments, games and contests, and of course everyone dresses in 1912 period attire. I haven't been to this event yet, but have been to a number of other smaller events, and met numerous people from the cast.

Moving on.

I also play guitar (mostly acoustic, but some electric) and write music (mostly Folk, but some Rock and Roll), enjoy reading time-travel books, and I play video games whenever I get the chance (PS2 and PSP).

True love, you're wondering? Yes, I am in love...well, ok... sort of. I met Mary Miles Minter in a museum in London in 1998, and it was love at first sight. The only problem is, the girl's sorta been dead since 1984. So our relationship is somewhat one-sided, I guess you could say. I have a wall decorated with her pictures, which I either purchase on eBay or download and print off the web. Here's my favorite picture of her. Curious to see more? Check out "Faithfully Yours", an internet tribute to one of the most beautiful stars of the silent screen era.

SOME LINKS

A Few of my Favorite Musicians & Bands

Cheap Trick, Indigo Girls, Ozzy Osbourne, Depeche Mode, Yngwie Malmsteen, Enya, Dan Fogelberg

"In promulgating your esoteric cogitations and articulating your superficial sentimentalities;
amicable, philosophical and psychological observations; beware of platitudinous ponderosities."
Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick

Links to some of my family and friends

• Custommade - My father, Ted Whittenkraus, is "Helping people who need woodworkers find woodworkers who need people."
• The Best of Wells - An extensive site Dad & Vic maintain as a travel planner for vacationers to the town of Wells Maine. The tip of the Jetty on the northern end of Wells beach is my favorite spot in the whole world.
• Chris Whitten - My brother's personal web page, with links to his libertarian business venture sites.
• Roger P. Shepard Jr. - My high school buddy Roger has his own 'consulting and design' omputer services business.

   

Other Fun Stuff

• The Yoology Student's Resource - This is a web site I created as an all-around yoyo player's resource .. books, videos, message boards, web sites etc. Come experience the state of yo!
• Romantic Vintage Postcards - Are you an old-fashioned incurable romantic like me? Want a unique romantic way to say hello? I have a large collection of antique postcards that are romantically-themed, and my brother Chris took just a few of these and created this email postcard web site. Check it out!
• Mad Libs (Called "Crazy Libs" for legal reasons) - Yes, those crazy things you filled out with your friends and laughed over as a kid!
• The Dialectizer - Incredible cool! Converts (not permanently) the text on any web page so that it sounds like it was written with a silly dialect, such as "Redneck", "Elmer Fudd", "Cockney" etc. Try it out, just for kicks.
• eBay - World's largest and most popular auction web site.
• Amazon.com - World's largest online bookstore.
• Let's Trade - My collection of rare, unreleased music bootlegs
• For Trade - More interested in yo-yo's (fat chance, I suppose, but you never know), I have lots of yo-yo stuff to trade!
• Pop-Ice! - The tasty frozen treat that I can eat a million of in a single sitting! If you forget to stock up and they have none at Wal-Mart (during the colder months), buy it here.

Sites Under Construction But Coming Soon...
"Cheap-Trick.info" - A Tribute to Cheap Trick, with pictures, lyrics, & whatever I can
come up with that would interest my fellow Cheap Trick fans
"Out-Of-Print But Not Out-Of Reach" - A free resource intended to assist you in finding
anything discontinued or out-of-print - books,movies, music, and more
"Unique Antiques" - An antique collector's resource for ideas about unique, rare, or unusual
antiques people collect, information about them, and tools to help find them
"Time-Travel Books And Movies; For The Time-Travel Fanatic Who Can't Get Enough" -
Reviews & Recommendations about tons of great time-travel books and movies