User:Michaelwsherman

Michael Wesley Sherman was born in 1980 or 1981. He was raised in New Jersey. As a young man growing up in the sleaze of Paramus, Sherman was looking for a different way of life. He left home at the age of 16, and began to walk the earth. He dabbled in areas such as gun slinging and Buddhism, in Texas, and Nepal, respectively. His travels are extensively detailed in his book "Diplomacy is Dead" (Cloudy Day Books, 1999). After returning to the states, Sherman attained his GED and enrolled at Tufts, but never finished his first semester. The east coast life no longer suited Sherman's broader worldview. Searching for a new place to call home, Sherman eventually enrolled at Northwestern University in winter 2000. His move to Chicago began a renaissance in Sherman's creative life.

For the first time, he was surrounded by a community that enjoyed theatre, politics, and nudity as much as he did. After nearly being expelled for his role in a campus scandal known as the naked party, Sherman went on to reform his ways and lay off the bottle. Unfortunately, this coincided with his deep involvement in Denis Kucinich's aborted presidential campaign. After the campaign faltered and eventually failed, Sherman became deeply depressed. Without the bottle to sustain him, he became vulnerable and succumbed to the throes of heroin addiction. As the horse slowly destroyed his body, it gave a new life to his creative mind. In the fall of that year, Sherman directed the critically acclaimed play "Phaedra's Love," the modern retelling of Seneca's classic tale. The play featured an all-star cast (with several members now working on Broadway) and outstanding sound design by the up-and-coming composer Philip Ass. Shortly after the plays success, Sherman founded the post-post-post-noise punk band "Burn the Whore." In their most brilliant and short-lived performance, the band were ejected from the stage at the Keg in Evanston, IL, for alleged sodomy and drug use. Both allegations proved to be true, as Sherman is widely credited as having been first to perform the sexual technique "chicken chow-mein." Between his artistic pursuits, Sherman found time to be a lead columnist at the Daily Northwestern, writing biting commentary and satire that ripped the alcohol-fueled, misogynistic and ultimately amoral culture of Northwestern's Greek system. His incisive criticism of certain faculty, however, proved to be too much for the administration to bear, and Sherman was forced to resign.

After graduation, Sherman tried to escape both his demons his dealers by fleeing back to the east coast. Unable to hold a steady job, and unable to put together a steady creative project to sustain himself, Sherman found employment at the John Popper Gastrointestinal Bypass clinic in Trenton, NJ. Depressed by the daily fatness and misery which surrounded him, Sherman returned to riding the white horse. After months of steadily spiraling downward, Sherman was seen in Chicago briefly in fall 2004, where his role as a naked partier was reprised. This was also the time he returned to alcohol abuse. After a short time, Sherman returned to the coast, but was never heard from again. He is rumored to be living in the Boston area, where he tests video games for a game publisher.

I was the roomate of michael sherman when he lived in Chicago, and he almost exposed his no-no parts to my mother when she came to visit our apartment at 5:30 pm. He had woken up at 5:30pm from a puke-filled early morning slumber, and he came out of his room wearing only a misplaced towel and a smile. He was a good roomate, though. One of the best. A veritable legend. The man, the myth, the legend, Michael W. Sherman. Is he still alive?