Hello, hello! (Obligatory Introductory Post)

Hello to you my dear internet explorers, web surfers, online adventures, friends, family and otherwise worldly types. My name is Brogan Wikarek, and this is my Obligatory Introductory Post. That’s OIP for short. I actually kind of like that. Let’s be sure and make it a thing.

I am a native Floridian who just made the big move up to New York City! My flight landed on May 18^th, but it hasn’t really set in yet that I’m not going back. I’m getting settled in slowly but surely, and before you know it I’ll be in my own tiny box of a studio living the life of the starving artist. I’m sure this big, bad city will welcome me with open arms.

“Hello, New York! How are you today?”

“Get out of the way, fuckin’ asshole!”

Ahhh, New York City. How I’ve longed to call you home.

For the sake of formality, I’ll go ahead and at this point assume you have no idea who I am or what I’m doing here. So let me clear some things up.

Who am I?

I’m the only Brogan I’ve ever encountered. Wait, I take that back. I met a girl in college, but she spelled her name Brogen. Weird, right? Either way, there aren’t many of us out there. But I’m the only one that happens to be me. I am 23 years old, have a penis, feel most at home when I’m up on stage acting/singing/dancing (or any combination of the three), would be first in line if public nudity became legalized, quite enjoy all kinds of wine, drink tea like it was water, drink water like it was arsenic (but I’m trying to get better), have been a serial monogamist, fall oddly into the gay stereotype, and consider myself imaginative, creative, and an all around adventurer.

What am I doing here?

Pretty much my entire family is from New York City, the immediate folks at least, and moved down to Florida before I was born. As I grew up, more and more of my family migrated down. Something about Florida seems to fascinate and entice those from the North. Maybe snow really does suck that bad. Well you know what I think sucks? Palm trees! Now that I’m done with University, the time has come for me to flip the family trend on its ass and move some Floridian blood up into the Big Apple.

Any time I’ve visited New York City, I have had to fight the urge to stay. Well I’m done with that. Bring on the city, baby.

And what am I doing…here?

This, being the OIP (make it a thing!), is just me trying to give you all a sense of my style and vibe. From here on out, I’ll be writing about all of the New York City experiences I have along my way to wherever this life takes me. You can laugh with me, laugh at me, learn with me, and otherwise just take from my posts what you will.

So to answer more clearly, I’m here to share my adventure with you. My new life, my new home: New York!