from l. to r., Kevin Kauer, Michael James Schneider, Nick Mattos

This is how it works: life happens the same as always, day after day. You go to work, you go home, you eat ice cream on the couch and pet your cat, and you lose yourself in the routine. Then, one day, everything falls apart — and things get interesting. Then, things get really interesting.Myself, Kevin Kauer, and Nick Mattos are making a webseries, and it’s called *How To Save Your Own Life. It’s about losing everything, and then watching everything get replaced. It’s about finding new cities, new health, and new love. It’s about the eerie similarities and threads that connect us all. It’s going to be really damn good.

This will be our story from when the stuff started getting really interesting in all of our lives, in the summer of 2012. You’ll see yourself in it a lot. It will be gritty. It’ll be real. And just like real life, it’ll be really damn funny, until it isn’t. It’s going to be based largely on the stories told in Nick’s PQ Monthly column Everything Is Connected (the title even comes from a particularly good column he wrote), from Kevin’s popular webmagazine, and my writing on this blog, in particular the “Single Gay Time Traveler” and “Brother’s Keeper” posts.

We’re in the scripting stages right now, and it’ll be directed by the talented Racquel Russo. The next steps will be storyboarding and casting, and we’re on a fast track to start filming in spring of 2015 in Los Angeles, Seattle, and Portland. We’re currently looking for more people to help us: we guarantee it’ll be a really fun time.

You see, everything is simple. Everything is complicated.

And everything is the most interesting when it falls apart.