I'm aware of a few other The Situations out there, which I consider separate from 'The Situation Room', the news at situation.com, and situation comedies in general. While all of them have their merits, the minds that have been drawn to The Situation are special in a very special way. This post is about, for, and to those other The Situations.

Let this message be framed, as compassionate and genuine, by the idea that there is enough room for all of the situations that are out there. Both in the hearts and minds of the people we seek to entertain, and in accordance with U.S. trademark and copyright law. More than that, it's my hope that instead of just co-existing, we can work together in ways that will facilitate all of our goals.

Here are all The Situation's I know of:

• There was (maybe is) a philadelphia-based band called The Situation at thesituation.org. They released an album in 2006 -- I own it, so I know it's cool, though I wish I would have produced it -- though it now seems safe to call that particular project dead.
• There's currently an artist (?) at the-situation.org. He blogs, from Washington state, about very cool photography and art. Occasionally, his posts are semi-humorous or semi-personal. I wish I could fix his website up a bit better. Dude needs an RSS feed and some search-engine-friendly URLs. Also, I haven't been able to figure out what he actually does. It might be that we could do awesome things together.
• Finally, there is Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino on the MTV reality show "Jersey Shore". I had a hard time watching even one episode of the show, but it was clear, when I did, that Mike is the best thing about it. (And I'm not just saying that because we share two names in common). I'm proud that he was the first of The Situations to get even a glimer of fame, but I hope he gets off that stupid show and into something with a little more integrity soon. If he doesn't, he should be afraid he'll go the way of the dinosaurs and that would be a pity, because there's so much potential. In the coming years, it might be great to make that Situation a character in this Situation.

The least I could hope for is that, between a group of people in their 20s--the begining of their prime--is that some of us, in some way, can join forces. The most I could hope for, I suppose, is that we all do.

For a guy whose name is Mike Stop Continues, you can understand I'm intensely aware of the power of words. I wonder how these words have made an impact.

Recently, I've gotten some questions from different people regarding the when, where, how of The Situation because of the other The Situation's out there. This should clear it up.

When I launched this website in September 2007 at thesituation.us, I didn't think it would be prudent, let alone necessary, to specify that I've been working on The Situation since New Year's Day of 2003. It wasn't until later that year that the name 'The Situation' dawned on me as perfect for the web of reality I needed to build to sooth my borderline insanity. It was then that I first contacted the owner of thesituation.com, James Lee of Taiwan, to purchase it. The price was way higher than I could afford.

I continued to work, over then next years, at times with my friend Michael Marino on the story of our Apostles, our Exemplars, our Icons, though mostly by myself, inside myself, in the most secretive way that I could manage. Outlines turned into summaries, summaries into stories, scripts, musical information, artwork, and so on. I became a man who was pregnant. That's a situation in itself.

I continued to try to buy thesituation.com from James Lee. Sometime he would answer, sometimes I would barter, always I would fail.

Some people believe that becoming rich and famous and respected is a matter of luck. They always talk about things as if life were a lottery. "This is my chance!" "This is my big break!" And when one in a hundred of those people hits whatever lotto they were playing, it's just a matter of time before their luck runs out. I won't name names, because to do so would detract from their descent into obscurity.

Other people, myself included, believe that our success or failures in life are a result of how much time and energy we devote to learning to learn and improve ourselves and our craft. These kinds of people respond well to feedback, view every step of their journey as practice for their succession of ever-improving output, and talk about things in terms of hard work and destiny. Even after the revolution of Relativity, Einstein developed Quantum Physics and if there were ever proof of the truth, it is when he said, "God does not play dice with the universe!" Consider that even when the world was against him, Michael Jackson continued to produce the highest quality music of his career. It's been said that Pablo Picasso made genius in every medium he laid his hands to -- and he did not stop laying his hands to new mediums at any point in his life.

So for me, I knew that even when I opened my website at thesituation.us in 2007 as a compromise, that I was destined to get thesituation.com. I knew that my years of poverty and hard work would pay off when I finally begin released the maze of sight and sound and words and feeling that those of you who stay will come to know of as The Situation. Inevitably.

The worst compromise I made was my attempt at telling the story of The Further You Go... beginning on August 1, 2009 in a way that I did not feel congruent doing. Of course, if I hadn't, the most skeptical 3rd-parties would have wondered if I weren't a predecessor to Mike Sorrentino of "Jersey Shore". The perfection of this, a seemingly chance occurrance, as one of a series, parallel to the blood and sweat I've poured into The Situation, is how one can be certain that they are on the right path.

I owe a great debt to James Lee for finally meeting me at a price that I could afford in December 2009 for thesituation.com, and hope that his life is filled with the benefits of hard work and the riches that destiny have to offer.

More than finding this post informative, may you find in it the a seed that you need to see grow in the ways that your imagination desires and I hope that you're here come summer, when the seeds planted here begin to grow.