# Darrin Doyle

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Podcast: [Something Rather Than Nothing](https://stenobird.com/podcast/something-rather-than-nothing-250011)
Published: 2026-01-27T21:57:56+00:00
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Darrin Doyle [https://www.darrindoyle.com/] was born in Saginaw, Michigan. He has worked as a paperboy, a janitor, a mover, a telemarketer, a door-to-door salesman, a Kinko's Copy Consultant, a porn store clerk, a pizza delivery guy, a prep cook, a magazine store clerk, a technical writer, a freelance newspaper writer, an English teacher in Japan, and finally, a professor and an author. Darrin has a brown belt in Tae Kwon Do and wishes he had stuck with it a little longer to get the danged black belt. Darrin hoards and plays lots of musical instruments: guitar, piano, drums, mandolin, banjo, bass, ukelele, and a diatonic 4-string stick dulcimer [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FshiDVafecI]. He lives in Mount Pleasant, Michigan and teaches at Central Michigan University. He knows what skeletons do.

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