This started off as a Facebook meme, and happily it coincided with my decision to post more stuff on this blog regardless of quality. So, seeing as it's a meme and all, consider yourself tagged, so if you do this on your blog just post a comment indicating that you did and I will drop whatever it is I'm doing and will immediately rush to your blog and read your list of random things and you and I will marvel together at the sheer utter randomness of it all, our little lives, the world, the Universe, all of it.
25. I’ve been pecked in the leg by an irate emperor penguin.
24. I can play the bass guitar and the saxophone.
23. I went to high school in Anchorage, Alaska.
22. I was both a frat boy and a Republican in college. I'm not ashamed of being either.
21. I own four surfboards.
20. I've bribed a Mexican cop.
19. I was a contestant on “Jeopardy”. Yes, the real “Jeopardy”. With Alex Trebek.
18. I have a crippling fear of primates.
17. I've been in a shark cage and I've gone swimming with dolphins.
16. I'm turning 40 this May and am seriously considering buying a Harley. Don't tell anyone.
15. I'm a former rugby player.
14. I still ride a skateboard.
13. I'm a pretty good cook.
12. I have "hitchhiker's thumbs", i.e., they bend backwards when extended. It's kinda freaky.
11. For as much as I do it, and considering that I have a formal education in it, I frigging hate talking about politics.
10. I write for 5 blogs (one's a private surfing blog), yet I only regularly read a handful.
9. Dammit! I brought my lunch to work today but I left it in the car. Hopefully it won't spoil.
8. I have 11 different hats in the rotation. 3 beanies, 4 baseball caps, 2 driver's caps, 1 porkpie, and 1 fedora.
7. I'm not the Jason Avant who plays for the Philadelphia Eagles.
6. I believe that most people who claim to love "The Wire" and Radiohead say that to make themselves look smart.
5. I've been to Loch Ness, but did not see the monster.
4. I have this weird bump under my right eye. It's been there for years. Should I have it looked at?
3. My personal Martini: 2 measures gin, 1 measure vodka, splash of vermouth, 2 blue cheese-stuffed olives.
2. I have no desire to get an iPhone.
1. I got more rhymes than Jamaica's got mangos.
