100 Things About Me (1-25)

1. I was born in Los Angeles, California, raised in Anchorage, Alaska and have since lived in Portland, Seattle, Cleveland, Las Vegas and Reno.
   
2. Ethnically speaking, I'm a mutt - a mix of Irish, Mexican and Scottish.
3. Spiritually speaking, I'm a mutt - a little Taoism here, some Buddhism there, toss in a handful of particularly poignant song lyrics, and a fortune cookie slogan or two and you pretty much get the idea.
4. I think you'd be hard pressed to find anything more evil in this world than organized religion. Except maybe politics.
5. I truly believe you can learn everything you need to know about being a good person and how to treat others and the world around you from Kermit the Frog.
6. I can't stand compliments.
7. I have no contact with either of my biological parents or siblings. There's an unspoken agreement that it's just better that way.
8. Consequently, I've had to redefine and reorganize my concept of "family." I think I've done a pretty good job.
9. I met Molliwogg in a high school photography class. We wound up dating for a couple months, then broke up. Eight years later she called me out of the blue while I was living in Seattle. I moved to Alaska for a couple months, she later moved down to Portland with me, and we've been married ever since. Life goes in cycles.
10. I've known my best friend for twenty years now. I don't know why, but that blows me away.
11. I listen to Christmas music everyday.
12. The craziest drug experience I've had was in high school when, along with three friends, I took 6-8 over-the-counter motion sickness pills and hallucinated for the next 16 hours straight. I've dropped a lot of acid in my time and the this trip put the others to shame. It's the difference between an old-fashioned black and white TV and HD. Highlights include a group hallucination of two kids fighting in the middle of the street at four in the morning over a piece of steak, and stalking about my house Willard-style unplugging every appliance I could find in an effort to turn off the music that wasn't playing in the first place.
13. I had a gun pulled on me while tripping on acid once. I'll never forget that.
14. Unfortunately, that's not the only time I've looked down the business end of a gun.
15. Despite my experience with guns, despite being a bleeding-heart-pinko-commie-liberal, I'm all for the second amendment and have zero problems with firearms (unless they happen to be pointed in my general direction). I just think making the argument that AK-47's and other automatic weapons are for "hunting" is pretty retarded.
16. In the 8th grade I got into my first real fight. During the course of the fight I slammed my opponent's face into a locker and smashed out his front teeth. I carry a lot of guilt over that to this day - there's nothing more sickening than knowing someone is carrying around that kind of permanent reminder of you. At any rate that fight pretty much turned me on to pacifism in every situation other than pure self-defense.
17. I've worked for MTV, Kodak, Xerox, adidas and a handful of software companies you know by name. Essentially, I'm a corporate whore with a spotty resume.
18. The day gigs serve no other purpose than to pay for the dream gig - writing. I have zero career aspirations other than to gain the ability to print my own books.
19. I'm a pretty kicking cook. I went vegetarian for about three years in an attempt to jump start the way I think about food. The end result was a healthy (literally and figuratively) passion for cooking.
20. For reasons I don't fully understand, complete strangers have a tendency to come up to me out of the blue and tell me their life stories and problems. This has happened more times than I can count. I'm not sure if I have the face of a psychologist or what, but I've had people tell me things they wouldn't tell the people who are closest to them. Makes going down to the neighborhood tavern fun.
21. I have a severe love/hate relationship with Portland, Oregon. Everyone in that town is fucking nuts. If you've ever lived of visited PDX, you know I'm not exaggerating. Intellectual rednecks is a term that comes to mind and depending on what day of the week you ask, that's either an insult or the highest compliment. Still, Portland knows how to drink and for that I have to give it props.
22. The first concert I went to I accidentally set someone's hair on fire.
23. While an accident, it was probably symptomatic of a greater leaning towards pyromania. When I was a kid I set a couple empty fields on fire and burned down the garden section of the local Pay-n-Save. Now I conduct my "experiments" only in the fireplace.
24. Based on those experiments I can tell you that burning chicken bones will make your entire house smell like B.O. for a minimum of a week and that Levi jeans retain their shape even while transformed into glowing embers.
25. Although I haven't watched it regularly in a while, I have an unabashed love for professional wrestling.
    

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