In all seriousness, don't feel obligated to respond to this with anything-including derogatory statements and vile epithets-unless you want to. That being said, if you decide to write one of these-you conformist sheep, you-I'll in all likelihood read, and respond to it.
Now that the prefatory remarks are out the way, here goes:
1. I used to own a pet snake-my only real pet-but it escaped after biting me repeatedly. It's probably meandering its way through the NYC sewer system as we speak.
2. I have a deviated septum
3. One of my first job interviews out of college-when I still harbored illusions of becoming a journalist-was with the managing editor of the New York Press. This was the period between the New York Press being a readable tabloid-broadsheet hybrid, and turning into a total rag, which isn't worth the paper it's printed upon. Showed up in a three piece suit, only to be interviewed by someone who looked like he had been following the Grateful Dead on tour for the past year, and who had never heard of Eric Breindel, despite the fact that he was the managing editor of a purported newspaper. Things went down hill from the there. I did get to meet Jim Knipfel though so it wasn't a total loss.
4. Riffing on Teresa's theme, I was actually pretty good at math until around the eighth grade or so when I encountered quadratic equations for the first time in my life. Again, things got progressively worse from that point on.
5. I won a silver medal, magna cum laude, in the National Latin Exam during my sophomore year of high school.
6. I made a brief appearance in a documentary about the 2004 election, and people in New York City who were involved in the 2004 election, which premiered at my favorite movie house, Anthology Film Archives. You can probably order it on Netflix.
7. I currently own more than three hundred books, although I'm always adding or subtracting volumes that I either don't need or want to add to my personal library.
8. I still have hundreds of magazines-including the infamous Sports Illustrated cover of O.J. Simpson the day of his arraignment in his first criminal trial in 1995.
9. Have never broken a bone, although I have many scars.
10. I'm a blood and platelet donor.
11. I briefly worked as an elections inspector during the 2004 election, which I wouldn't suggest to anyone unless that person is already a complete and utter misanthrope.
12. I do take photos of interesting people/places/things I spot when I'm out in public, most of them with my cell phone. My apologies to Congressman King.
13. I worked in a storage locker in Caesar's Bay for two months during the dead of Winter with no heater, and it was not as pleasant as it sounds.
14. I don't currently have a weblog, sorry.
15. I've rooted, mostly in vain, for the Buffalo Bills since 1992.
16. I'm currently writing this on a Mac, which I'm using as my primary computer for the first time in my life.
17. #15, only substitute "New York Knicks" for "Buffalo Bills."
18. I love playing chess, but have only played sporadically-and mostly online-over the past few years.
19. I also love playing basketball, which-unfortunately-I've also not been able to play too often since college.
20. I own, with a few notable exceptions, nearly every book written by Stephen King up to the final, eponymous volume of The Dark Tower. I've not purchased a single book he's written since that novel was released.
21. I watched Los Lobos perform as part of the Summer concert series held at the WTC, sometime in 1999 or the year 2000.
22. I wanted to be a paleontologist for a few years when I was still in elementary school. The urge passed.
23. I have double jointed fingers. Don't ask me why.
24. I auditioned unsuccessfully for The Weakest Link when its American edition premiered. Apparently, I'm not good at answering trivia questions.
25. The best musical I've seen recently was, believe it or not, the Broadway musical starring Bob Saget.
25 Random Things
Originally Posted by Rjeso
...therefore I do not get along with them!
You're short 2!
