That’s me on the left.

So apparently there is a blogging tradition where you post 100 things about yourself. So here goes…

The real pressure here seems to be what to list as #1.

1. I was born in Houston, Texas
2. I grew up in Orange, Texas
3. I moved to Austin, Texas in 1992
4. I still live here
5. I can hyperextend both arms
6. My favorite band is Sonic Youth
7. I’ve seen them live eight times
8. One ear rings when I’m trying to go to sleep
9. I have three greyhounds
10. I let them sleep with us at night
11. I’ve worn glasses since I was six years old
12. I’ve never ridden a horse, or been on a horse for that matter
13. I hate marshmallows
14. I called them “nasty candy” when I was very small
15. I actually saw the Grateful Dead at RFK Stadium in 1995
16. I’ve only fallen down in public once, at my rehearsal dinner of all places
17. I think falling down is really funny
18. I broke my wrist in college riding my bike under the influence
19. I then went to a party and didn’t have my wrist set until the next day
20. To this day my wrist still pops when I move it
21. My favorite food is Thai
22. My favorite restaurant is Castle Hill Cafe
23. I like to cook
24. I used to have a 20 pound cat
25. I had him since he was a kitten
26. He was the first thing I got when I moved into an apartment in 1993
27. He was my roommate for the two years I lived alone
28. The most interesting place I’ve ever visited is Montreal, Quebec
29. I visit New York City more than anywhere else
30. If I could go anywhere I would go to Australia or Fiji
31. I don’t like to fly
32. My favorite movie is Raising Arizona
33. My favorite TV show is Lost
34. My guilty pleasure is watching true crime on CourtTV
35. I’m afraid of heights
36. I don’t like spiders very much, either
37. I eat organic food
38. I drive a hybrid
39. I collect clocks
40. I have three antique clocks, two of which were built in the 1800s
41. My favorite book as a kid was Grover and the Everything in the Whole Wide World Museum
42. My first job was spraying shoes at a bowling alley
43. Strangely, I don’t bowl
44. I have never worked in food service
45. I like overcast days
46. My favorite day of the week is Thursday
47. I like space and astronomy
48. I wouldn’t go to the moon if I could
49. But I did get up halfway through a production of King Lear at UT to go look through a telescope
50. My favorite comic is Peanuts
51. My hero is Linus Van Pelt
52. My favorite superhero is Batman because he didn’t have any special powers and instead relied on wits and tools to outsmart villains
53. I was the editor of my high school yearbook
54. I am not a member of any political party
55. I don’t go to church, either
56. I like minor league baseball
57. I’ve only been to the gym three times in my life
58. I still pay membership dues every month to the gym down the street
59. I’ve never been on a diet
60. I love cheese
61. I have high cholesterol
62. But my good cholesterol is high too
63. I’ve never been in a fist fight
64. I’ve never met someone I didn’t like
65. I can’t hold grudges
66. I never stay mad about anything
67. I own a hi-fi stereo
68. I also own over 1,000 CDs
69. Almost half of them are jazz
70. I go to Austin City Limits Music Festival every year
71. I can’t draw to save my life
72. I like Hendrick’s Gin
73. I recently built my own bear on a whim
74. I own an Ibanez bass guitar
75. I can play three songs
76. One is Wave of Mutilation by the Pixies
77. Another is Psycho Killer by the Talking Heads
78. The last one is One of These Days by Pink Floyd
79. I was a vegetarian for several years
80. I still rarely eat red meat
81. I have several animation cels, including one from You’re a Good Sport, Charlie Brown
82. My favorite beer is Anchor Steam
83. My favorite meal is nachos
84. I don’t like it when people assume one world view
85. I have really narrow, hard-to-fit feet
86. I wear a size 4 ¼ ring on my ring finger
87. PC over Mac
88. I like to play video games
89. Galactic Civilizations is my favorite
90. I’m not even embarrassed about it
91. I volunteer every year at a summer camp for kids with cancer
92. I’m also on the board
93. I can’t stay up late
94. I need more than eight hours of sleep every night
95. I only get about seven
96. I don’t like it when things stay too serious for too long
97. I like stand-up comedy
98. My clothes have to be ironed
99. I can’t believe I thought of 99 things
100. My name is on a plaque at BB Rovers for drinking 100 beers