25 Things You Might Not Have Known About Me

I'm not really a big Facebook fan. I check in maybe every two or three days or so. But I had been "tagged" by friends and asked to post a list of twenty-five random facts about myself. For the benefit of my readers without Facebook accounts, here is that list.

1. The right side of my body looks almost exactly like the left side. On the outside, at least. I don't know about the inside.
2. I think you have to admit that Chariots of the Gods gives you a lot to think about.
3. I have never eaten human flesh and I have no desire to do so.
4. I am not very good at making lists with more than 17 items on them.
5. My favorite day of the week is Thursday. Favorite time of the day: 5:21 pm.
6. I once dreamed that someone confused me with Judd Hirsch. I decided to just play along.
7. I used to wear a t-shirt with a picture of Wittgenstein on it.
8. I am fond of pointing out the parallels between Strange Brew and Hamlet. Just ask me.
9. If you get a couple of drinks in me, I get pretty wild. Wait. That's not me. I don't drink. Never mind.
10. I'm married to a woman who once arm wrestled the bass player from New Order. She won.
11. I guess I like Mickey Rooney okay but not as much as some people do.
12. I don't own a cell phone and I don't know anybody who does.
13. (This is an unlucky number so I don't have to do this one)
14. It's kind of hard to explain, but there's something about chocolate pudding that I find immensely satisfying.
15. I have eaten roasted guinea pig and enjoyed it. I have also eaten live guinea pig and didn't like it as much.
16. I have been known to wear a lady's suit to work (wait, that wasn't me. That was Michael Scott).
17. I have an unshakable testimony that Arrested Development is the greatest television show of all time.
18. When I was very young, I used to watch boring shows on PBS because I was afraid no one else was watching and I didn't want the people on TV to feel bad.
19. I sent Roddy Frame a wedding invitation. He couldn't make it but he sent a nice card (no money, though).
20. When I was about five years old, I would marvel for hours at the fact that my hand would move just because I would think of moving it. I still marvel for hours at this.
21. If the temple recommend questions are ever changed to forbid drinking Diet Coke, I'm going to have a hard choice to make.
22. I don't get the point of "texting." So that's what, like typing with your thumbs? Is that supposed to be funny?
23. I have finally come to grips with the fact that I probably will never make an NFL roster. I knew it was unlikely I would ever be drafted since I never played anything beyond Jr. High football. But a guy can dream, can't he? I guess not.
24. I can read with my eyes shut. That is very hard to do.
25. I have a short attention span, which has now been maxed out.