because it's been a while



1. How tall are you? 5'10"ish

2. Do you own a gun? guns are for punks.


3. Rehab? Counseling? 40 hours a week as a rehab counselor.

4. Have you ever killed an animal? now that i think about it maybe nothing that wasn't some kind of bug. i went hunting a few times and only saw deer from like 200 yards away in a farmer's field. oh, once when i was camping i killed a frog, rammed a stick up it, (under)cooked it, and ate it. i might not have killed it myself. when i was a counselor at this camp (a junior counselor or something) i got really mad when i took these kids out on a canoe and they kept whacking frogs on the head with the paddle "because it stunned them" so they could catch them easier.

5. Are you Irish? like 40%, but i think it cancels out because i've got like 50-some-odd% english and since they're opposites, you know, mathematics and everything.

6. What do you think of hot dogs? shady, shady, shady. except for coney island, sometimes. also, what do i think about the kind of hot dogs with the skin on them? i try not to, because they're gross. what do i think about people who put ketchup on their hot dogs? i think they should be sterilized.

7. What's your favorite Christmas song? good king wencelas. i started writing something about christmas and then accidentally wrote "christman." too much water and not enough wine? unredeemed sins? this sounds like a job for CHRISTMAN!

8. What is/are your favorite sound(s)? electricity. also, not the rain because i'm sick of this shit.

9. What do you prefer to drink in the morning? Coffee, black if it's good, hot. iced with cream and sugar if i'm more in the mood for a pornographic treat as opposed to coffee.

10. Do you do pushups? actually not as often as i should.

11. Have you ever done ecstasy? i've been ecstatic. but seriously why not save yourself the time and drink brake fluid and rat poison because e's made in the shadiest of situations.

12. Have you been shot? yeah. . . with vaccines!

13. Have you ever been hospitalized? once when i was a kid i drank a bottle of cold medicine.


14. Do you like painkillers? actually quite a bit.

15. What is your secret weapon to lure in the opposite sex? vampire energy-stealing.

16. Do you own a knife? yes. it has an eagle on it and looks cool, and alyisha i think it was said it looks like a knife that i'd own. i have no idea what that means.

17. Do you have A.D.D.? if you mean Another Dreary Day ahead of me, then yes, i do, because it's the end times and hasn't stopped raining.

18. Do you love the pain a tattoo brings? yeah and sometimes i put clothespins on my balls, you know.

19. Name Five Drinks You Regularly Drink: water, diet coke, vitamin water, that coconut sobe one, goat urine.

20. What's In Your CD Player? bob dylan bootleg series volume 7, which actually doubles as the soundtrack to the martin scorsese documentary no direction home which i also bought.

21. What's Under Your Bed? grime and dust and comic books.

22. Current Hair? slept on pompadour.

23. What are you wearing? jeans, batman t-shirt, that red flannel shirt.

24. Current Worry? end of world, what i'll do when mike's gone, which am tomorrow, hoping dave gets over our argument in which i posited that man is the best animal and he posited that that was bullshit. he refused to establish a common measure for ranking animals.

25. Current Love? expensive shoes made by slave labor.

26. Current Hate? expensive shoes made by slave labor.

27. Favorite Place to Be? on the highway, in the woods. specifically i guess the midstate trail.

28. Least Favorite Place To Be? rutland in the midstate trail.

29. Play an Instrument? a whole bunch, half-assedly. guitar, harmonica, ukelele, banjo, others

30. Favorite Colors? blue like at night.

31. Person(s) From Your Past You Wish You Could see again: i pretty much hang out with everyone from my past worth hanging out with. actually now that i think about it, i'd like to be able to get to know my mom's mom who died when i was a baby.

32. Where Would You Like To Go? the mississippi, somewhere vaguely european, i've been having daydreams about england.

33. Where Do you want to live? in my unassuming cabin with an underground lair featuring a giant glass window looking up into a lake. more immediately, the woods, walking everywhere because i choose to

34. Favorite food? Steph's mom's sauce is bland and overrated. damn i like everything.individual food item right now might be bell peppers.

35. Color of most clothes you own? white as in t-shirts i guess. dave insists that they're underwear, and they are. also jeans, i guess.

36. Number of pillows you sleep with? one. i've adapted a more spartan way of sleeping.

37. What do you wear when you go to sleep? nothing usually.

38. what were you doing 12AM last night? parting with mike, going to sleep for work at 8 this morning even though luke's motley south high crew was having a party downstairs.

39. What do you think you'll be doing in 10 years? actually me and mike jsut got really weirded out becasue we realized that in 10 years we'll be pas tthe prime of life, and also in the next ten years we're probably going to do everything important that we're ever going to do.

40. Are you paranoid? in the sense that all day long i think of things but nothing seems to satisfy, think i'll loose my mind if i can't find some thing to pacify. reeeeeow duh duh duhduhduhduhduhduhduhduh. (that was the live version with randy rhoads on 'tribute.'

41. First piercing/tattoo? like every guy says, as soon as my arms get nice enough.

42. Last person you yelled at? i probably yelled at dave last night about good and bad having nothing to do with right and wrong in measuring how man is clearly the best animal.

44. Last thing you ate? two pumpkin spice doughnuts dunked in black coffee.

45. If you could be a pirate, would you? it has been alleged that i have a pirate fetish. that's not true but i'd probably go for it anyways.

46. Do you have an iPod? an evil alternate dimension iPod.

47. When and why did you last vomit? i have no idea, it's actually been a long time i think. i think i might've puked a little when i was sick. as far as drinking goes, i totally don't remember it might've been a year or two.


48. What's in your pockets right now? my nice new pen, my list of things to do, the outline for a few comics i came up with, including 'el matador,' 'matt and charlie on the mta,' and 'fear of the dork,' a couple loose vitamins, my cell phone, my wallet, some loose change, an old lsit of things to do, a bank receipt, and a receipt from dick's sporting goods.

49. What color are your bedroom walls? white. i think.

50. Last thing that made you laugh? a guy at work started shouting "kraut!"


51. Any pets now? tigerlily but i never counted her. aisling assuming she's still alive somewhere, but she never really was mine so much as she appreciated the roof and the food and i appreciated her sleeping in my bed and being warm.

52. Inny or an outty? innie, you outie freaks.

53. Do you have any piercings? like 3 on my ear, one of which still works.

54. If you were a crayon what color would you be? the kind that's a cool color but got named something asinine in that name-a-color contest

55. ever won any awards? i broke the gender barrier sophomore year at holy name by getting the physical education award, an award i am rather proud of. better than some tap dancing award that nice people gave me out of pity to make me feel better about tap-dancing so poorly and out of step.

56. How many TV's do you have in your house: too many like 18.

57. Have you ever sprained/broken/fractured a bone or gotten a bone? i have never broken a bone. unlike dave, i do not get a bone all the time with no stimuli.

58. Who do you tell your dreams to? everyone who will listen, often people who don't, and my mom to weird her out.

59. If you could pick one person to make out with who would it be? the hottie waitress, after she confides her misery in me and we run off together on a motorcycle to lead a simple life in the woods where i tend to a garden and she washes my clothes in a brook while the sun rises on fields of heather, juniper trees and lupines. it would look like this: