I have no expectations for this site, I'm just here to see what happens, what comes of it. Hanging out, friendships, whatever - it's all pretty "que sera sera" on this side. That established, let's see - I'm an Anglophile, a trivia fan, and love bloopers and outtakes, especially of newscasters. (That's embarrassing, yes, but why pretend?) Reading is fundamental. (I've always felt bad for people who can't read in the car.) History, I think, is our greatest story. Travel is golden. (A lot of my lottery winnings in the fantasy lottery I win in my imagination occasionally would go toward travel.) Writing and singing also do really well in the ATK's Favorite Pastimes Olympics. Gold medalists. (I don't do either for anything other than personal enjoyment. That is, I'm not in a choir, a musical, or band. Nor am I typically paid for what I write, though I'm working on changing that.) Mucking around in the kitchen (in a non-foodie way), music, laughing, and old movies are also heavy hitters, enjoyment-wise. I'm a sucker for guys in glasses, and the pre-Hipster remix of nerdy/geeky/punky sort.

Is this question supposed to be about work? About the sort of job I do? Hmm. My last job is kind of hard to explain without going into tedious, somewhat obscure detail. Suffice to say it had to do with Internet content, travel, websites like Orbitz and management. Right now, though, I'm mostly preoccupied with assessing what else I'd like to do with my life.

Laughing, writing, fidgeting - alas - goofiness, a romantic take on life, objectivity, trying to find my part, spacial estimation, which comes in super-handy when putting away leftovers, don't underestimate it.

That I'm a guy, I should imagine. That aside, and I can only go on feedback here, I guess I'd have to say my eyes? (Which always strikes me as sort of odd. They're just brown eyes. They're fine. But they're no big woo.)

This is probably my favorite part, because I think compatibility, all sorts, is very much about aesthetics. "Matching" is good, sure, but so is "complementary."

(None of these are in any kind of order.)

Books - "Gone with the Wind," "The Lion in Winter," "Wicked," "A Short History of Nearly Everything," almost any royal biography, "Running with Scissors," "Dry," almost any European history book, cookbooks, the occasional comic book.

Movies - "The Queen," "Weekend," "Truth or Dare," "Queen Christina," "The Hangover," "Ninotchka," "Camille," "Star Wars," "The Empire Strikes Back," "Return of the Jedi," "Beautiful Thing," Emma," "Chocolat," "Clueless," "Breakfast at Tiffany's," "Sliding Doors," "Rear Window," "The Philadelphia Story," "Postcards from the Edge," "War of the Roses," "Charade," "Mary Poppins," "Gone with the Wind," "Overboard," "9 to 5," Desperately Seeking Susan," "Her Majesty Mrs. Brown," "Stage Door," "Bringing Up Baby," "Sense and Sensibility," "Wait Until Dark," "Desk Set," "Two for the Road," "Auntie Mame," "Adam's Rib."

TV - I'm a little out of the loop. However - "Arrested Development," "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," "My So-Called Life," "Mad About You," "Popular," any French & Saunders, "Golden Girls," "Downton Abbey," "Modern Family."

Music - Scissor Sisters, The Ballet, Madonna, Patrick Wolf, Geographer, Blondie, Vampire Weekend, Erasure, Kisses, REM, Mobius Band, Morrissey, The Beatles, The Smiths, Hidden Cameras, Coconut Records, Depeche Mode, and it's starting to look like I'm going to love the Sounds of Arrows album when it comes out. (Ed note: It's out now. I do love it.)

Food - french fries - skinny-type, marinara sauce, salad(s) - all sorts, pizza - NJ/NYC-style, a good steak, Pho is like a dream in a bowl, grits, collard greens and hush puppies, thanks to my Southern mom, salami, cheeses, scones with clotted cream...uh...am I supposed to be doing this by ethnicity, e.g. "Thai," and so forth? Huh. Any cuisine is fine by me: my dislikes come mostly in two, unfortunately large, categories - seafood and mushrooms. Never met a fungus I didn't dislike, and if it lived in water, no matter what kind of water, no matter whether or not it has or had a shell, I am not going to find it tasty. I find it a bit annoying to be honest - kind of counts out an awful lot of food options - and if they invented a magical "Make Seafood Tasty" pill, I'd definitely take it.

If you think about this literally, it's a really scary question, because everything on this list is something one will, at some point, have to do without.

Anyway.

My kid blanket. Yes, I still have it. I still use it. Not Linus-style. In a practical way. It's a big blanket. It's good for naps. Plus, I've had it since I was, like, one.

My father's St. Christopher medal/necklace. I'm not religious, it's just that it was my dad's. Not complicated.

My sense of humour.

Six things? Who came up with this number? Oye. Moving on...

Christmas. I'm a total Christmas head. Love it.

I think I'm done. For now, anyway. (I think I over thought this one. It happens.)

That the world is way too full of stuff we've made. Ok, I don't spend a lot of time thinking about this, but, for instance, when I'm at a mall, I look around, and think "This is only ONE mall in the entire world, out of...how many?! And see that pile of jeans there? Those are only, say, 12 pairs of jeans. But there are more in the back. And there are more of these stores (insert chain name here) all over the world, hundreds and hundreds. And this is just one garment in one store." And so on and so on. Which always leads me to "Where are we going to put all this crap?" Not EVERY movie needs to come out on DVD and Blu-Ray.

I also spend a ton of time thinking about the second question here. Probably more than I do the above jag about all the stuff in the world.

Home, actually. But I'm game for venturing forth.

Sometimes I LIKE my cereal soggy.

You feel like it and/or can appreciate my enjoyment of a Dunks iced coffee in that one pic.