I'm an aspiring writer living in California striving to differentiate myself from the thousands of other aspiring writers living in California. I grew up in the south and moved up to New York not a moment too soon and perhaps took a bit to long to leave it. I don't smoke and I don't drink coffee because I think that's the only way to actually be an iconoclast, but I secretly wish I did because people look really cool doing both at the same time.

I spend a lot of my time devouring stories in any medium I can get my hands on and I tend to babble about what makes anything I like "brilliant" for way too long if you get me started. Most of my free time when I'm not devouring media is spent talking about it.

I used to watch TV for the man finding product placement. Now I'm trying to get an MA in TV and how it's being effected by the internet (Theory 1: It's forcing perfectly innocent 20 somethings to have jobs finding product placement). I've got a friend from undergrad out here but still more free time than I have social events to go to so I've taken to just wandering around San Francisco occasionally.

I'm pretty much an encyclopedia of culture. My dad was a theater professor my mom was an opera singer and I grew up taking apart my computer so my knowledge pool is pretty broad. Go ahead, ask me anything from the indy to the geeky sides of the spectrum and I bet you I'll know it. I'm a sparkling conversationalist in most contexts and I look good in a suit. I wish I could have been around for the Algonquin Roundtable because I think I would have worked well there.

I hate this question as it's the only one I can never figure out something even moderately clever for. I get told I'm tall a lot?

I like anything that has character depth and an interesting narrative...and a few things that don't have those. More specifically

A)I read comics a lot. which explains why I enjoyed Fragile Things so much. I'm also a big fan of John Hodgeman's The Areas of My Expertise. Then Harry Potter but christ... everyone likes that. I've been reading a lot of Dorothy Parker lately including a biography of her called What Fresh Hell is This? that I really enjoyed. The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Clay is probably my favorite novel in recent history. I really like Guns, Germs and Steel and Everything Bad is Good For You. I used to read a lot of Shakespeare and other classics but now I've sort of had my fill for a bit (not that they're bad of course) and am going into a bit of a sci-fi phase with the Cory Doctorow's new book Little Brother and basically everything Neil Stephenson ever wrote.

B) I really enjoyed Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz and I'm looking forward to Scott Pilgrim. Moon has probably been my favorite film so far this year. I expected to like Extract because I love Idocracy and Office Space but I was basically contemplating walking out of the theater for the entire back half of the movie.

C) I really like Dangermouse and pretty much listen to anything he's involved in. Muse and Ratatat both make me really happy. I've loved Vast since high-school. People who don't like The Beatles are wrong and make me sad. It's been a really exciting year for music what with the new Royksopp and the new Phoenix and the really good Mos Def album. Hopefully it keeps up for these last few months.

D) I'm fairly picky except for Italian, Sushi and diners, where I'll eat anything. I'll go out to eat almost anywhere though. Just don't be offended if I order the most boring thing on the menu.

E) For TV, because for God's sake it should be there. Buffy Angel Firefly for the Whedon Stuff, hell even Dollhouse finally got pretty good toward the end of the first season. Sportsnight West Wing Studio 60 for Sorkin. I also really loved Veronica Mars and Lost but now one is canceled and I'm waiting till the other is over so I can watch it all at once. BSG and Dr. Who get me new TV during the summer so yay them. On the comedy side I love the US version of The Office. I'm also a big fan of all the Adult Swim shows Futurama and The Venture Brothers being my favorites. Misc: Pushing Daisies and How I Met Your Mother.

I love my Macbook as he is my window to the world and typewriter all in one. Dan Akroyd Crystal Skull Vodka. I love pop-culture in general and TV specifically. I can't imagine I'd get any work done without my desk...and that's still only five...

I have this coat I'm pretty fond of?

Where I can find a good nemesis. How to make enough money to live off of by selling ironic t-shirts.

Lately I've been writing papers. If I've heard about a good party or something I'm probably at that but more often than not...writing papers.

For a while I would take the profiles of obvious spambots on OKcupid and reformat them as poetry.

You found anything at all I said here funny or entertaining. We like the same things. You noticed the grammatical mistakes I've inevitably made in my profile but you forgive me for them and will perhaps kindly suggest I correct them.