I'm a pretty ordinary guy, courteous to children and the elderly, (usually)bright enough to keep himself out of trouble, yet I always end up in the most bizarre situations. Shanghaied (sp?) in strange places like Newark Airport or Spokane, WA, on the run from hurricanes on the last Amtrak out of New Orleans, having to jog 6 miles through Vegas at 5 AM to find my hotel, being robbed by strippers and hobos, accosted by police and pool security, dead bodies floating ashore in the Hillsborough 10 feet from my dormitory house - I'm sort of a magnet for the surreal. But I promise, I'm a normal guy. I just have an abnormal empirical learning curve. When I'm not navigating some misadventure, I enjoy a good book, exercise, chilling out and enjoying an evening in with a movie or maybe some Adult Swim, having a pint with my mates, and lovingly bickering with my family about whether "I don't call enough."

Currently, field property adjustment as part of a catastrophe response team for an insurance company (I travel... a lot). I'm also part of several investment opportunities in local shitty watering holes at which I spend far too much free time when I'm actually home. I'm hoping to go back to school and finish up my masters soon-ish (right after I accrue enough airline miles and steal enough office supplies from my job).

I don't fit in. No, literally, I'm huge, 6'6", I don't fit, anywhere. That in concert with my WINNING SMILE :-D, my colorful use of profanity, and keen love of fine brew.

Crichton, HS Thompson, Bukowski, some Hemingway, Stephen Hunter for artful violence, horror greats like King and Koontz, Steven Levitt, Robin Moore, HG Wells and Jules Verne (cuz I'm a nerd).

As movies are too many to count, I'll go by director: absolutely anything by Michael Mann, most David Fincher, all Christopher Nolan (yeah all 4.5 of 'em), early Tarantino, most Spielberg, all Scorcese, Robert Altman, some Tony Scott, most Ridley Scott, early James Cameron, some Tim Burton, Francis Coppola, Sophie Coppola (mostly her screenwriting though), Eastwood's stuff, on that note Sergio Leone's too, Romero, Spike Lee joints, Spike Jonze joints, everything Soderbergh has done, a lot more I'm not going to list.

Butterfield, Clapton, Simon + Garfunkel, Hendrix, Floyd, The Who, Zeppelin, Stones, Beatles, STP, Pearl Jam, Korn, System of a Down, Rage, Jay-Z, Tenacious D, Flogging Molly, Dropkick Murphys, Nine Inch Nails, Radiohead, Sublime, Sandy Bull, Metallica, Zombie, Kronos Quartet, Chemical Bros.

I am the least picky eater ever. Long as its not some bizarre smelling fish, I'll give it a shot.

coming up with strange and sometimes histrionic new ways for my friends and I to coax people into our bar to spend money and be merry, or something similarly mischevious

you like a tall man with a sense of humor, or have similiar travel oddities you'd care to share.