I am a comedy writer by trade and, ironically, it's something I take very seriously. I've spent a lot of time focusing on my career but now I'm looking to incorporate more relationshipy-type stuff into my life. Sounds romantic, doesn't it!

I am a screenwriter. No, for real. I'm not one of those people who say they're a screenwriter but really they work in a coffee place or something (anymore).

Actually, I haven't worked at the coffee place for a very long time. I just like that joke.

I'm a big fan of bar trivia. The Wall Street Journal just did a story about it and my team was interviewed. I may or may not have been quoted ;)

Internet dating profiles! Okay, not really...

I am good at making people laugh, but I'm expanding my repertoire to include "good listener" and "emotionally available" as well.

I was very pleased with myself for using the word "repertoire" just then, but in the interest of full disclosure, I found it surprisingly difficult to spell. So I guess I'm not as good at spelling as I thought I was.

Upon meeting me people always tell me I look like Paul Rudd. He's cute, right? Remember Clueless? You loved him in that!

Now we're talking! My Top 5 favorite films are:

1) Annie Hall
2) The Godfather
3) Duck Soup
4) Dr. Strangelove
5) Ferris Bueller's Day Off

I tell people my favorite book is Catch-22, but really it's still my favorite book from childhood, which is Maniac Magee.

My favorite television program of all time is The West Wing. I desperately wanted Bartlet4America to be my username, but it was taken! I was devastated...

I enjoy a lot of different types of music, but my favorite band is hands down The Magnetic Fields.

I also enjoy many different types of food, but I especially enjoy French cuisine. FYI, my family has a place in the south of France. No big deal. Just putting it out there.

Hmm. NEVER is a long time, but I've loved movies, particularly comedies, my whole life. So that's one.

Writing can be a very hard job at times and it often affects my mood if it's not going well, but, while I do enjoy taking some time off after completing a project, it's usually not more than a couple of weeks. I don't like to go too long without writing.

I really enjoy French food, but I would be chagrined if I learned I could never have BBQ ribs again.

I've always said I would move to LA for work if it was absolutely necessary, and I would, but always with the intention of coming back to New York City. I like Chicago, I like San Francisco, Paris, Barcelona, and London, but the reason so many stories are set in New York is the same reason it's great to live here: if you're walking down the street and you happen to turn a corner, you could see absolutely anything. You won't know until you're there. It's magical.

Rogaine. "It's preventative!"

Republicans. Oh, I'm sorry. I thought this was a list of things I COULD do without.

Movies movies movies. Popular culture. Politics.

"I'm so sick of Congress I could vomit." - Josh Lyman. Just to be perfectly clear, I spend a lot of time thinking that thought and not just thinking about that quote for its own sake.

Out at the bar with friends, naturally!

My friends make fun of me for being very 90's. I wear a watch, I have an AOL account, and I go to Blockbuster.

Update: I no longer wear a watch and the last Blockbuster that I know of closed. So it seems I am slowly being dragged, kicking and screaming, toward this century.

This year for Halloween you want to go as the Dread Pirate Roberts and Buttercup. We can discuss who gets to be who later.

You find me as amusing as I find myself.