I'm some combination of smart and ass (I'd like to think 73% smart, 27% ass, plus or minus 3%) and/or a hillbilly wild child that was shined up real nice in some fine liberal arts college back East.

Taking care of business, nearly every other day: I do have a jobby job, aspirations, and am stricken with the occassional bout of wanderlust (details TK).

Modesty sometimes.

I have a firm handshake and almost never stink.

The Imperfectionists and Freedom were my favorite books last year. Some writers I like(d) in general are John Barth, Donald Barthelme, Raymond Carver, Coetzee, Denis Johnson, and Nabokov. I have a portrait of Dostoevsky tattooed on my arm (The Idiot's probably my favorite of his), I'm pretty sure it meant something at the time, but now it's really just a tattoo of an old guy on my arm.

I'm a sucker for sappy sports movies and "gritty" blue-collar dramas. I also watch a lot of documentaries and something with subtitles on occasion.

I grew up on hip-hop and can recite Big Daddy Kane and Rakim lines ad nauseum. Atmosphere's a huge guilty pleasure of mine and I'd probably be really appreciative, if you could quote me a Slug line or two? Hello ma'am...

I like to eat, favorites include, but not limited to: oysters, coffee, Carolina BBQ, cheeseburgers with a bunch of stuff on them, foie, really any kind of seafood, Nutella, Fage, Nutella & Fage, white peaches, and a good bourbon.

I learned from Robert De Niro in Heat, that you have to be prepared to drop everything in 30 seconds flat; I'm not going to tell you what I learned from Robert De Niro in Meet the Fockers.

Various existential crises, normal psychology, and what form of exercise seems least invasive.

... with friends gathered around some kind of art, live music, or card game.

I already said I wasn't going to tell you what I learned from Robert De Niro in Meet the Fockers.

... you want to.