I'm widely considered funny, I'm a big ol' geekboy, I'm absent-minded, and I have been known to get shitfaced playing I Never at a party and sing old Gilbert and Sullivan songs. I am a vast repository of useless knowledge. Sober, I can remember all the words to "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General". This has never been useful for anything. I live in a 1920s bachelor apartment, part of my general 1920s bachelor lifestyle, along with my dress sense and far too much of my slang.

I'm a professional writer and editor, I run less often than I ought to, but I do run, and I'm involved with a few women in various ways. Yes, I'm polyamorous, but I'm no evangelist about it. I take my writing very seriously, and can often be found locked in my room, drinking rum, puffing on my pipe, and trying to headbutt a particular scene or line into submission. I'm also the editor-in-chief of an online progressive men's magazine.

I can make people laugh under most circumstances, I'm a good shot with a pistol, I can write quite well, I usually come up with good toasts, and my spelling is impeccable. The other things I'm good at should probably be discussed privately.

My hat, which is substantially more awesome than me.

Books... geez, I read a lot of comics, my favorites being stuff like PLANETARY and 100 BULLETS, also just lately I'm reading some Patricia Highsmith, some old Fitzgerald, Iain M. Banks... it varies a lot.

Movies, hell, I'm a geek. We all like a lot of the same movies. So yeah, the standard geek list, LORD OF THE RINGS, STAR WARS, etc. Then there's movies I love that the rest of the world dislikes. BRAIN DONORS, LEAP OF FAITH, MR. SATURDAY NIGHT, a few like that. And, then I love a lot of classics. I mean, if you don't like CASABLANCA, you're just wrong and there's nothing to be done about it.

My taste in music... oy. Okay, flicking randomly through my MP3 playlist, we've got Kool Moe Dee, the Pogues, South Park soundtrack, Sweeney Todd soundtrack, Air Supply, Bob Dylan, Billy Joel, the Arrogant Worms, the Monkees, the Offspring, Bruce Springsteen, Melissa Etheridge, more Pogues, Barenaked Ladies... okay, bored with doing this now.

Foods, gimme Thai. Panang curry beef all the way. Also the Special Day Shrimp at the Tabor Hill Cafe. So addicted to that dish.

I've had various things on this list over the years, but sooner or later I find myself doing without all of them at one time or another. Alas.

Politics, writing, random trivia, history, literature, kinky sex...

I don't really have much in the dataset for "typical" Friday nights. There's often booze, there are often friends, there are often movies, there is often solitude... Maybe a Venn diagram would help me here.

My approach to sex starts with kinky and wanders occasionally into completely debauched.

You want to.