I'm a fun-loving, easy-going person, but my biggest turn-off is people who are bored, jaded and/or spoiled...In other words, people who can not trip over the small things in life (which always add up to the bigger picture) are too condescending for me. Really, all we have in life are small moments - we live in the present-- the past and the future do not exist - and if you can't enjoy the moment, you're not enjoying life. My work as a writer and cartoonist is both social and solitary. There's no way to really get the work done but alone. Conversely, I attend functions all the time for work, and that's my chance to socialize. By nature, I love storytelling and learning about people and places, art, culture, so I have a curious mind and the greatest adventure in life, as the late, great Huell Howser taught us, is really right in our own backyard (and occasionally, on the front lawn...). I love living in Los Angeles and greater California. I'm less excited about Orange County, which I got to know very well because that's where my ex-girlfriend lives, but with the right person, any place is worth exploring. That was a lesson I don't care to repeat, by the way, the "long distance" relationship (and yes, I consider an hour and change away from home a long distance relationship - believe me, it gets complicated to date someone that far away). Anyway, if you're local enough and are curious enough to reach out to me, I welcome all questions, so feel free to ask if I haven't scratched your itch.

Writer and cartoonist.

Writing, cartooning (comic books, not animation)....and you know what...

My car and my bank account....No, I would say my eyes, hair and smile, and my sense of humor (not that you'd know that from this essay answer).

Too mind-bogglinglyvendless to answer in full however in general, I love rap (not the POWER 106 crowd but the KDAY rotation) especially Run-DMC, Beastie Boys, early LL Cool J, Eazy-E & NWA, Wu-Tang Clan, Redman/Method Man, DMX. Also love some metal ~ early Metallica and Slayer, AC/DC, GNR~ hybrid groups like early Chili Peppers and Fishbone, Muse....cowboy singers Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Wilco, Weezer...and the first album I ever bought was the Clash's "Combat Rock" so the Clash remain my all-time favorite rock group. Also love fellow punk band the Sex Pistols. Thelonious Monk on the jazz side, on and on!

MOVIES: too endless to list but my favorite is '60s/'70s Hollywood ~ Sam Peckinpah, Hal Ashby, Blake Edwards, Mel Brooks, Gene Wilder, etc. More recently, Sam Raimi, Wes Anderson, Alexander Payne, etc. I love comedies the most, senseless horror/violent films least. I'm not a big Tarantino fan....until you get to "inglorious bastards," which is an instant classic. I was very disappointed in the recent crop of superhero flicks, I'd say the great ones for me have been the first Sam Raimi "Spider-Man," 2008's "The Dark Knight," "X-Men:First Class," the Ed Norton "Incredible Hulk," maybe "Thor," the rest I hated or have serious issues with...
Some of my favorite comedies of recent years include "Role Models," "Observe & Report," "I Love You, Man," "Pineapple Express," and I just saw/enjoyed "That's My Boy," the funniest, wackiest Adam Sandler comedy since "The Waterboy!"
Further back, favorite comedies include the first "Bill & Ted," "Honeymoon in Vegas," "Guarding Tess," and "Sideways."

TV: I don't watch a whole lot of it these days outside of some CNN and PBS, and I usually catch up with shows on DVD. Recent shows I've enjoyed: I think "Eastbound & Down" is the funniest comedy since "Curb," maybe even since "Taxi!" the first season of "Louie" was funny, cartoons-wise "Black Dynamite." Dramas: "The Wire," "Breaking Bad."

On a trashy level, I am very much enjoying "Arrow," which is loosely based on the DC Comics character "The Green Arrow." If you can get over the typical CW conceit that every character looks like a fashion plate and all bald people are villains, this is a fun show....Besides, where else on network TV can kids tune in at 8 pm to see a guy murder people with arrows on a weekly basis?

BOOKS: Too many to get into but my favorite authors include John Fante, James M. Cain, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Budd Schulberg, Donald Westlake/Richard Stark (the Parker series), Ayn Rand, Edgar Rice Burroughs, H.G. Wells, Woody Allen, Jack Douglas.

Limbs.

My work, which I love. And meeting the right woman, wondering if she is you....or your best friend! (jk)

Either out and about....or home alone. I'm a homebody at my core but I love to socialize when I'm in that mode, which can be frequent as my work requires me to attend events and be social. Ain't that wild?

I'm not a big fan of long, long plane rides and so I haven't traveled out of the country in about a decade out of sheer dread of travel tedium. But I've traveled abroad all my life and eventually I'll go visit somewhere overseas (where I have lots of family). And I love traveling up and down California and to different states. Also, there is a line I will not cross, but behind that line, I'm very sexually adventurous.

You're fun, funny, and you like funny and to have fun.