Last summer I moved to LA from DC, and the sunny weather and open, friendly faces are freaking me the hell out.

Mostly wrote plays in DC, and am hoping to conquer television in the next few years.

I was also the frontman of a punk band called the Love Shovels for about a week in college.

When I'm into a conversation I gesticulate a lot.

Teaching myself to screenwrite, being a book slut, driving around LA and pretending I'm reenacting a Raymond Chandler novel when in fact I am lost.

Writing. Acting. Directing. Sarcasm. Conversation. Enthusiastic but dangerous dancer. An accredited university once gave me money to talk about Portal 2.

My friend Ian and I devised titles for the adult film version of every single Shakespeare play.

When talking about James Joyce, Tom Waits, or Batman, I do get carried away.

Books/Plays: Complete Tales (HP Lovecraft), Hamlet (William Shakespeare), The Long Goodbye (Raymond Chandler), Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace), The Martian Chronicles (Ray Bradbury), Something Wicked This Way Comes (Ray Bradbury), The Pillowman (Martin McDonagh), The Seafarer (Conor McPherson), The Lost Books of the Odyssey (Zachary Mason)

Comics: Achewood, The Question, Y: The Last Man, Action Philosophers, Hellboy, Scott Pilgrim, Matt Fraction's run on Iron Man, anything by Jack Kirby or Grant Morrison. And Mark Waid is KILLING it on Daredevil right now.

Music: Tom Waits, Jonathan Coulton, Elvis Costello, Johnny Cash, Nick Cave, The Pogues, Talking Heads. There's this great band called Fucked Up that recorded a punk concept album about love, death and workers' rights in a lightbulb factory, and I have decided I love them.

TV: Doctor Who, Community, The Venture Brothers, Justice League Unlimited, Angel, Breaking Bad

Movies: Evil Dead II, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, The Big Lebowski, The Man Who Would Be King, Blade Runner, They Live, Road House, Point Break, Hot Fuzz

Food: I am currently devising excuses to go back to Japan and eat all their food

Things I Can Cook With Pride: Burgers, Deviled Kidneys, and Mac and Cheese Pancakes. I own the Kenny Shopsin cookbook, which is fun because of the inventive and easy recipes and Shopsin's interspersed anecdotes about the assorted reasons he's banned customers for life. Half of my friends are vegetarian now, so I now know how to do portobello burgers and apples and onions.

Favorite Figure From American History Who Tried To Become King of Afghanistan: Josiah Harlan. Wikipedia this man right now. My first full-length play was about this guy and I captured maybe a tenth of the ridiculousness of his career.

1. Books
2. Comics
3. Writing Supplies
4. Corrective Lenses
5. Friends
6. Beers

Time travel.
What plot arcs I'd break out if the editors of DC ever entrusted me with the keys to Superman's monthly comic.

Either crouched in front of my laptop trying to look like I'm writing something monumental, or out with friends trying to find a karaoke machine with the Pogues on it. If you ever want to hear a horrific karaoke version of Metallica's "Whiskey in the Jar" cover, complete with a death metal voice growling "Instrumental break!" during instrumental breaks, I'm your guy.

I creepily sat near the front and took notes on Hans Blix's mannerisms while he gave a disarmament talk, since I was actually playing him in a production of "Stuff Happens" later that week. But then I introduced myself and invited him to the show and it was less creepy. Nice guy.

You do something creative. I'm always looking for someone to peer edit and with whom to geek out over some project or other.

You are not too cool to talk about the deeper social meaning of zombies and the Justice League.