I graduated from Brown in 2010; I've been working ever since in television news. I have a love/hate relationship with the industry. Sometimes I think Hunter S. Thompson said it best: "The television business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also the negative side."

Being a slave to the lamestream media

-Jazz drumming
-Being nocturnal (I used to work the graveyard shift on a morning news program)

It would take me a dozen lifetimes to finish all the books I want to read. Some of my favorites include: Catch 22, The Things They Carried, Nine Stories, White Noise, Empire Falls, Fun Home, Maus, The Plot Against America, Cat's Cradle, Guns Germs & Steel, A Hope in the Unseen, Me Talk Pretty Pretty One Day, Kitchen Confidential

Movies: The Shawshank Redemption, The Godfather, Mystic River, Network, Dr. Strangelove, The Usual Suspects

Shows: Breaking Bad, Mad Men, 30 Rock, Community, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Daily Show, Morning Joe, 60 Minutes, Sunday Morning

Music: HUGE range - everything from jazz (Sonny Rollins, Pat Metheny, Michael Brecker), to funk (Soulive, Tower of Power, Galactic), to singer-songwriters (Tracy Chapman, Dan Bern, Ray LaMontagne), to alt-rock (Pearl Jam, Florence and the Machine, The Black Keys).

1. Craft Beer
2. Alliteration
3. NPR
4. Dark Chocolate
5. Witty Banter
6. My dignity

-The rationale behind the tooth-fairy's business model.
-Which missing, adorable white girl is going to dominate this week's news cycle

Out at a craft beer bar, drinking the best Belgian Sour Ale I can find.

I once interned at one of those infamous, super trashy daytime talk shows (one critic called it "the worst thing on television - period."). One show we did featured a man who claimed that he was vampire. He was the most normal guest we ever had...

-You're able to find that missing, adorable white girl (and I can book you for the exclusive interview)
-You can appreciate someone with an absurd sense of humor...or better yet, have one yourself