Something like Tim Heidecker's character in The Comedy, but not such an asshole. And I look more like Eric. Occasionally more The Dude, but mixed in with Bowfinger. Or maybe sometimes like Brian Posehn's character on The Sarah Silverman Program, but smaller and with more hair. Sometimes more Daria, sometimes more Lisa Simpson, but always a lot of Philip J Fry. Sometimes imagining myself as the guy from Band of Outsiders, but not nearly so cool. Consciously working toward Ted Danson's character in Bored to Death, if I should be so lucky. Striving for the accidental charisma of Roy on IT Crowd, but in the end often landing squarely on David Brent.

So I had an almost 6-figure job as a computer programmer for a few years, then I quit one day to be a comedy writer and filmmaker. Since then I've been way happier and way poorer. I'm working in tv now in a rather menial tv position at the moment, but I just had a show idea optioned so that's something that happened.

I cook a lot. Last year I built a garden and a compost bin. I have a pilot's license but it's out of date. I was in Mensa for a month. I have a really good science podcast.

I put a lot of stock in match percentage.

Answering this question.

I have electroplasma whips for hands like Mickey Roarke does.

pynchon, barthelme, murakami, dostoevsky, vonnegut, borges, antrim, atwood, umberto eco, salman rushdie, nickolson baker, david foster wallace, sedaris, john kennedy toole, garcia-marquez, harry potter, thom hartmann

Eternal Sunshine, Adaptation, Shaun of the Dead, Children of Men, Fear and Loathing, Rushmore, The Big Lebowski, Bridesmaids, Up, Monsters Inc, The Iron Giant, Let the Right One In, Slumdog, Being John Malcovich, The Baxter, Deconstructing Harry, Hot Fuzz, Barton Fink, In the mood for love, Human Nature, V for Vendetta, You and me and everyone we know, The Host, Bowfinger, Dr Strangelove, Annie Hall, Best in Show, Ghost Dog, Spinal Tap, The Life of Brian, LA Story, Kung Fu Panda, Heartbeeps......coen bros, wes anderson, wong kar-wai, jean-pierre jeunet, errol morris, godard, jim jarmusch, truffaut, fellini, woody allen, charlie kaufman, michel gondry, sofia coppola, miranda july, alfonso cuarón, guillermo del toro, pedro almodóvar, ross mcelwee, hitchcock, kubrick, kurasawa, herzog

Louie, Breaking Bad, Stella, 30 rock, Community, Bored to Death, Todd Margaret, Michael & Michael Have Issues, Arrested Development, The State, The Simpsons, Futurama, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Dr Katz, [adult swim], The IT Crowd, It's Always Sunny, The Life and Times of Tim, Buffy, Firefly, Flight of the Conchords, Mythbusters, Nova, The Wire

pavement, modest mouse, pixies, flaming lips, yo la tengo, sonic youth, frank black, silver jews, ween, the liars, neutral milk hotel super furry animals, animal collective, panda bear, grizzly bear, tallest man on earth, japandroids, conor oberst, will oldham, against me!, comets on fire, grandaddy, deerhoof, the idaho falls, lambchop, mercury rev, we can cut you, hello lovers, olivia tremor control, the boredoms, brainiac, blumfeld, les savy fav, elf power, weezer, luna, le tigre, vic chesnutt, whiskeytown, wilco, beck, j. mascis, ugly cassanova

Podcasts?: Nerd Poker, WTF, Doug Loved Movies, Comedy Bang Bang, Startalk, Radiolab, Nerdist Writers Panel, Mike and Tom Eat Snacks, Judge John Hodgman, How did this get made, Bullseye, Duncan trussell, the science jerks

sushi, ethiopian, indian, thai, pho, ramen, chinese, italian, mexican, bbq, ice cream, brunch, coffee, iced tea, scotch

my first word was cookie and it's still one of my favorites

A fleet of helicopters, immortality, the meaning of life, a time machine, a portal into the multiverse, weird bits of string

String theory, the singularity, story structure, which words are funnier that which other words, why is everybody so angry all the time. That is all.

Somewhere pondering the conundrum that to claim to not have typical Friday nights is by far the most typical way to answer this question and therefore those who claim to have the most typical habits are by all accounts the most atypical. To this end I try to do the exact same thing every Friday night, timed down to the minute, in order to maximize my iconoclasty.

I am a deposed Nigerian prince.

You're a super-genius comedy nerd or something.

I don't send form letters. I only write if I feel like I have something interesting to say, and only to those I feel I might have a connection with. If I looked at your profile and didn't write, it might just be that I couldn't think of anything clever at the time. Feel free to break the ice. I'm nice.