Curiosity and openness are the two bedrocks of interesting people, and I try to keep these in mind everyday...

After much poking and prodding from a top cadre of scientists, my conversational interests can be broken down as follows: one-half philosophical, one-third emotional, one-quarter intellectual, one-fifth comical, one-sixth absurdist, one-seventh athletic, one-eighth pop cultural, and one-ninth about where we're going to eat.

Yes, that's well over one-hundred percent. No wonder I get so many headaches.

My theme: to have great fun figuring out everything I can about life.

My avocation: a fictionist

My vocation: a consultant

I can fall asleep everywhere at any time in any company with any noise, and I can wake up anytime anyone calls my name without them otherwise having any idea I was sleeping.

This is the most important skill I've ever acquired.

My boyish good looks and rapier-like wit. Or my humility.

When you write that you "used to read a lot but not anymore," it makes me sad inside. And sad outside.

I read my share of books, I read my share of magazines.

Literary fiction, criticism, psychology, social , such and things.

Jonathan Franzen, David Foster Wallace, Malcolm Gladwell, Chris Ware, Stephen King, Joseph Campbell, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dave Eggers, Marilynne Robinson, Hunter S. Thompson, Tucker Max

My magazine subscriptions: n+1, The New Yorker, The Week, Baseball America, The Believer, McSweeney's, Zoetrope, The New York Times Books Review.

These are the only movies I've ever seen in my life -

12 Monkeys, 40-Year-Old Virgin, American Beauty, Anchorman, Billy Madison, Blade Runner, Bottle Rocket, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Brokeback Mountain, Charade, Citizen Kane, Dark City, Death Proof, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Dr. Strangelove, Erin Brockovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, F is for Fake, Fight Club, Following, The Fountain, Gangs of New York, Garden State, GoodFellas, The House of Yes, Insomnia, L.A. Confidential, Memento, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Office Space, Primer, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, Saving Private Ryan, The Shawshank Redemption, The Sixth Sense, The Spanish Prisoner, Synecdoche, New York, Taxi Driver, Vanilla Sky

These are television shows: Six Feet Under, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, John From Cincinnati, The Office, The Shield, Entourage, Home Movies, Arrested Development.

These are a few bands I've heard The Shins, Wilco, The Smashing Pumpkins, Liz Phair, Soul Coughing / Mike Doughty, Silversun Pickups, The Killers, Editors, Phoenix, Crowded House, Idlewild, Veruca Salt, The Hopefuls, Semisonic, Fleming and John, Crowded House, Matt Pond PA

My memories, my goals, my laughter, my curiosity, my compassion, my perspective.

Is it possible to answer this question without sounding either materialistic or cloying? I vote no.

The two things all street philosophers think about: how do we come to terms with our own eventual death, and should I buy that doughnut.

And you, of course. You.

keeping my Friday night from being typical.

I've seen both Mamma Mia and Sex and the City in movie form. By my own volition.

- you consider it worthwhile to meet new people, whether it's easy or hard for you to do.

There's probably something interesting about you. Let me know what it is.

Note: To already answer what has been the most oft-asked question of me: Yes, yes I am awesome.