Massachusetts native, brownstone Brooklyn resident. I'm a sucker for pub quiz, bowling league, movie nights, and some other things that aren't group-based novelty activities.

Other biographical nuggets: I'm an unrepentant news junkie and voracious reader, which fits in pretty well with my job. I love words, inside jokes and horrible puns. I think the world is essentially an absurd place, and get along best with people who share that view. I read too much about restaurant openings and closings. I think a good pumpkin ale tastes about three times better than a good regular beer. Oh blimey, it's hard to sum yourself up in this space, isn't it?

Pretty much my ideal setting is a long dinner with good friends, and we're all eating good food (bouillabaisse?) and getting drunk (whiskey-based cocktails?), and there's some kind of vigorous intellectual debate going on (was the kid from "The Sopranos" a bad actor, or was he trying to be annoying on purpose? That kind of thing).

I'm an editor at a large news website, and write on the side.

Trivia, making vodka penne and coq au vin, picking the restaurant. I do a pretty decent Louis Armstrong impression, and type 100 words a minute. Thanks, 7th Grade keyboarding class!

Giant face tattoo

Books: Richard Ford, Graham Greene, Alice in Wonderland, Revolutionary Road, In Cold Blood, many more. Just finished Love in the Time of Cholera. It was ok.

Music: Oh, the usual suspects: Talking Heads, The Mountain Goats, Neutral Milk Hotel, Guided By Voices, The Who, The Wrens, The Kinks, Silver Jews, Radiohead. Also a lot of moody, atmospheric movie soundtracks.

Movies: A Fish Called Wanda, Adaptation, The Big Lebowski, Some Like It Hot, Dazed and Confused, You Can Count On Me, American Psycho, Strangers on a Train

TV: Mad Men, Community, Parks and Recreation, Jeopardy!, the UK Office, The Wire, The X Files, Party Down, Peep Show, Nathan For You, getting into Enlightened post-its cancellation

Podcasts: WTF with Marc Maron and the Slate Culture Gabfest

Food: Strongly in favor of it. A cheeseburger with fries, wienerschnitzel, shrimp quesadillas, naan, pork dumplings, lobster rolls. I really, really like food. Though I seem incapable of getting excited about sushi or Korean barbecue.

A comfortable bathrobe
Irony
The New York Times
A climate with seasons
A good world map
Light cream for my coffee (harder to find than half and half, but well worth the extra effort)

Why Boston's ice cream is so much better than New York's. The history of the world. Sentence structure.

There is no typical Friday night! But, uh, for real: Probably with friends somewhere, trying to avoid a crowded bar scene.

I admit nothing.

You enjoy walking aimlessly. You're an old soul. You'd like to take in a movie at the Nitehawk.