age: 37 (Dec 31, 1974)
MEMBER SINCE: July 2004
occupation: All of the above
into: Art, business, philosophy, and plans for world domination
crush: Kiki of Paris
heroes: Calder, Warhol & Joe Campbell
most humbling moment: That's like asking a fish what got him most wet
makes me happy: A challenge.
makes me sad: Constantly having to explain why i don't drink and that being straightedge doesn't mean I'm a vegan who doesn't like girls.
gets me hot: Confidence
fantasy: Some fine dining and a world class opera complimented with a world class hardcore show afterwards and wild pagan sex til dawn.
i lost my virginity: On Prom night
body mods: None
Filling a blank calendar
I have a tradition with my parents that we go to the same Japanese steakhouse for my birthday each year. But my birthday is December 31st, so it didn't take long as an adult to have the tradition displaced to December 30th or the 29th or whenever was convenient for all involved. For a while it was December 30th which must've been an anniversary for a couple old high school friends because a few years in a row I ran in to them at the restaurant and we would catch up. By the time I ran in to them on December 30, 1997 I had lived in LA for a year. I had done an internship with a major movie producer, worked on a couple other films, spent some time as a PA at a studio and been promoted to start a new job working for the writers of The Simpsons when I got back to LA in January.
And that happened. And while I was working there I got an offer from an old buddy-- a challenge, really, to write a book about yo-yoing. I worked at a specialty toy store in college, playing with yoyos and now things were picking up in the yoyo world. They were picking up enough that not only could a book get published but companies were looking for guys to be demonstrators. When Duncan Yo-yos stopped doing their regular school-yard promotions in the mid-70s the youngest guys were 20-something. So now 25 years later the youngest guys who could do yoyo tricks were 50-something. Fifty-something guys are a hard sell to 12-year-old boys. So being able to do yoyo tricks, rent a car and cash a check meant you got a job. It seemed like a good way to add some chapters to my autobiography so on the advice of one of the producers at the Simpsons I took the job. I traveled around and even got as far as Paris before, again I was back in Florida with the parents for the holidays and my tradition of the birthday meal at the same Japanese Steakhouse.
I don't know if I actually saw my friends Chris and Meredith on December 30, 1998 or if I was just laughing to myself on December...
I have a tradition with my parents that we go to the same Japanese steakhouse for my birthday each year. But my birthday is December 31st, so it didn't take long as an adult to have the tradition displaced to December 30th or the 29th or whenever was convenient for all involved. For a while it was December 30th which must've been an anniversary for a couple old high school friends because a few years in a row I ran in to them at the restaurant and we would catch up. By the time I ran in to them on December 30, 1997 I had lived in LA for a year. I had done an internship with a major movie producer, worked on a couple other films, spent some time as a PA at a studio and been promoted to start a new job working for the writers of The Simpsons when I got back to LA in January.
And that happened. And while I was working there I got an offer from an old buddy-- a challenge, really, to write a book about yo-yoing. I worked at a specialty toy store in college, playing with yoyos and now things were picking up in the yoyo world. They were picking up enough that not only could a book get published but companies were looking for guys to be demonstrators. When Duncan Yo-yos stopped doing their regular school-yard promotions in the mid-70s the youngest guys were 20-something. So now 25 years later the youngest guys who could do yoyo tricks were 50-something. Fifty-something guys are a hard sell to 12-year-old boys. So being able to do yoyo tricks, rent a car and cash a check meant you got a job. It seemed like a good way to add some chapters to my autobiography so on the advice of one of the producers at the Simpsons I took the job. I traveled around and even got as far as Paris before, again I was back in Florida with the parents for the holidays and my tradition of the birthday meal at the same Japanese Steakhouse.
I don't know if I actually saw my friends Chris and Meredith on December 30, 1998 or if I was just laughing to myself on December...












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