Vintonville - The life and times of a guy, his Lady-Friend, a Little Dude and a Little Sis.

Blog-Tagging, bless its heart, is the bane of the blog world. And I say that only because I’m a guy and it totally feels like a girl thing to do– like filling out and forwarding crazy emails where you answer all these questions and your wildest dreams will materialize ala Kelly LeBrock in Weird Science. The Blog-Tag idea is: someone writes 5-6 things about themselves not many people know, then lists about the same amount of people who must next do the same thing, ad infinitum.

I’m feeling particularly ego-centric today, and having received a challenge to do it, by crikey– I’m gonna. All self-respect and shame aside. After all, if I feel ashamed later I can always delete the post.

1. Over 2006-2007 I wrote for the oft-offensive but always relevant and insightful movie news website CHUD. My claim to fame? I was read by Shia Lebouf, Will Ferrell and John Favreau (Director of Iron Man, Zathura and Elf). Sadly, that torrid love affair ended after about a year, seeing as how I was putting in a lot of time and it didn’t pay, which was making my real, paying job jealous. And angry.

2. I once put a fearsome block on gold medalist Ryan Millar in a two on two grass volleyball tournament. We lost, but I’m tellin’ ya, I got a clean block on and stuffed one of the best volleyball players in the world.

3. I love kids. Love ‘em.  I’m always getting grief from ditching the “adult” conversations to hang out with the kids at family functions, but running around outside, playing hide and seek and having fun with a no preconceptions crowd is far better than pretending I give a crap about golf, the latest gossip or trying to invent a conversation about either.

4. If serving paid enough to make a real living, I’d do it until I was soaking my teeth in a cup on the nightstand. There’s nothing better than making people laugh/smile, exceeding expectations and getting paid like a whore to do it.

5. My childhood was terrorized by two cartoon characters: the Rankin/Bass Gollum and Secret of Nimh’s Jenner. I still keep the lights on and and consciously have to keep my bladder in check when I’m watching either of them.

6. I have 3 nipples. Ok, not really. But imagine if I did! It’d be like the next step in human evolution or something. Honestly, I’m having a hard time coming up with 6. I guess it’s that I was roughed up and made fun of quite a bit throughout my illustrious K-12 career. My senior yearbook has 3 signatures in it and, incidentally, not one says, “Stay cool”. Not even my girlfriend signed it. But don’t cry for me, Argentina. I was high fivin’ dudes and rolodexin’ ladies when it mattered: College.

So there you have it. Challenge accepted and completed. Now, back to the regularly scheduled posting.

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