January 20, 2009...4:47 am

7 Things You Never Knew About Me

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I’ve been tagged to participate in a meme by my friend Carla and because she is one of my favorite people in the world I am playing along.  The theme is seven things you don’t know about me and this is tough for me because after five years of blogging there aren’t many things I haven’t told you, but I’ll give it my best.

Here are the rules of this meme:

  • Link to your original tagger(s) and list these rules in your post.
  • Share seven facts about yourself in the post.
  • Tag seven people at the end of your post by leaving their names and the links to their blogs.
  • Let them know they’ve been tagged.
Before I get started, you can find Carla’s answers here.
Okay, here we go:
  1. You already know I’m afraid of mice but did you know I’m also afraid to get on a boat?  It’s true, I will not get into a boat unless it’s big enough to have a helicopter I can escape in.  This pretty much means I can only board a cruise ship at this point. I recently discovered that escape helicopters are not standard equipment so it looks like I’ll be staying on land.
  2. Back in the mid 90′s I wrote for a NY based magazine that was a blatant rip off of The Onion.  Back then The Onion was still largely a regional publication but I had read it and I knew that I was writing for a pale imitation.  Since I was covering music for the entertainment section I stuck with it for the experience and the free stuff.  It lasted about 8 issues.  A few years ago I found a copy in a friend’s basement and was not impressed with my work.
  3. I was not a dog person until I moved to Los Angeles and into an apartment that came with a dog.
  4. My wife and I have a running dispute over me appearing on Oprah.  My wife  believes that if I published a book I would make a great Oprah guest.  Everyone should have a significant other as supportive as my wife but every time she tells me to finish my book and go on Oprah I tell her I’d never do it-appear on Oprah I mean (I am trying to write the book though).  I suppose we can shelve this argument until I finally publish something.
  5. My middle initial is K. which does not stand for kidney or krazy.  The K does stand for Kenneth in honor of an uncle I only vaguely remember.  If I was given this name in hopes he’d leave us his estate, the plan failed as he finished the entire bottle.
  6. Despite living two hours from the border I have never taken a trip to Mexico.
  7. If I was selecting my last meal today it would be the carnitas from Pueblo Viejo in Los Angeles.
That’s my seven things, I hope you learned something new about me.
Now for the tagging:
AJ in Nashville
Daily Piglet
Discotrash
Jessica Gottlieb
Make Mine Mike
Swirly Girl
Untitled Story of my Life

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