There's a meme wandering around Facebook, and seeing I did it there, I may as well do it here too coz, frankly, I really never get tired of revealing stuff about myself. So:
Rules: Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it's because I want to know more about you. (Of course, I'm not going to tag anybody, but you should. You definitely should)
1. I can raise both eyebrows independently
2. I can form my bottom lip into the shape of two upward-pointing tusks, Gamorrhean Guard style, by biting down on the middle portion and pushing the rest up.
3. I spent three years in the early 90s working as a stand-up comedian. Badly.
4. I once smacked Billy Bob Thornton in the face with a cafe door.
5. I was once taken into police custody whilst wearing an eight-foot high pink rabbit suit and carrying a three foot long double-ended dildo along a public thoroughfare.
6. The second and third toes on both my feet are webbed.
7. I have an extra earlobe.
8. I once at 2 kilograms of jelly beans in one sitting. Since that day, I can't bear the smell or taste of them.
9. I really only became serious about writing after deciding I would never be good enough to make a living as a cartoonist. I still wish I was better.
10. I completed one semester of a graphic design diploma, during which time I met my first wife, and decided I'd rather spend the time with her.
11. I love fish but hate seafood.
12. I am estranged from my only sibling because of the way he treats his children and ex-wife.
13. I have climbed the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
14. I met my beautiful wife Lyn at a science fiction convention. I married her at one, too.
15. I am, and have been since I was a child, a full-blooded atheist. I genuinely cannot understand how anyone can believe in something as silly and superstitious as a giant, remote deity that brings everything into existence and then sets down rules by which any individual has to run their lives. I am also married to one of Jehovah's Witnesses. So there's *one* interesting conversation we can have :)
16. I receive regular chiropractic adjustment to treat a 17 degree kink in my spine between my shoulder blades, which I suffered in a car crash in 2001. After my first adjustment I regained 1 1/2 centimetres in height.
17. I have arm-wrestled Sean Astin, and lost 3-0.
18. I am a keen follower of Nottingham Forest football club and am listed as a 'notable supporter': http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Nottingham-Forest-FC#Notable_supporters
19. My ambition is to make a living from my writing, in order that I can spend more time with my wife and kids, and work on developing myself as a visual artist-- I want to achieve success in multiple artistic disciplines, a la David Bowie or Spike Milligan. I'm desperate to do this before I turn 45. That gives me seven years.
20. I have visited 5 of Australia's states (including the one in which I live), and have driven other people's cars in 4 of them.
21. I am a big fan of Boris Karloff, and have passed this down to my oldest son. I even made him a Karloff tee-shirt to wear to a con once. What's more, he wore it! I have also managed to inflict both my teenage boys with my deep love of pre-WWII horror movies.
22. As a child, I had several teeth removed because my mouth was too small. That is the only time I have had that accusation levelled at me.
23. I have shot one kangaroo; caught two fish; hugged one tiger; kissed one boa constrictor; eaten two grasshoppers; and ridden three elephants, four camels, two horses, and a donkey. Which was pregnant.
24. My favourite flavoured milk is Brownes Egg Nog Chill. My favourite ice cream is Memphis Meltdown Gooey Raspberry. I am having one of each this afternoon in an attempt to flavour my way through the ridiculous heat of the day.
25. I can confidently lay claim to being the 2nd most northerly-living speculative fiction writer in the Perth metropolitan area, and I'm only 2nd because my beautiful wife writes speculative fiction and sleeps on the north side of the bed.
The meme is so tempting to do, but I must resist because I have other things to blog about ;)
ReplyDeleteOne random fact is that we've both met our partners at cons, except mine was a Marxist con, lol.
See, that's a cool factoid! Now you only need 24 more... :)
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