Hometown
Columbus (THE Columbus).
Book
Favorite – At first I had said A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers. The voice, the tone, everything in line with how I feel I’d write if I were 1) talented enough and 2) disciplined enough. Incredible book. But then I realized I was cheating on my favorite –The Fool’s Progress: An Honest Novel by Edward Abbey. A great guy’s book about the nobility and flaws in all of us (ask me what it’s really about).
A recent favorite – True Grit by Charles Portis.
TV show
Favorite – Homicide: Life on the Streets. Before The Wire, before Tremé, there was Homicide. Too easily forgotten and ignored.
Current – Unforgotten. Gotta love a solid British police procedural.
That was dumb
YouTube has countless videos teaching you how to do things, even how to cut a branch. I consulted none of them before climbing 18 feet into the air to do just that. One stretcher and ambulance trip later, plus 30 days of muscle relaxants and recovery time, I was back to normal (though I felt a bit shorter). Also dumb: I used to think Michael Douglas and Kurt Russell were brothers, even though they didn’t have the same last name.
