This is about a week late, owing to the holidays. Thanks to those who encouraged me to put it up, late and everything...

1. I once wore a Macaroni and Cheese costume for charity at a major league baseball game. It lasted five minutes before I took it off. Then I set myself on fire.

2. I had a 2,000 lb. bomb dropped on Al Qaeda in January 2002 that had my name written on it. It was satellite guided, so I know it hit the target. I'd feel bad if it killed someone's dog, but that's pretty much it.

3. I was once on a Perry Como TV special, "Perry Como's Spring in San Francisco". I got cut out of the scene, which was a relief, because being 10 and seeing myself on national television, which I thought reserved for people like John Davidson, would have been overwhelming.

4. I'm a fairly tolerant guy. I recently hosted a dinner party and one guest started railing against men in a way identical to Mel Gibson's famous drunken rant--except she was sober. I smiled and didn't throw her out.

5. I did poorly on my SATs. I just didn't care.

 6. I've had 14 Macs in 20 years. The only real religion that I get is Macintosh. When Apple goes out of business, I'll going to the county landfill and digging myself out an IBM Selectric III.

7. I once saw a UFO. It looked like a cue ball bouncing around a pool table, and it was most certainly not Venus or swamp gas.

8. I once spent five years researching the whole Bigfoot thing. I'm not sure I'd do it again.

I know what you're thinking, and the answer is, yes.

9. I don't know how to play basketball, football, soccer, or hockey, which might make me the unicorn of straight men.

10. I used to work in the arms and armor business, and have handled almost every gun ever made.

11. I once worked in a fortune cookie factory, but was not compelled to send "Help I'm trapped in a Chinese fortune cookie factory" fortunes. Several other people did--those that couldn't bring themselves to sleep their way out.

12. I sat in the back of the class in high school and college and kept my mouth shut. I was forming an opinion of the world and had nothing to offer anyone. I suspect a lot of bloggers sat in the back of class.

13. I'm slightly impatient with the Baby Boomer generation.

14. I'm becoming a huge softie. I recently quit fishing. My meat consumption is down 50% over the past three years. I volunteer with a local wildlife rescue.

15. I decided to try writing as a career again after my wife noted that the only time I ever get excited about doing anything for a living is when I talk about being a writer.

16. I consider art to be in the eye of the creator. I'll look at anything at least once, though I reserve the right to punch the artist afterward.

17. I am a native San Franciscan. Please stop sending your crazy, flaky relatives, it got old in 1968. "I just got here and have some great ideas on changing the world." Please--we've heard it ten million times. Thanks.

18. I read LOLcats every day. Lolcats is probably the most significant contribution to pop culture since hip hop. 

19. I see a movie every Wednesday with my male friends. This is our eleventh year. It's good to have traditions, but not so good when only Brian DePalma movies are playing.

20. I've written a few screenplays and think I'm quite good at it, but have given up on breaking into Hollywood.

21. I still play video games on my computer. Currently, I'm killing a lot of zombies in Left 4 Dead. 

22. I'm disinterested in recreational drugs and intend to market my genes when family gene modification becomes possible. I watch enough A&E to know it'll make me rich.

23.  Academically, I was #306 out of 611 in my high school. I just didn't care. 

 24. I'm ashamed of the '80s. 

 25. I went to Japan for the first time in March. Tokyo was like an enormous bowl of brightly colored, delicious candy that I could not stop eating. I'm considering going back to write about experiencing the country. Literary agents, call now.