Four jobs I’ve had

• Electroplating car bumpers in misty, bubbling vats
• Process server (with—and like this post, because of—Jeremy)
• Assistant shipper, mail-order dog food
• Currently: editor/writer for a reputable publisher, somehow

Four movies I could watch over and over:

• Broadcast News
• Stranger Than Paradise
• The Milagro Beanfield War
• Hellboy

Four TV Shows I Love to Watch

• Whose Line Is It Anyway, even in reruns
• When I don't feel like thinking, almost any sitcom
• King of the Hill
• Awards shows and blooper shows

Four places I’ve been on vacation

• Akeley, Minnesota
• Manhattan
• San Francisco
• Ireland

Four favorite dishes

• Frozen pizza in quantity, which I'm not allowed to have anymore
• Tortilla chips flavored with dusty powders
• Scented jasmine rice cooked with slightly too little water
• Anglicized Chinese food

Four websites I visit regularly

• Google
• Music Thing
• Screenhead
• Boing Boing

Four places I’d rather be

• Anywhere where I'm doing what I want, when I want... such as:
• In a room of one's own—books, trinkets, pluming incense that smells like feet
• Smoking, which I'm not allowed to do anymore
• Eating frozen pizza in quantity

Four books I recommend

• Riddley Walker, Russell Hoban
• Cruddy, Linda Barry
• The Writing Life, Annie Dillard
• A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole

Four bloggers I'm tagging

• King Velour
• I don't really know anybody else—certainly not anybody who reads this. If you're reading this and want me to tag you, send me an email and I will.