So I made a little joke in a comment to that hip marketing guy David Alston and whammo – he tags me with a meme.  Sheesh.

So here it is.  Here are seven things about me that you probably don’t know:

1. My grandfather, father, and I all had the same middle name.  Wanting to break the vicious naming cycle, we made that name my son’s first name.  Oh, and you can spell words from the initials of all four of our names:  had, pad, mad, add.
2. I read a book a day when I was in sixth grade.  I’ve slowed down a bit since then.
3. I have started drafts for one novel, one graphic novel, and two TV series proposals.  Have I finished them?  No.  But I do think of them with love and affection every now and then.  Or wistfulness.
4. I have never broken a bone, but I’ve lost eight teeth.  No false teeth though.
5. I’m not a teetotaller, but I rarely drink alcoholic beverages.
6. OK, here’s an embarrassing one:  when my son was about a year old I was working on a project in the US and I spent a lot of time traveling (not time traveling – time on the road).  At some point I purchased Shangri-La Dee-Da by Stone Temple Pilots and one of the songs off that CD, A Song For Sleeping, still makes me weep, even to this day, as it did on a drive in wintery Wisconsin that year.  It’s embarrassing, I really don’t like trying it out to see if it still happens.
7. I own over 2000 comic books.  I made one of the boxes that I store some of them in when I was in shop class in 8th grade and it still works wonderfully.  I have at least one comic book that’s older than David Alston.

And that’s the end.  Of the meme.

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