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FOOD
Favorite Cuisines: Italian, German, Korean
Favorite Dishes: waffles, crab, cioppino, rare steak, raw beef, clam chowder, hot soup in general, beets, stuffed artichokes, prawn cocktail, crusty bread, peas, potato-ish things, breakfast cereal esp. Grape Nuts
Favorite Desserts: really good pie, especially peach and lemon meringue, tapioca pudding, fresh doughnuts
Favorite Drinks: ice cold water, black coffee, hot tea, iced tea, martini, sidecar, Jameson & ginger ale, aviaton
Favorite Junk Foods: Oreo cookies, but only the cookie part
Best meal ever: My Mom’s cooking tops the list, but the best meal I ever had in a restaurant was at Commander’s Palace in New Orleans
My Original Recipes: this thing I make with Brussels Sprouts and bacon and eggs
Favorite Restaurants: Mario’s La Fiesta (r.i.p.), Arinell Pizza, Truly Mediterranean, Emmy’s Spaghetti Shack, The Smokehouse, Original Philippe’s, Apple Pan, Bad Waitress, Langer’s Deli, Stan’s Donuts of Westwood
Favorite Cafes: Caffe Mediterraneum (Berkeley), Steps of Rome (San Francisco) (r.i.p.), Pois (Lisbon), Bar Italia (London), Philz (San Jose)
Foods I hate: cucumber, melons, cilantro, coconut meat (but I like the milk); I am allergic to avocados, but I like them.
FASHION
Where I shop: second-hand stores, Target, anyplace cheap
Where I wished I shopped: Savile Row, Brooks Brothers, Bergdorf Goodman, Barney’s, Bobby from Boston
Brands I love: whichever ones are cheap, yet snazzy
I like to wear: probably too much black
Can’t live without: my Chuck Taylors
Prized Possessions: this one black jacket I have
Guilty Pleasure: outlandish Versace shirts I find in charity shops
TV
Favorite Shows: Daria, O’Grady, Seinfeld, Amos ‘n Andy, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Quantum Leap, Breaking Bad, Sifl and Olly, Fawlty Towers, Arrested Development, South Park, Good Eats, The Simpsons
Favorite Channels: The N, Food Network
Favorite Reruns: Cosby Show
Most Addictive Show: Breaking Bad
Favorite Late Night Talk Show: Letterman in the ’80s, Jools Holland
Characters you relate to: Basil Fawlty
Favorite Theme Song: Sifl and Olly have a good one, so does Daria.
Show I Secretly Watch: If there were one, I wouldn’t keep it a secret. Oh wait– it’s Hannah Montana. For reals. But only sometimes.
Show I wished wasn’t cancelled: Arrested Development
EXPERTISE
Driving heck of far, making two songs mix together real good like, being really well-organized, ignoring ambient noises in my vicinity, wearing pajamas, Scrabble, gin rummy, working crossword puzzles, knowing random facts about fruits and vegetables, prestidigitation
ORGANIZATIONS
Franklin Pierce Fan Club, Pajamas in Public, Sleep ’til Noon Society, Super Double Secret Party Planning Crew