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I got tagged twice with the "8 things you may not know about me" meme thingamabob. The first was a few weeks ago and while I've meant to do it, I've had a draft post staring at me for a couple of weeks with no real movement.

The second was apparently just what it took to get this thing out the door.

So bear witness as I do my business.

1. I didn't learn to drive, and in fact never even got behind the wheel of a car, until recently. I'm actually still a "new driver" in the eyes of the insurance industry.
2. I've been, at various times, a pretty serious dealer and collector of vintage comic books and original comic book art. I've twice owned complete runs of Marvel Comics' Daredevil, including a high grade copy of #1 that I sold for $3550 early last year. I still own several thousand books, a reasonable collection of original art and still maintain a perfect feedback rating on eBay with over 1600 uniques.
3. I've broken both of my wrists twice. The fourth and last time (the second on my right side) was a horrendous break that made my arm look like a dinner spoon. Freaky stuff. For those keeping track, I broke that one tossing a football around on the steps of the Copley Library. I made heck of a catch.
4. I appeared, skateboarding, in the opening credits of a local cable access show called Night Shift that my friend Yakov Caplan hosted in the 80s. I was completely hung over during the filming so in between each take I would sit around hoping I'd be able to keep my breakfast down.
5. I saw the Red Sox turn a triple play back when I was too young to appreciate how rare one is.
6. I own all 26 of the films in the Shintaro Katsu Zatoichi series on DVD and have an admittedly small dream of watching them back to back to back over as small a period of time as I can muster. Of course, with things like work and blog posts finding the time to do that is tough
7. I had an aversion to mushrooms for years after seeing Attack of the Mushtoom People when I was a young child. For those who grew up in the area- yes, it was on Creature Double Feature. Now? No such aversion. So please, send me your morels.
8. My first show was seeing The Minutemen at The Channel. Not a bad start.

The deed is done.