So far NOBODY has targeted me for that “Write 25 things about yourself” meme that’s sweeping Facebook. Well that’s fine, I don’t mind at all that NOBODY OUT THERE HAS THOUGHT OF ME. No I’m fine it’s just something in my eye…sniff!

Here’s my 25 Things. Use them at your peril.

1) I have never owned an Xbox, but I wrote for the Official magazine for like 3 years. Oops!

2) Nothing on this planet annoys me more than people who don’t use their talent because of their laziness, apathy or insecurities. Jesus people most of us have, what, ten years tops to make a mark on the world and you’re sitting on the couch watching the game? GET TO WORK.

3) If you’ve ever talked to me on the telephone then you should know that I hate, hate, hate being on the telephone. Detest it with a firey passion usually reserved for my equally irrational source of hate and bitterness, Philip Seymour Hoffman.

4) Oh man, don’t even get me started about Philp Seymour Hoffman. His continued existence just bugs me like a nasty case of dandruff. GET OUT OF MY TELEVISION / SCALP, PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN.

5) So far none of my television appearances have made me famous. Neither have my internet ones. What’s a guy got to do to get famous around here?

6) I am incredibly lucky to have the life I have and I hope the people who enable me to have said life know that I appreciate it.

7) It’s been a year since I decided to throw myself back into the world of comics and I’ve had an absolute blast so far. I am kicking myself for giving up on them so many times before. The distribution issue always managed to thwart any attempt at getting any momentum going. The web really doesn’t have that issue.

8 – I think I’m pretty good at my day job, but truth be told still don’t know exactly how I got it.

9) I don’t cook nearly as well as my wife thinks I do.

10) No matter what I’m doing or how many side projects are going on I still can’t get rid of the feeling that I’m being lazy or not doing enough. There’s always five more projects to be doing or five more friends to be seeing or five more things I could be doing for my wife.

11) Conversely I can’t say no to anything. Want me to write a book? Sure. Want me to do a guest strip? I’m there. Want me volunteers for your yak shaving contest? Sign me up. It’s a sickness.

12) Making video games all day is good fun but nowhere near as much fun as people think it is. It’s a lot of paperwork and compromise and having to argue about your creative decisions. Having a game you helped make sit on the store shelf is awesomely cool though. (Not so hot seeing it in the second hand area a week later, but hey!)

13) There’s this giant ticking LED clock above my head for the past 20 years and it’s ticking down and I don’t know how much time there is left so I have to finish this list so I can move onto the next thing like NOW GO GO GO

14) Still can’t listen to The Clouds any more, despite them ostinsibly being my favourite band of all time. Sorry. Just can’t do it any more.

15) My time on the radio wasn’t much better than my time on television, but it did help me tick off another medium to appear on. Oh, Podcasts, I’ve done them too. Next: Hollywood movies starring Alyson Hannigan.

16) I still stand firm that Tunnels And Trolls is better than Dungeons and Dragons. You could play it by yourself, which got me through high school lunch breaks just fine. Yes, I was such a geek that not even the Dungeons and Dragons nerds would hang out with me.

17) I’m so old that we only had one computer in our school, and you had to be in the top maths class to use it. This baffled me, since I sucked at maths and was somehow able to operate my Commodore 64 just fine at home.

18) Actually in the last year of school they got a heap of giant laptops. I think I stole one. I have no idea why I did it, and have less of an idea why I didn’t remember that until just now. What the heck did I do with it?

18) The things I would do with Ben Affleck if left to our own devices can’t even be put into words.

19) I could really do with some chocolate milk right now.

20) Tinitus is a pain in the ass, figuratively speaking. Imagine someone blowing a whistle right next to your ear 24 hours a day 7 days a week, 364 days a year (he doesn’t work on Good Friday). It drove me mad until I learned to drone it out with a specific blend of early ’90s indie rock music.

21) I stand firm on the idea that they stopped making music after July 21, 1997. They stopped making video games after 1994 too.

22) I really hope Plant-Man takes off, or at least, does alright. It needs more promotion but lord it makes me happy to draw and write. I hope you like it.

23) I spent the last half hour trying to think of what my perfect day would be, but couldn’t. I guess it hasn’t happened yet?

24) I think it’s so cute that people think I want to know about their stuff.

25) If I could go back in time fifteen years ago I’d tell myself “dude, you’re awesome. Keep going exactly how you’re going” and then play some Super Nintendo.

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