a little more about me

Since many blogs are about people's soul-baring observations and assorted flotsam, and since I strongly believe the personal is, in fact, political, here are more things about me. Not things I would put in a bio, you've gotten most of the important demographic/work/orientation bidness.

Arbitrary Facts about Max:

• I think that guinea pigs, while being an important food source for a portion of the world, are completely adorable. When I do network testing, I use the "Guinea Pig TeleVision" site (which refreshes every two minutes).
  
  
• I ran away from home when I was two weeks past 17, and never went back. As a consequence, I now have a meaningful and deep relationship to my parents instead of a headstone. Yay for doing things the hard way!
  
  
• I should be asleep right now. Right, you knew that.
  
  
• My friends tease me for not reading fiction. Does it show? I suppose. But there are authors whom I read when I'm not in the middle of 6 non-fiction treatises...like Sherman Alexie, Ntozake Shange, Leslie Marmon Silko and Toni Morrison.
  
  
• I habitually spoof song lyrics (some of which I may post) and like drawing cartoons. I've been a little uninspired (and way overcommitted) lately, but if I have free time (hah!) and a scanner, I may grace these pages with something.I did an inspired ad for a 24-hour white-guilt hotline that I was particularly proud of...
  
  
• I'm a big fan of Kermit the Frog.
  
  
• I'm fond of run-on sentences, parentheticals, and elipses. I will try my darndest to spare you, gracious reader.
  

Signing off my first blog venture,
-Max