I'm one in 2 million. Literally.

I'm a libertine by nature, born with a swirling vortex in my heart. I'm a barely tolerable bon vivant.

I love books, beers and bands.

I love and miss my Grandma and My Best Girl Bigsby.

I drink High Life and Jameson.

I like nerds, writers and responsible people.

I like dangerously clever people with multisyllabic vocabularies and twisted, infallible logic.

I like to fall sleep in the Whedonverse and wake up on my own.

I like kickin' it old school. I like the Doctor on Friday nights and Zach Morris on Saturday mornings. I like tat'd greasers with bad attitudes and soft hands. I like epic books and shifts in the paradigm. I like Centro-Matic at midnight and a full moon view from my front porch.

I like my cocktail hour to start at noon. I like Lester Bangs and the rock writer ethos. I'm hungry as Bourdain and damaged as David. I like bad movies and gossip sites. But, I loathe bad writing and insincere fandom.

I like Ernie Cline and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. I like sidewalk orgasms and rock overload in spring.

I like Elvis Costello and Jason Isbell and Sun Hotel. I love Kathleen Edwards. I like fuck you songs with bitter lyrics. A lot.

I like words: well spoken, well written and well justified.

I like epidemiology. I like late nights in dark rooms in a self-conscious haze. I loathe the daylight. I like cozy bars and strong cocktails. I like making lists. I love Saints football, cold days and hot toddies.

I like people who don't question my motives.

I like beans and rice at Juan's and Torchy's tacos. I eat Buffa's at midnight and weaklings for breakfast. I like socialist theory and the history of salt. I like being guided by Robert Pollard. I like dirty, rotten scoundrels. The movie and the rogue class.

I like playing unfair. I like holding grudges. I like to rage. I like to make out in random places. I like to wake up in my own bed. I like the occasional karmic kick in the head.

I like to find out how people who got married in high school are doing these days. I like people who fuck for validation. I'm a fan of both games with interpretable rules and the zero-sum kind.

I like when the universe tells me to get loud.

I like Chicago. The city, not the band. I like New York and Austin.

I love New Orleans.

I like expensive hotels and cheap drinks with men of dubious character.

I like random magic tricks, well-practiced bad jokes and short road trips with long playlists. I like ghosts, vampires, the Chupacabra and Roberto Clemente. I like Bigfoot and Godzilla and UFOs and Jandek.

I like to change my mind. I like when others don't.

I like a sincere laugh. I like irony not defined by Americans or Emo kids. I like fuck-ups and fucking with people. I like being serenaded by boys who sing Death Cab.

I hide the pain for the things I can't explain. I like the slow descent into a life I never meant.

I like to geek out.

I love WILCO.

I do not like hugs. I am never bored.