Tell me more about _______?

[Rev. Rye]

Here's some more from me:

1) My mother loved West Highland White Terriers; she had no less than three live ones in her life, and a lot of Westie toys.

2) The closest thing to a relationship I've ever been in was with a girl in college. She was walking around school barefoot, and I just had to build up the courage to talk with her. We seemed to hit it off; she even let me take a picture of her feet. Sadly, a few weeks later, she apparently realised how I felt and told me "Sorry, but I'm gay." We met through the rest of the semester, and I thought we were able to keep it on a "just friends" level, but the next semester, she got more butch and didn't seem to have any interest in talking like we did last semester. From what I've been able to gather, she's currently based in London and may or may not have a girlfriend. I wish them the best of luck.

3) I sleep with the collected works of Salinger (plus two biographies), Dostoevsky's four major novels, some works about Stoicism, and at least two translations of the Dhammapada by my bedside, all in hardcover.

4) As a kid I wanted to be a zoologist; as the sturm and drang in my childhood increased, I became more interested in creative arts.

5) I recently attended a reading by Adam Levin, the author of one of my favourite recent books, contributed a blurb that said it was "the only novel released this decade worth reading." When I saw him, my first thought was "Damn. I thought you were taller." He autographed my copy of The Instructions, and said, "Thanks for the Blurb."

6) I spent one year on the Junior Varsity of the Academic Bowl in High School, Three on regular Varsity in the same sport, and three years on my college bowl. Year 1: I was the #2 guy on the team. Year 2: I was the captain. Year 3: I was the whole team. Seriously, I went as my college bowl team solo and not only won the top scorer, I scored higher than at least four of the other colleges with proper teams.

7) My GPA went up a whole point as soon as I stopped taking Gym Classes in high school.

8) I was born the day after Taylor Swift, and I'm sure I look old enough to be her father.

9) I've never been west of the Mississippi, and I've only been west of Gary, IN twice in my life.

10) I have no interest whatsoever in any sport that involves a ball.

11) I write right-handed, and play guitar left-handed.

12) Whenever I'm told to say something random, I say "Happiness is smoking hash from a human skull."

13) I've researched plans to create a bomb that releases a gas that triggers sexual arousal in anyone exposed to it, and detonate it at the Republican National Convention, ideally leading to a massive orgy in the middle of the event, like in the climax of Perfume. Sadly, I was unable to find any gas that fit the qualities. Oh, well. Maybe in 2016 we'll see the Republican TV Orgy. It'll certainly be more entertaining than Clint Eastwood pretending to be Bob Newhart.