The wife and kid, books, movies, comics, music, Pez, breakfast foods, lukewarm Chinese take-out, grilling, the Boston Red Sox, good beer, cartoons, writing, pajama pants, a good cup of tea, tasty coffee with the right mix of dairy and sugar, knowing a lot of obscure crap for no reason at all, platypi, my house, caped vigilantism, spreading misinformation whenever possible.
Music
Juliana Hatfield, The Beatles, XTC, Weezer, Ben Folds, Blake Babies, The Aquabats, They Might Be Giants, The Pixies, The Lemonheads, Piebald, The Apples in Stereo, The Monkees, Weird Al Yankovic, Elvis Costello, The New Pornographers, The Replacements, Rilo Kiley, Mike Doughty, Belle and Sebastian, The Cure, The Shins, Neutral Milk Hotel, Violent Femmes
Movies
Casablanca, Run Lola Run, Amelie, Zero Effect, About a Boy, High Fidelity, Lost in Translation, Batman: The Movie, The Goonies, North By Northwest, Army of Darkness, The Princess Bride, Kiki's Delivery Service, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Citizen Kane, Superman, the X-Men movies, To Sir With Love, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Angus, Lilo and Stitch, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the first two Spider-Man movies, Rocky 3, Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan, most Godzilla movies, Stardust, Juno
Television
Doctor Who, Heroes, Good Eats, Iron Chef, Justice League Unlimited, Spaced, Arrested Development, How I Met Your Mother, Battlestar Galactica (though I'm way behind), Batman, The Monkees, MST3K, The Daily Show, 30 Rock, Pushing Daisies, Cash Cab, Mythbusters, Torchwood
Books
Booky-type books: Slaughterhouse Five, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, To Kill a Mockingbird, My Antonia, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Microserfs, Ender's Game, The Fountainhead, D'Aulaire's Book of Greek Mythology, The Partly Cloudy Patriot, Sex Drugs and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto, Assassination Vacation, Killing Yourself to Live, Life After God
Comics: DC The New Frontier, The Professor's Daughter, Starman, Bone, The Life & Times of Scrooge McDuck, Legion of Super-Heroes, the original Captain Marvel, The Spirit, Scott Pilgrim, Optic Nerve, Love and Rockets, 60s Fantastic Four and Spider-Man, 70s/80s X-Men, Tricked, Box Office Poison, All-Star Superman, Animal Man, Tales from the Beanworld, Blue Beetle
Heroes
Abraham Lincoln, Atticus Finch, Albert Einstein, Superman.
University Of Maine
Orono,Maine
Graduated: 1998
Student status: Alumni
Major: English
Minor: No, I am an adult.
Clubs: 91.9 WMEB, The Maine Campus (for a semester or so, anyway), some Underdog plays, and Sigma Tau Delta, the English honor society (for like a minute and a half).
1994 to 1998
Bangor High School
Bangor,Maine
Graduated: 1994
Student status: Alumni
Clubs: RamPage, Theater, Speech, pointless teen angst
1990 to 1994
Bill actually forgot he still had a MySpace account. view more
I do my thing. My thing is, admittedly, pretty dorky most days, but my wife Erin and son Liam are awesome, so I figure I'm doing something right. I'm a bookworm, a movie lover, a museum junkie, a library guy, a Red Sox fan, and as far as I can tell, the closest you're ever going to come to meeting Charlie Brown in real life. I own many Pez dispensers and comic books. Erin describes my taste in music as "indie / Beatle-esque," which is probably pretty accurate. My very favorite food is French toast, and no phrase in the English language brings a smile to my face faster than "breakfast served all day." We just bought a house. It's nice, and the neighborhood dogs seem significantly less feral than where we lived before.
I forgot to tell you....I was in your old house a couple of weeks ago. That was weird. I kept thinking the entire time "Man, this is Bill's house, not Gretchen's!"
Super Smash Brothers Brawl is certainly a popular title. I haven't played it yet , but earlier incarnations were quite good. If you like very silly funny games I would recommend Rayman (Raving Rabbids 1 or 2...I've only played 1, but I'm sure the second one is great as well!) Super Mario Galaxy is amazing, but not a great rent. You need more time than that.
Ah... a wonderful quote from They Might Be Giants. Brings me back. Sigh. I only got to one of their concerts... not sure what year though. (Memory problems, u know. 94, maybe?) I do recall that I had a Mountain Dew poured over my head that night, after the show. Ah, yes, memories.
OH MY GOD! My friend Gretchen totally lives in your old house!!!! I saw pictures and I was like "Hey, I've been in there before!" How weird is that?!?!
Wow....you ARE like Charlie Brown. I never thought of that before. :) Hope you, the wifey and the adorable boy are doing awesome down there. Just think....spring training is right around the corner. :)
I'm glad to hear my doppelganger is doing well in RI. I have no idea why she wouldn't be happy to be at Target though. Maybe I need to have a talk with her.
