Damn you, New York Times!
So about 2 or 3 years ago my friend Greg asked me if I wanted go check out "Troll 2".
At the time I had never even heard of it but looked it up and thought it sounded funny.
I ended up going and it was really weird(in a good way).
The people who were there were die hard fans and they were shouting out lines along with the movie.
Kind of like people checking out "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" would.
For some reason I kept jokingly thinking,
I hope there is no evidence that I ever came to this event!
Then suddenly 2 or 3 years later there is evidence
and
it's in the New York Times!
I'm in the second row on the right hand side with the big smile on my face:
http://movies.nytimes.com/2010/05/14/movies/14best.html?ref=movies
How dare the New York Times manage to get a picture of me smiling from 2 or 3 years ago!

Here are some(of many) new photos of me taken a couple of weeks ago by Jeff Demers:

Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat and wonder if the person who rented my car rental after me in North Dakota a few years ago appreciated the fact that I forgot to take my "Dresden Dolls" CD out of the CD player of the car.
I'll never know!

A Mark Twain quote that has always stuck with me is this one:

Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.

The quote is from the beginning of his "The Adventures Huckleberry Finn" book.

I remember first hearing it when I was a freshman in college.
Our teacher asked us what we thought Mark Twain meant by that.
For the rest of the hour long(maybe it was longer) class everyone talked and argued about this simple quote.

I thought that what Mark Twain meant was:
Maybe you shouldn't waste an hour of your life arguing and examining a simple quote that tells you to NOT do that.
Yet...
there we all were examining and arguing over this quote.

The whole time I kept thinking,
I bet if the ghost of Mark Twain could sit in on this and watch us doing this he would probably laugh his ass off.

It's because of this that I decided back then and still continue to think that Mark Twain is one of the funniest people who have ever lived.

I

don't know who the 1st person to advise someone to just
Picture everyone is naked!

when they feel nervous about talking in front of a group of people
but
that person was most likely a pervert.
That person was also most likely a genius
because
people have been stealing their bad advice for years.