A few interesting points about me:
In
1981 at age 17, I did a couple of stand up comedy routines at "The
Improv" in Los Angeles. It was amateur night and I was 4 years too
young to even be in the place. This was before everybody and their brother
wanted to do standup. I met Jay Leno outside, heard him use the "f"
word.
The
first concert I ever went to was Luciano Pavarotti. He didn't bite off any bat
heads or pee
into the audience or anything like that.
Taylor Dayne and Dee Snider (Twisted Sister) graduated from my high school on Long Island. "Taylor" is short for Leslie Wonderman.
In
1992, 10 days after the L.A.
riots, while standing on a street corner in Sacramento, a nice young black
man pointed a .357 magnum at me from 2 feet away and demanded my money. Our
hero, me, not only gave him the money but did NOT poop in my pants. He got 20
bucks, I got my life. Nice trade. I feel so cheap.
The
first woman I ever had sex with was a Hawaiian.
She was not a hooker.
My
hobby when I was 13 was riding the Long
Island Rail Road.
Worst
job I ever had: putting away books in a library. When there was nothing else to
do, you had to "read shelves" which meant making sure all of the books
were in order. In reality, you'd sit on a stool and zone out for hours. You would
have to move the stool every so often to make it look good. I was in the kid's
section, and they took great pleasure in throwing the neatly shelved books all
over the place. It was tremendous
fun for all of us. And they paid me too! $2.20 an hour!
My
fathers' aunt was one of NYC's first policewomen. (Several other cops are in the family history, but this was
more unique)
My
wife's grandmother knew Pope
John Paul II. Not
a joke. How weird is that?
In my 13 years out west, I saw a cumulative snowfall amount of 1 inch. In my first winter in Buffalo, I saw 140 inches.
