I've been tagged by Wendy Waters (All About Cities). I'm supposed to list seven facts about myself and tag seven others.
Ok, I'll play.
- I've never tasted ketchup.
- I did not wear socks between 1984 and 2002 (yuck, I know)
- I took a three-year break from practicing law to go to math graduate school, which is how I ended up in Austin.
- I'm a horrible public speaker.
- I grew up on 12 acres of forested land outside a small town in Mississippi, which explains my fascination with cities and urbanism. (Nothing against the woods or McComb, Mom.)
- When I was 7, my elementary school was struck by a Category 4 tornado as I was about to walk in. My mom grabbed me by the scruff of the neck and dragged me back to our 1973 Pontiac, where we rode out the tornado. (The school bus right in front of us ended upside-down in a ditch.)
- I got married in Athens. Two days before our wedding, a reporter from Good Morning Greece interviewed us at the Acropolis -- he was interviewing tourists at random -- and asked to cover our wedding. We agreed. The reporter and his crew actually showed up to tape it. Two days later we went to Santorini. We walked into our little villa and, as is my habit when traveling, I turned on the TV first thing. And there was my face on the screen; they were running the piece at that very moment. My wife and I joked we'd never be able to walk down Athen's streets again without being mobbed.
Mike Dahmus (M1EK's Bake-Sale of Bile)
Tim Thomas (Loaded Gun Theory)
Ryan Avent (The Bellows)
The Overhead Wire (not sure if maintaining pseudonymity)
Adam (Market Urbanism)
Jude Galligan (Downtown Austin)
Matthew Kahn (Environmental and Urban Economics)
Bonus: Shawn Shillington (if Austinist lets him play)
