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I don’t usually like LJ “memes” but this one allows me the indulgence of self-aggrandizing oneupmanship. So let’s kick it.

Ten Things I Have Done That You Probably Haven’t

1. Seen a supersonic airliner crash
   
2. Been sued by my psychotherapy clinic
   
3. Got a get-well card from the French absurdist playwright Eugene Ionesco
   
4. Been a passenger in a WWII-era Grumman Goose flying boat and landed on water
   
5. Crashed America Online. All of it.
   
6. Been the subject of a months-long campaign of hate by Jane’s Addiction singer Perry Farrell
   
7. Lived ten years in Los Angeles without a car
   
8. Had a warrant out for my arrest for jaywalking
   
9. Fought rats in the dark basement of a Venetian palazzo
   
10. Seen Charlie Chaplin in person