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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

Comments

I'm a wannabe you

[wabooba.livejournal.com]

1. I knew someone who survived two commercial crashes.
2. I knew the person who filed the first sexual harrassment lawsuit in the state of Idaho.
3. Met Desi Arnaz.

I know, I got a wayz to go.

[odradak.livejournal.com]

Why haven't I heard half of this stuff yet?

[miss-geek.livejournal.com]

you're all hardcore.

also, #5 reminds me of the time at socially hazardous when i was asked to delete the whole internet and put it back again.

[mcbrennan.livejournal.com]

This list would be difficult to top under most any circumstances. Should you care to elaborate, I'd be eager to hear the details.

[chaptal.livejournal.com]

let me add a me too to that.

[gutbloom.livejournal.com]

Yes, that looks like 10 topics for future posts. I'm particularly interested in how you crashed America Online.

[verminefasciste.livejournal.com]

Been the subject of a months-long campaign of hate by Jane’s Addiction singer Perry Farrell

EXPLAIN

[autodidactic.livejournal.com]

Yeah! The best I ever got was a few SubGenii trying to kill me.

A.

[yoscott.livejournal.com]

ooo ooo I did #5 too! but you got me on the rest, though I've been on a hijacked airplane

[predicate.livejournal.com]

Holy shit, man.

You realize of course that you should be a memoirist or something.

It's THOSE sorts of things that make for a great eHarmony profile, in my opinion...

There IS no letter after Z

[fattmike.livejournal.com]

Funny, I was just going to mention that not only did I know someone who did number 5 (that sounds like 2 1/2 times dirtier than number 2), but he did also :D

As for the others, I've got nothing.

[switchstatement.livejournal.com]

i vote for hearing stories 3 and 5 please! you've mentioned 6 in the past but hey DO THAT TOO.

[hoyvenmayven.livejournal.com]

Yes! Oh please oh please, i MUST hear this story!!!

[gcrumb.livejournal.com]

#1 - Does witnessing an f-18 crash and burn on take-off count? Does it count if the plane lands on a community's fuel supply lines, requiring an evacuation order for the town?

[springheel-jack.livejournal.com]

So far, in my book, you and defenestr8r are winning.

[initial.livejournal.com]

Yes,pleasetellusthestories
(Iapologizeformyspacebar.)

[hotelsamurai.livejournal.com]

yeah.