Two-Legged Animal

October 17, 2011

Jordan’s ABCs.

Filed under: What it's like to be me — Jordan @ 7:53 pm

A. Age: 26
B. Bed size: Queen, which is only big enough when Eric and I are alternating.
C. Chore that you hate: Anything Eric bothers me about… which is everything.
D. Dogs: Just my Georges. I had to abandon Frankie and Maggie when I moved out of my parents’ house.
E. Essential start to your day: No shit, I have to check Ript first thing every morning before getting ready for work.
F. Favorite color: Black, white and scarlet.
G. Gold or Silver: Silver.
H. Height: 5’6″-ish
I. Instruments you play: Let me put it this way: my proudest musical moment was playing Weezer’s “The Sweater Song” on the drums. Yes it’s really that bad.
J. Job title: Teacher/Starving Artist
K. Kids: No, thank you, and not any time soon. If ever.
L. Live: D.C.
M. Mother’s name: Ann. Poof to you.
N. Nicknames: Kodiak and Mer, and I suppose Chucklenuts has caught on lately.
O. Overnight hospital stays: I don’t think I’ve ever done it – not even for eye surgery if I remember correctly.
P. Pet peeves: People who don’t know the difference between being polite and outright hypocrisy.
Q. Quote from a movie: “PACK my SUITCASE?!”
R. Right or left handed: Right.
S. Siblings: Jeremy.
U. Underwear: Cozy and soft.
V. Vegetable you hate: Carrots. How do seemingly normal people eat those things?
W. What makes you run late: Feeling crappy. Are there other reasons?
X. X-Rays you’ve had: My finger and my shoulder.
Y. Yummy food that you make: Lasagna and roasted pears, but that’s pretty much all I make.
Z. Zoo animal: Sloth bear! Duh.

1 Comment »

  1. re: book review request by award-winning author

    Dear Two-Legged Animal:

    I’m an award-winning author with a new book of fiction out this fall. Ugly To Start With is a series of thirteen interrelated stories about childhood published by West Virginia University Press.

    Can I interest you in reviewing it?

    If you write me back at johnmcummings@aol.com, I can email you a PDF of my book. If you require a bound copy, please ask, and I will forward your reply to my publisher. Or you can write directly to Abby Freeland at:

    Abby.Freeland@mail.wvu.edu

    My publisher, I should add, can also offer your readers a free excerpt of my book through a link from your blog to my publisher’s website:
    http://wvupressonline.com/cummings_ugly_to_start_with_9781935978084

    Here’s what Jacob Appel, celebrated author of
    Dyads and The Vermin Episode, says about my new collection: “In Ugly to Start With, set in the eastern panhandle of West Virginia, Cummings tackles the challenges of boyhood adventure and family conflict in a taut, crystalline style that captures the triumphs and tribulations of small-town life. He has a gift for transcending the particular experiences to his characters to capture the universal truths of human affection and suffering–emotional truths that the members of his audience will recognize from their own experiences of childhood and adolescence.”

    My short stories have appeared in more than seventy-five literary journals, including North American Review, The Kenyon Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, and The Chattahoochee Review. Twice I have been nominated for The Pushcart Prize. My short story “The Scratchboard Project” received an honorable mention in The Best American Short Stories 2007.

    I am also the author of the nationally acclaimed coming-of-age novel The Night I Freed John Brown (Philomel Books, Penguin Group, 2009), winner of The Paterson Prize for Books for Young Readers (Grades 7-12) and one of ten books recommended by USA TODAY.

    For more information about me, please visit:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Michael_Cummings

    Thank you very much, and I look forward to hearing back from you.

    Kindly,

    John Michael Cummings

    Comment by John Michael Cummings — December 20, 2011 @ 6:06 pm


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