[Updated] Gimme five (and pass it on)

Bren slapped me five this week. He is perpetuating some kind of blog chain letter thing (or a social pyramid scheme) in which you tell five things about yourself, then tag five more bloggers to keep the chain going. Interesting game - and kinda fun.

So - here are five, little-known things I'm willing to share:

1. My first car was actually an old truck purchased from the late Cajun television chef Justin Wilson for $150 (he was a friend of the family - "I GARONTEE!").
2. I can look at a printed page and misspelled words tend to "pop out" at me like magic. (For some reason, it doesn't work as reliably on a computer screen - I don't know why...)
3. Between 1983 and 1991, I was a professional radio DJ and traffic reporter (under the names Adam West, Dwayne Adams, Bruce Wayne, and Yule Devni).
4. When I was 5, I nearly drowned in Louisiana Senator Russell Long's swimming pool (another family friend).
5. I am very picky about how sheets are put on my bed, to the point that I often re-make beds in hotel rooms, and I insist that I put the sheets on my bed at home (my wife refuses to play along and make the bed my way).

Now, here are five bloggers I'd like to give the gift of "five."

• Phil Gerbyshak
• John Richardson
• Guy Kawasaki - Got a note from Guy yesterday saying he doesn't participate in these tagging things, so he's now at the mercy of the Nigerians <g> - I've rounded out the list with another person, below.
• Gretchen Rubin
• James Governor
• Buzz Bruggeman

Don't break the chain - the last person that broke the chain accidentally responded to that Nigerian email scam and lost everything he had. Double true.

Comments

[John Richardson]

Tag... I'm it... heh! Thanks for the Tag, Dwayne. A couple of other bloggers have tagged me this week, so a post is definitely in order.

After hearing your voice on a podcast, I wondered if you had ever done any broadcasting before. I remember a Bruce Wayne on one of our local stations here in the Los Angeles market. I can't believe that was you... how cool! And since I still can't pronounce your last name properly, a Batmanish sur-name was probably the way to go.

Since I don't give a sheet about sheets, it's interesting to hear about proper sheet fitting... sounds like fodder for a future post... no sheet!

Cheers!

John

P.S. a couple of the words above didn't pass the Firefox 2.0 spell check... sorry!

[Phil Gerbyshak]

Very interesting 5 about you. No way I would have known any of these things about you.

Knowing what I know now, I should have had you spell check my book before I published it. There were a few typos I missed that I'll bet you'd have caught.

And I thought there was something cool about your voice. You sound like Batman! :)