SDQ Interview with Adam Selzer.

Here's a factoid that'll make reading the laugh-out-loud funny How to Get Suspended and Influence People even more entertaining:

Adam Selzer spent his teen years in Gwinnett County, Georgia.  Yep.  That Gwinnett County.  In his day -- pre-Harry Potter -- he battled a group of censors who took issue with The Basketball Diaries.

On to the SDQI!

Books currently reading:

Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens and a collection of essays about The Beatles

CDs in current rotation:

Modern Times by Bob Dylan (writers like Dylan only come around once a century or so), My Chemical Romance (a band I never thought I'd like, but the new album is great fun), Regina Spektor, early Tom Waits, and a group called Ookla the Mok.

Last Movie Viewed:

Groundhog Day

Literary Crush:

Fictional:  Norah from "Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist."  I think she'd like me.  For a while.

Real:  I'm not sure I'd call it a crush, but I've pretty much based my life on the teachings of Daniel Pinkwater.

Pet Peeve:

People who write "could of" or "should of" instead of "could've" or "should've." Grrrr. That and my train/bus card breaking, which happens far too often.

Current obsessions:

The primaries for the 2008 election (already), West Wing reruns, getting up to speed on the comic book world, tracking down Beatles bootlegs, overanalyzing Bob Dylan

Guilty Pleasure:

I'm not sure one should feel too guilty about one's pleasures, but I don't suppose I'll get a lot of street cred for the nights I spend eating pizza and watching Nickelodeon.

Irrational Fear:

My work as a ghost tour guide in Chicago has hardened me to most of the weirder fears, but in the middle of the night I still sometimes worry that Bloody Mary will show up in my mirror.

Favorite word:

I've been listing "Plume" as a favorite word since I was about 13. It has a nice, sky-blue ring to it.

Comments

[danielle]

re: your pet peeve. See my recent blog entry about "for all intensive purposes"; I fully attribute these types of grammatical gaffes to our society's penchant for hearing rather than reading. Most of what I know about grammar comes from reading a lot, not from being taught in school. "Should of" makes perfect sense if you don't read enough to know it's really just a contraction.

"should of" and "could of" is one of my biggest pet peeves too. :-)

[danielle]

Oops, I guess it's Selzer's pet peeve. But my previous comment still holds true.

[Caroline]

I've been creeped out by mirrors in darkened rooms for years. No matter how many times I tell myself it's the dumbest thing ever, I have to avert my eyes and flee.

[Nancy]

"could of" is horrible horrible stuff

[ellie]

Bloody Mary is my irrational fear too. I was just posting about that myself.