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!
Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens and a collection of essays about The Beatles
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
I've been listing "Plume" as a favorite word since I was about 13. It has a nice, sky-blue ring to it.





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. :-)
Posted by: danielle | 08 February 2007 at 09:26 AM
Oops, I guess it's Selzer's pet peeve. But my previous comment still holds true.
Posted by: danielle | 08 February 2007 at 09:27 AM
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.
Posted by: Caroline | 08 February 2007 at 07:05 PM
"could of" is horrible horrible stuff
Posted by: Nancy | 08 February 2007 at 11:47 PM
Bloody Mary is my irrational fear too. I was just posting about that myself.
Posted by: ellie | 09 February 2007 at 12:16 AM