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Aug 16, 2007

Eight Random Things

I’ve been tagged by Chicago’s own/Boston’s former Mike Maddaloni. Here are eight random facts about me:

  1. I met Harrison Ford and Bill Clinton in separate events, and managed to look like a complete twerp in both photos.
  2. Realizing it was the coolest nickname ever, I signed my first grade assignments “Chip Myler” for at least two weeks. Then I stopped.

  3. I collaborated on a mix CD titled Don’t Fear the Cowbell, inspired by the SNL skit. The CD was comprised of songs that feature the now-famous percussive instrument (“Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough” by Michael Jackson, for example). Later, that same CD found its way into Will Ferrell’s hands; Tinger will have to tell that story.
  4. I have written two screenplays. One is largely terrible. The other might show promise if I moved to L.A. and rewrote it for seven months while hopped up on Peet’s coffee.
  5. I can’t stand the feel of unglazed pottery. It’s like fingernails on a chalkboard.
  6. I can eat 14 krispy kreme doughnuts in 30 minutes.
  7. I ran cross country for three years in high school, track for two, and swam for one.
  8. I interned in the White House Gift Unit for a semester in college, cataloging gifts received by the Clintons at events and state visits. It was cool for a week until it got boring. However, one time I had the opportunity to drop a bizarre letter into a special envelope and truck it down to the Secret Service for analysis, which was pretty sweet.

It explains so much, doesn’t it? Passing on to:

  • Dad

    You forgot “Frat. Boy” by the General, Chip.

  • Mom

    You also forgot that one guy in the General’s office thought you looked like a Chip.

  • http://www.evolvingpage.com Drew

    You two share a brain, don’t you.

  • http://whatsawebsite? Harrod

    You may have mistakenly neglected to write that you both have cats who like to beg for sandwich meats as if they were a dog.

  • http://www.evolvingpage.com/ Drew

    Nice one, Jefferson. The usual stereotype has a cat silently bounding into the kitchen when his or her owner powers up the can opener. This one recognizes the sound of a deli-counter ziploc bag opening.

  • Nicola

    Self-imposed nicknames…another thing you have in common with your bride. Chip and Nilla 4-ever!

  • Tinger

    Interned in the White House? I think it’s fair disclosure to point out that you actually worked in the Old Executive Office Building, Mr. Embellisher of details.

    And I couldn’t agree more about the unglazed pottery, it seriously makes my spine shiver.

  • http://www.evolvingpage.com/ Drew

    First of all – I assign the nicknames around here Ting. And for your information, said gift unit was secretly located off the Oval Office. Most days I’d wander in holding up a mesh hat or a coffee mug that said I (heart) Dubuque which someone had handed the president at a campaign stop. “You want to keep this one?” I’d ask, and he’d shake his head yes or no. On occasion we’d go for barbecue.

  • Dad

    Don’t forget, that’s where you got hooked on Krispy Kremes.

  • ESW

    As discussed this weekend, neither Tinger nor myself feel that 14 Krispy Kreme’s in 30 minutes is note-worthy. Back me up Tinger.

  • Weeks

    Wow… what’s with the cheap shots from the peanut gallery?? Does anyone know where the footage from the ’04 contest is? We could review it and see where Tinger* was at the 30-minute mark… And remember, Drew was eating his donuts pure and in the way they were meant to be eaten, and not in the adulterated fashion in which Tinger* was consuming his…

  • http://www.evolvingpage.com/ Drew

    ESW, sit down with a dozen krispy kreme doughnuts and a stopwatch. Then we’ll talk.

    Tinger*. Now that’s a nickname that’ll stick.

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