Since Steve Sucks - Introducing: Kent

Editor's Note: Since Steve failed to be as consistently creative as once thought, I had to beg my old friend Kent to become a contributor to the blog. Actually...he begged me. So I finally relented. Kent and I go way back....all the way to little league, when he played on the shitty team, and my team beat his team 33-9. We became friends in high school, where we shared interests in music, not drinking, and not getting laid.

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Since Mark is apparently unable to update his blog frequently enough, he has recruited me to be a Guest Columnist. Ok, actually I begged to be included, since I'm the proud owner of two failed blogs that *I* didn't update frequently enough, and this blog actually has "readers". So, although I won't drink up all the Hennessey ya got on your shelf (I prefer Courvoisier), please let me introduce myself.

My name is Kentie. (Pronounced with the "entie". Ok, enough Humpty Dance
shout-outs.) I'm 26, and I live in Cleveland. In some ways, I'm kind of like Mark. Mark has two sides of his personality. There's his nerdy side, where he spews forth baseball statistics and movie quotes like they're going out of style. But then there's his cool side, where he goes out and drinks and socializes with his well-adjusted friends. Well, I'm Mark's nerdy side.

I mean, don't get me wrong, I do cool things like drink and get laid. I just look really nerdy when I do them.

I can't help it. I was an only child, so I read nerdy books and played nerdy video games a lot. I went to a nerdy high school (from which Mark escaped just in time) and a nerdy college, where I joined a nerdy fraternity. I work at for a nerdy company where I research nerdy topics all day. And at the end of my day, I go home to... well, actually, my girlfriend is pretty cool. But even she can't stop my juggernaut of nerddom sometimes.

(Note to self: make sure Mark codes those links to open in a new window. Otherwise, there's no way anybody will still be reading this.)

If you want to know anything else about me (because you certainly haven't learned enough yet), you can check out my Friendster profile. It's useful for seeing what I was into, you know, two years ago when I made the friggin' thing. You can also see all eight of my friends, five of whom I haven't talked to in over a year, and only one of whom was nice enough to write a semi-coherent and error-filled testimonial.

Sorry if I seem bitter, but I do live in the city that produced Harvey Pekar.

Ok, I'll get on with my 5 Areas of Expertise and leave you alone. For now.

1. Music (post-1977)
2. IQ tests/logic problems
3. Family Guy quotes
4. Skepticism
5. Console video games (1985-1994)

Until next time,
---K