Mmm, I love memes :) If only Grab had a way to make blogging on meme-like common topics even easier! Oh, that's a topic for another day. Anyway, after HellyKwee and others did it, it's high time for me to blog on the topic:

10 Things You Don't Know About Me!

1. I can recite the fifty United States in alphabetical order, from memory, in under fifteen seconds. (I can do so into a tape recorder that will play back the states being articulated successfully when heard at slower speeds.)

2. I went to magic camp for years, studying sleight of hand. My favorite magicians are Penn & Teller.

3. I interviewed "Weird Al" Yankovic when I was 16-years-old, at a concert in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Two years later, I went backstage at a Weird Al concert outside Boston. Al saw me and said: "Lex Friedman, Hershey Pennsylvania!"

4. I once sang on CBS's "The Early Show" on national TV. At 6:30 in the morning.

5. I have a total of 643 MP3's by either They Might Be Giants or Weird Al. Every single one of them is legal.

6. I am colorblind.

7. I wrote five postcards a week to Jay Leno, trying to get a job writing for his show, for one semester while in college. After three months, I got a call from the head of his writing staff, telling me that there was never any turnover because his writers had been with him since day one.

8. My full name is Alexander Curtis Friedman.

9. Until this year, I ate no fruits or vegetables with the following exceptions: Apples, bananas, corn on the cob, artichoke leaves (not hearts), and French Fries. This year, I have expanded my palette -- or, at least, am working on doing so -- to include lettuce, carrots, oranges, tangerines, grapes, strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, cherries, tomatoes, string beans, plums, potatoes, and more.

10. I write oodles of songs for the keyboard, music and lyrics, and sing them only for myself, my dog, and my wife.

11. One of the above ten items is a blatant lie.