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8. I got scammed by two guys on a beautiful day in NYC. They managed to distract me enough to get about $60 from me. I later read about how this particular scam snared a lot more folks as well. I blame the weather.

9. I believe Bigfoot and extra-terrestrial life is extremely possible, but I'm not holding my breath. Note to self: see #8 above

10. The first time I was ever in a major motion picture (Two If By Sea), I had the FIRST line, in the FIRST scene, being shot on the FIRST day of filming of the ENTIRE project. I had to deliver that line to Yaphet Kotto. I was a little nervous. On a side note, the Director of Photography for that film was Andrew Lesnie. He later went on to be the D.P. For Peter Jackson and the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, winning an Oscar. So he's doin' WAY better than me right now.

11. I almost died in Mexico. Somewhere down the line, I drank the water accidentally. I got so dehydrated I got up to go to the bathroom and couldn't lift my hand to grab the door knob, so I kept bumping into the door, not understanding why it wouldn't open. A little later I woke up lying in a booth in the restaurant. They were kind enough to take me to the hospital. I don't want to give away the ending, but I lived.

12. When I was a teenager, I made my own guitar out of wood scraps. I would pretend to be in a rock band upstairs in my room and air play to all sorts of music. One time, when no one else was home, I was rockin' out and decided to go downstairs to refuel my rock engine with some rockin' Pepsi and tripped over the extra long neck of my homemade guitar falling down a flight of about 24 stairs. Had I died that day, they would have found my body crumpled in a heap at the bottom of the stairs, clutching my poorly made guitar, dressed as David Lee Roth from his Diver Down days. No one but my dog (and now you) has ever known about that.