WHAT ABOUT BOB?

In the grand tradition of Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Bob Dobbs, Bob Barker, Bob Denver, Silent Bob, Bob Saget, Bob Hurley, Bob Ross, Bob the Builder and SpongeBob...



1. I was conceived the night my mom lost her virginity at 16. (Or so she tells me.)

2. After my 1st report card in 4th grade I got moved up to 5th grade. (A year later I rejoined the kids who were my age because the older kids in my new grade were making life miserable for me.)

3. I was so incredibly shy and timid with the opposite sex that I didn't kiss a girl until a month before my 18th birthday. (Where have you gone Kim Ferrell?)

4. One of my many roommates at UCLA was a butler at the Playboy Mansion, which led to my only visit to Hef's place—a Sunday morning tour of the place when it was eerily quiet and utterly devoid of naked bunnies.

5. Before I hitchhiked from Boston to LA when I was 23—minus a bus ride from NYC to Atlantic City at the beginning of the trip—I had never hitchhiked in my life.

6. My 1st job after college was driving a limo for a woman in Brentwood. (No, I never picked up O.J. But I did get propositioned during a debauched sweet 16 party by the birthday girl and one of her friends.)

7. I didn't do any pre-trip training before I rode over 3,000 miles during my mountain bike adventure from LA to Boston when I was 25.

8. I've been asked to be in 10 weddings. (And no less than 6 of those weddings ended in divorce. Damn. Not a good track record.)

9. I missed out on being the best man in my brother's 1st wedding because I couldn't get to Maui in time. (I'd just climbed to the top of Mt. Rainier for an article I wrote that ran in SportStyle magazine.)

10. I've appeared on 3 game shows in 3 different decades. (The Gong Show in the '70s, Family Feud in the '80s and Quiz Kids Challenge in the '90s.)

11. I once accidentally hung up on Jean-Claude Van Damme 3 times while trying to figure out my roommate's speaker phone during an interview for an Italian magazine.

12. In the early '90s I co-wrote a screenplay with a rapper named Shock G, who insisted we write a role for his good friend and fellow member of the hip-hop group Digital Underground, the soon-to-be-legendary Tupac Shakur.

13. I am the antithesis of a triskaidekaphobic. (Okay, so maybe you already knew this about me.)