Five things you don’t know about me
Ok, this is the third and last time I will try to write this post - the first was interrupted over the weekend, and the 2nd completed-but-deleted. (And in the meantime, many of my prospective tagees have been spoken for.) Anyway, it went something like this. . .
This game is silly and i routinely delete chain emails without reading them, but it is [was] a rainy day. . . and something about this “chain post” game appeals to me. Maybe it’s the chance to obtain interesting new tidbits about my friends tagged herein, assuming I can think of five fresh victims who blog.
- Because the person indirectly responsible for my being tagged is apparently a lady who loves cool James, I have to represent: I acquired and edited LL Cool J’s autobiography, spent a lot of time in limos with him, and once appeared in The Source after being photograhed at a party with him (not pictured: Heavy D, Russell Simmons). As a result of that, I became, for one brief shining moment, a go-to guy in the publishing industry for rap autobiograhies, and subsequently signed “Rev” Run.
- I never ate a hamburger until about 2 years ago. Really. Much of my childhood was spent hoping there would be hotdogs at the barbeque and special-ordering non-apocryphal grilled cheeses at McD’s - which occasionally had to be asked for from strict cashiers as “cheeseburger hold the meat”. In fact, my friends called me Herb, after the mercifully short-lived ad campaign about the only guy in America who’d never eaten a Whopper(tm). Today, I love steak and burgers - but only really really good ones.
- Speaking of restaurants, my favorite in LA isn’t - it’s a taco stand called Yuca’s. Maybe the only taco stand ever to win a James Beard award. If you don’t believe me, the chowhound review — or $1.79 — will definitely convince you.
- I discovered my neighborhood - and Yuca’s for that matter - via a home exchange arranged on the internet with a complete stranger, who has now become a good friend. I think home exchange rocks and have spent a good deal of time looking at it as a niche travel business.
- I am probably the only person you’ll ever meet with a Master’s in Victorian literature who can also adjust the carbeurator and valves of an air-cooled VW (pictured below with my cousin Jarret).
- As a bonus, I can use all of the above in a true sentence: I am often seen driving my ghia to Yuca’s with my friend Nelson, who sometimes gets a burger (yes, they sell burgers there) - though we rarely listen to LL on the way.
Now the hard part. Ok, consider yourselves tagged: Spencer, Cameron, Sean, Goff, and Scott (who can hopefully do it in photos).
December 19th, 2006 09:24
nicely done Greg!
December 19th, 2006 10:46
SHUT UP!!! You do *NOT* know LL Cool J. SHUT UP!!!!!!! I will not believe it until you prove it to me. Name the time and place, and I’ll fly in to see the man in person.
SHUT UP!!!!
December 19th, 2006 14:23
Allow myself to introduce. . . myself (search on “cohn”)
December 19th, 2006 15:38
OMFG… Greg… come ON! Do you still have any power to arrange a meet, wave, crazy girl with a camera who just wants *ONE* pic and promises to only ask him to lick his lips once????
December 19th, 2006 15:46
I might be paraphrasing just a little here but “LL” says on the back dust-jacket, “…I would like to thank The Creator…. Greg Cohn…”
Proof enough for me however… Rae may want to meet him herself just to make sure.
December 19th, 2006 15:48
Don’t call it a comeback, I been here for years!
December 19th, 2006 15:50
Ok, now you’re just toying with me. Careful, I am a mama and I’ll bet I can knock your ass out.
December 19th, 2006 15:53
[MUSIC SFX]
December 19th, 2006 16:55
“Hmm, I don’t think so.”
December 19th, 2006 17:19
I’m a round the way girl… try me.
December 19th, 2006 17:50
No, I think he just didn’t like your comment marc.
December 19th, 2006 18:09
:P
December 19th, 2006 18:13
I wonder if his blog feels “violated”…
December 19th, 2006 18:13
i feel violated
December 19th, 2006 18:15
There were 52 cards, and I met everyone. That story is over…buy my RHYME AIN’T DONE…”
December 19th, 2006 18:17
All that and you only posted the last sentence? Now I know why you have no linkrank.
December 19th, 2006 18:21
it’s all his blog could handle!
December 19th, 2006 18:24
December 19th, 2006 18:29
Well said… looks like a case of premature commentation.
December 19th, 2006 19:25
hahahahahahahahahahaha
December 19th, 2006 20:53
#21 … and my rhyme ain’t done
December 20th, 2006 01:55
if you like home exchange, check out www.itamos.com, a cool new site for free home exchange adds.
December 20th, 2006 08:40
If you want to do a home exchange with LL, try here: http://www.myspace.com/llcoolj
December 23rd, 2006 13:43
I don’t use myspace… facebook, only facebook…
January 2nd, 2007 23:42
i have never, repeat, NEVER, eaten a hamburger at Yuca’s. I am strictly a conchinita pibil and carnitas man, and frankly, I resent the implication. EVERYONE WHO TRULY KNOWS ME knows that I only truly crave In ‘N Out burgers, #1, no sauce, grilled onions, with a Dr. Pepper.
Let the truth be told.
January 3rd, 2007 09:25
come to think of it, you’re not much of a friend either!
just kidding
. let the record stand corrected!