MC

Your real name

Mike Costello

Your location(ish)

Tustin, California - soon to be somewhere in northern Arizona!

Your marriage/family situation

single

Own website (if you have one!)

No

The Interview:

You're a poster in a.a.f - do you actually own a Ferrari or are you just here for the insults?

I still hope to pull it off some day - I'm casing local owners in order to effect a robbery!

What do you do to scratch out a living?

I'm on the dole - my brain's missing a bolt.  In another life I was a Win NT systems admin.

Who would play you in a movie?

Apparently, Jason Alexander <groan>

What is your favourite sport?

It's a tie between football (the American kind) and basketball

Which team/player do you follow?

I follow the Chicago Bears and the Los Angeles Lakers
My heroes from both are Gale Sayers and Magic Johnson

What and where is your favourite Hotel

The Hotel Laguna, Laguna Beach, CA.

What and where is your favourite restaurant or bar?

Restaurant - it's a tie between Portillo's Hot Dogs in Chicago, IL, Commander's Palace in New Orleans, LA., and Kanpai Sushi in Costa Mesa, CA
http://www.portillos.com/portillos/look/
Bar(s) - The Place; Coronal Del Mar, CA and The Tustin Inn; Tustin, CA (because I can play Big Buck Hunter there!)
http://www.itsgames.com/Products/BBH_SC/DEFAULT.htm

Indiana is probably the worst place on earth, but if you're ever stuck there Phil Smidt's is the place to be!  Nobody makes frog legs like Phil Smidt's! http://www.froglegs.com/

Name a few of your favourite books?

"The Stand" - Steven King
"The Deathworld Trilogy" - Harry Harrison
"An Unquiet Mind" - Kay Redfield Jamison
LOTR (all) - J.R.R. Tolkien

Name a few of your favourite films?

Apocalypse Now
2001: A Space Odyssey
Heat
Miracle on 34th Street (the original)

What music do you listen to?

Jazz, blues, metal, electronic - just about everything except country (with the exception of Randy Travis)

Heaven is...?

one Mille Miglia after another, with me in it piloting a 250 TR or a 250 GTO, and Duffin riding shotgun

Hell is...?

having to live for the rest of my life where I live now

Name four people (dead or alive) that you would like to invite to a dinner party.

Angie Everhart, Madame Lalou Bizy-Leroy (she brings the wine), Pablo Escobar, Tommy Chong

If you had to get stranded in one place for the rest of your life (town, city, tropical island, whatever) where would it be?

Japan.

Who would you take with you?

Not a soul.

If you there was one car or bike that you could drive just once, what would it be?

That blue 250 GTO that's in private hands. And I wouldn't give it back.

What is your secret vice?

I like to dance with Mary Jane.

What irritates you most about people?

What doesn't?

Do you know what love is?

Only when I look at my cat.

Is the glass half full, or half empty?

Half empty

What's in the glass?

Johnnie Walker Black, Gold, or Blue - and a splash of Gerolsteiner mineral water

What's the one thing you never leave home without?

My medication.

and finally, complete the following sentence:
"Arguing in newsgroups is like..."

running in the Special Olympics. Even if you win you're still retarded.