1. What time did you get up this morning?
7:45am.

2. Diamonds or pearls?
Whatever she wants.

3. What was the last film you saw at the cinema?
This is really lame, but it was so long ago, I don’t remember last time I went to the movies.

4. What is your favorite TV show?

Right now, I’m really digging Prison Break, Battlestar Galactica, and of course, Lost.

5. What did you have for breakfast?
A latte from my Tassimo machine.

6. What is your middle name?
“Actually, my name is Austin Powers. Danger is my middle name.”

7. What is your favorite cuisine?
As anyone who has tried to order family-style with me can attest, I am very finicky. I can subsist for weeks on end on a steady diet of pizza and ice cream. Oh wait, I did on my trip to Italy this past summer.

8. What foods do you dislike?
Anything that is moving, has moved, has the texture or consistency of eggplant, has garlic, onions, or fresh vegetables in it.

9. What is your favorite Potato chip?

A toss-up between Terra Chips and those Kettle Chips in the Spicy Thai flavor.

10. What is your favorite CD(s) at the moment?
Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Stadium Arcadium

11. What kind of car do you drive?
Mazda RX-8

12. What is your favorite sandwich?

Pepperblue Steak on Asiago Cheese Foccacia at Panera Bread

13. What characteristics do you despise?
Intolerance. Lack of a sense of humor.

14. Favorite item of clothing?
My Puma driving shoes.

15. If you could go anywhere in the world on vacation, where would you go?
Toss-up right now between the French Riviera and Chianti region of Italy.

16. What color is your bathroom?
White

17. Favorite brand of clothing?
Do I have to have one?

18. Where would you want to retire to?
Somewhere nice and warm with a social life — and WiMAX.

19. Favorite time of day?

Evening. Definitely evening.

20. Where were you born?
In a hospital in Queens, New York.

21. Favorite sport to watch?
Formula 1 racing

22. What type of detergent do you use?
Tide (HE2 type for front-loaders)

23. Coke or Pepsi?
Coke. Although I’ve been enjoying the lemon-Coke whereever I find it.

24. Are you a morning person or night owl?
Night owl.

25. What size shoe do you wear?
10.5 or 11, depends on the shoe

26. Do you have pets?

No, but I wish I had a dog.

27. What did you want to be when you were little?
Older.

28. Favorite Candy Bar?
Don’t like candy. Much more of an ice cream person.

29. What is your best childhood memory?
Hannukah. It’s all about the presents.

30. Different jobs you have had in your life?
Geek, attorney, business development, product manager, graphic designer (for fun, not pay), reporter, blogger.

31 What color underwear are you wearing?
Underwear? Who says I’m wearing underwear?

32. Nicknames?
Scoop

33. Piercing?

No. Yuck.

34. Ever been to Africa?
“Joey, have you ever been to a Turkish prison?” — Capt. Oveur, “Airplane”

35. Ever been toilet papered?
No. Am I missing something good?

36. Love someone so much it made you cry?
Yes. Been there, done that.

37. Been in a car accident?
It wasn’t my fault! Really!

38. Croutons or bacon bits?
Carrots. Just no spinach.

39. Favorite day of the week?
Friday.

40. Favorite restaurant?

A tie: Cafe Andalu, and John Ash & Co.

41. Favorite flower?
See answer to #2.

42. Favorite ice cream?
Coffee. No wait, Cookies n’ Cream. No wait, melone (when in Italy).

43. Disney or Warner Brothers?
Studio Ghibli.

44. Favorite fast food restaurant?
In-N-Out Burger

45. What color is your bedroom carpet?
No carpet in our bedroom!

46. How many times did you fail your driver’s test?
I did fail the driving portion of the test once when I took it as a 17-year old in New York because I didn’t parallel park well on the test (it was performance anxiety). I took it again and passed with flying colors.

47. Which store would you choose to max out your credit card?

My local Porsche dealer.

48. What do you do most often when you are bored?
I write on my blog and read other blogs…

49. Last person you went to dinner with?
My wife Jeannie and Peter McColgan.

50. Ford or Chevy?

Porsche, see answer to #47.

51. What are you listening to right now?
The usual demonic voices in my head, and the sound of the ventilation system.

52. How many tattoos do you have?
None, I’d like to be buried in a Jewish cemetary. Plus that crap hurts! Also, you wind up like Rosanne, who had to remove the tatoo of her ex from her ass when she broke up. No thanks.

53. Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
It depends upon what you mean by the word egg. And by the word first.