Tagged: 16 Things.

I was tagged by both say hi to eunice and john curley on flickr to participate in the '16 Things About You' challenge. It was rough deciding which intimacies to divulge, but here you are...

1. I come from circus blood. My great grandparents owned the Downie Bros. Circus, and had my British ancestors not gambled and lost it in ruin and shame, I might be being blown out of canon or walking in a tutu on high wire somewhere right now.

2. As a young girl, I used to attend Art Linkletter's School of Tap & Dance. In a group performance of the traditional Hawaiian hula dance, my parents photographed me for future humiliation dancing with my arms swaying gracefully to the left, as everyone else's swayed much more gracefully to the right.

3. For 15 years, I worked in advertising as an art buyer and director of creative services, but I have recently given up the ever glamorous ad land for the blogging world. I am a design blogger. Silly word, but that is now my profession of choice. I sometimes work in my pajamas or from bed, and it is quite pleasant.

4. I dislike parades, clowns and musicals, not necessarily in that order.

5. I am a "valley girl". Like, for sure. I hail from the San Fernando Valley, in Los Angeles, but have lived in San Francisco for fourteen lovely years. I do not intend to go back.

6. I once did a Cold Power washing detergent TV commercial at the age of five. Ralph Nader ending up declaring Cold Power wasn't 'germ proof' as was stated in the commercial, and it was ripped from the airwaves, thereby diminishing any future residuals. It did, however, pay for my meager college education.

7. In the eighties, I used to sneak backstage at concerts, like Elvis Costello, Blondie and Joe Jackson, pretending to be a British journalist. Let me assure you, faking a British accent for several hours gets really old.

8. My favorite film of all time is Breakfast at Tiffany's. My favorite novel is Catcher in the Rye.

9. Once when my flight had been delayed, I made love with my then fiance, in the back seat of his vintage Porsche 911, underneath the protection of his car cover, in the Oakland Airport parking lot. We did not eventually marry.

10. I really don't have big feet, they just look that way in these shoes, which are a size 8-1/2, but I love them because they feel like slippers and wear them anyway. Speaking of feet, the right one has two pins in it from a break in 2005, when I fell off a curb in high heels. Another reason I love these shoes.

11. I have a star picked out that I am certain is my deceased, beloved dog Cooper. We have regular evening chats.

12. I live in San Francisco's legendary newspaper man Herb Caen's old apartment. Every time I take a bath in the big claw foot tub, I wonder if he ever wrote his column from there. Is that gross?

13. I think mayonnaise is the nectar of the gods.

14. I have mean crushes on Jon Stewart, Clive Owen, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Adrian Brody. Go figure.

15. I simply despise those damn stickers they put on fruits and vegetables. Upon entering my home they are discarded post haste. They are completely and totally aesthetically unappealing.

16. I haven't owned a television set for about two and half years now and I highly recommend it. However, that obsession has been replaced by traipsing around flickr most days and nights, so there you have it.