5 Things

Okay… so I don’t have any cats. I am more of a dog man. I try to keep my online identity fairly compartmentalized, but I thought today I might share a few things in the manner of the oft seen Five Things You Might Not Know About Me meme. Most of you know that I am a Canadian, a graduate student, an avid Mac user, a grappler and strikingly handsome. Here are some things you might not know about me:

1. Straight edge since 1995
2. I am quite an aficionado of the hardcore rap scene, including such eminent composers as Ghostface Killah and Mike Jones. Also, one of my all-time faves is MF DOOM (including Viktor Vaughn, Metal Fingers, DANGERDOOM, King Geedorah and Madvillain)
3. Though I haven’t lived the “thug life” I have slung a lunchbucket as both a union and non-union common labourer in various natural resource and metal related industries
4. Yeah I got tats, you gotta problem with that?
5. My people come from Galicia, an autonomous province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. My great-grandfather came over to Canada during the exodus in the late 19th century. My granpa, born in Canada, spoke Russian until he went to school when he was eight.

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