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38, a Troper who lives in Pittsburgh, but born in Toledo Ohio because someone had to be. When not on TV Tropes I'm busy with my wife and three kidlets.

I came to TV Tropes when a friend on Livejournal (I'm Rufus Honker IV there) complained that it was sucking up so much of his time. The first thing I looked up was something that had long bugged me about kid's shows - shows where a character thinks his birthday is forgotten. To my total shock, there it was: Forgotten Birthday. I've been a convert ever since.

I love movies, books and some TV. TV shows are far Better on DVD - I prefer my information through a fire hose rather than trickled week by week. I don't really closely follow (but don't have any problems with) Anime, comic books, or fanfiction.

My favorite genre is Science Fiction. I prefer the hard end of Mohs Scale of Science Fiction Hardness. A story set on a spaceship does not a scifi story make. I'm also a huge fan of Apocalyptic Fiction - I even have a rarely-updated-these-days website

about it - but I don't follow it as much as I used to. Having kids makes the idea of scrounging for necessities rather sour.

Yes, I know my name has "muggle" in it. Yes, I was a big fan of Harry Potter back in the day. The series is over now (the movies are nice, but story's over, folks!), and I've moved on - but the name remains.*

While I'm not really into Fan Fiction, I adore Wild Mass Guessing. Just little ideas about a piece of fiction are far more interesting to me than fleshing out a full story.

I got yelled at a few times for not running new tropes through YKTTW first, and I do now - but I find it annoying because more often than not when I do no one comments at all on them, positive or negative.

I miss Troper Tales, but I see why it had to go.

The moment I finish reading/watching a work, I:

Read the Wikipedia entry on it.
Follow the link to the Internet Movie Database entry (not for books, obviously) and read that (Primarily Trivia and Goofs).
Read/Create the TV Tropes entry and do any editing/adding that needs to be done.

I have started the pages for the following Tropes:

Blindfolded Trip
Cartoon Juggling
Conveniently Close Planet (My baby!)
Hyper-Focused Crowd
Inappropriate Speak And Spell
Low Angle Empty World Shot (That's my daughter in the pictures, I took them.)
Misplaced Names Poster
Overly Cool Play Space (I can't believe it hadn't been mentioned on here before!)
Pottery Barn Poor
Selling The Show (I recognize its importance, but get tired of endless production praise on DVDs)
Who's Watching The Store?

And thank you to everyone who has gone on to work on those pages. Each change makes me proud.

The following Useful Notes pages:

Mensa (I've been a member since I was 10.)
Toledo, Ohio (Born there.)

Created the pages for the following works:

Comics

The Pitt

Documentaries

9/11

Film

28 Days
Abduction
Alien vs. Predator (I moved all the movie examples from the main page, really.)
The Flight of the Phoenix (The films, which have since been split into two pages)
Jack Reacher
Millennium
Poseidon
Repeaters
Striking Distance
Sudden Death
Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann
Trancers
Windtalkers

Literature

Live Action TV

Revolution

Toys

Bella Dancerella (I was stuck on the couch with a fractured kneecap when my daughter started watching it, I had to do something!)

Video Games

Robot Odyssey

Western Animation

The Dot And The Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics (My favorite quote of all time is from this.)
Peppa Pig (With the help of my daughter!)

Tropes which apply to my life.

Almighty Janitor: I'm a front desk attendant with a genius-level IQ. While my physical collar may be white, trust me it's blue.
Cursed with Awesome: I'm tall. Everyone wishes they were tall - trust me, you don't.
Deadpan Snarker: I usually keep a tight lid on it, but it can creep out.
Doting Parent: Three kidlets! Love 'em!
The Eighties and The Nineties. They're my generation. Started elementary school in 1979, graduated from high school in 1992. Got married in 1999.

My favorite tropes to follow:

Movies filmed near me

Abduction filmed right in front of my workplace. Sadly I work nights and only got to see them set up.
The Dark Knight Rises also filmed in front of my workplace. Again I only got to see them set up, but I got some great pictures of the Gotham SWAT vehicles. As I left work, a Gotham Police car was behind me at a stop light. I had fun pretending I was about to be pulled over by the Gotham Police.
Jack Reacher was filming at a house two blocks from my house!!! (Around the corner from my in-laws!) I was so excited! Sadly the only part I could tell was the house was when the SWAT team kicks the door in at the beginning of the movie. You can see the awning outside as the SWAT team enters. Still - I've taken my kids trick-or-treating at that house!