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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.*

So you want to know more? I wanted Harry to end up with Hermione. I ADORE Hermione in the books - but refuse to accept Emma Watson's version. Watson has yet to prove her full acting chops, but she's no nerd. Still, Harry is with Ginny, it's canon, and it's just a book anyway.

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

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

1. Read the Wikipedia entry on it.
2. Follow the link to the Internet Movie Database entry (not for books, obviously) and read that (Primarily Trivia and Goofs).
3. 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!)
• Inappropriate Speak And Spell
• 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.

And the following Useful Notes page:

• Mensa (I've been a member since I was 10.)

Created the pages for the following works:

Comics

• The Pitt

Literature

• Hull Zero Three
• Manhattan Transfer
• Replay
• Dragon's Egg

Movies

• 28 Days
• Abduction
• Alien vs. Predator (I moved all the movie examples from the main page, really.)
• The Flight of the Phoenix
• Poseidon
• Striking Distance
• Trancers
• Windtalkers

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:

• Cut Lex Luthor a Check
• The Guards Must Be Crazy
• Just Eat Gilligan
• No OSHA Compliance
• Reed Richards Is Useless
• Science Marches On
• Technology Marches On
• Television Is Trying to Kill Us

You may vandalize my page here:

• Aseph-ah-balla nah. -desdendelle

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