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As Featured in the New York Times

A little bit of spotlight is shining into my basement this morning, thanks to this article about my pad on nytoday.com, an offshoot of the New York Times site.

The article itself is a bit weird: It's loaded with little embellishments and things that miss the point, but I can see how someone who didn't know me well could come to those conclusions. For instance, I don't actively collect action figures, but I never throw anything away so I’ve found myself owning a bunch after years of getting a kick out of them. (By the way, I only have a couple dozen, not a couple hundred.) And I’m not all that zealous about home improvement, either. I painted my bathroom after two years of procrastinating about the day-long project. It also makes me seem really, really gay, but I guess I am. Whatever. It's a nice, flattering article, even though it features a disturbingly unflattering picture of me in the photo slideshow.

So check it out and see how splashy life a shoe-string budget can really be.