About Me
I was born in a small village called Fletching in the south of England. We lived in farm country, so I spent a lot of time around animals. When I was 4 years old, I remember asking my mother why the "chicken" on my plate had the same name as the animal I had seen running around earlier that day, and she explained to me that the one was just a dead version of the other. That was the end of my brief career as a meat-eater and the beginning of a lifelong commitment to help animals, which eventually led me to PETA HQ in Norfolk, Virginia, where I share an apartment with a large cat called Princess Cuteyface. Before coming to PETA, I moved to Rome for a year in order to enrich myself culturally, and to be amongst Italian girls. I also worked for some time at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., where I learned an awful lot about Mycenaean figured amber objects. This knowledge has not been directly helpful to me as an animal rights activist yet, but I haven't given up hope.
Stuff I Like
I like road trips, making songs and videos (some of which you can check out on my YouTube profile), playing pool, watching 24, Buffy, and old episodes of X-Files, and rooting, with a certain blind optimism, for the Skins to go to the Super Bowl. Like most normal people, I have an unhealthy curiosity about the doings of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, the latest antics of Paris Hilton, and the secret life of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' alien baby. I'm also into poetry and ancient languages, but I've been specifically asked not to talk about these things because, apparently, "nobody likes a dork."
Stuff I Don't Like
Turn-offs include cruelty to animals (they made me say that), smooth jazz, and people who talk about money a lot. I also don't like it when people say "utilize" instead of "use." If you do that, please stop. Seriously, it drives me nuts.
My Master Plan
One day, I hope to settle down with comedian/actor Sarah Silverman and raise a family. Sarah doesn't know about this yet, but I've always felt that when you truly love someone, actually meeting them is an irrelevant detail.
