1. Although I've received dozens of screen credits on big budget studio movies for my work as a Marvel employee, the screen credit I'm proudest of is for a low-budget made-for-TV movie romantic comedy few people have seen, where I was credited as a co-writer.

2. Some of my more memorable celebrity encounters include helping Meg Ryan figure out how to use a microwave, firing an intern who fan-girled a little too hard over David Duchovny during an elevator ride we all shared, and personally delivering contraband merchandise to Quentin Tarantino at his house.

3. I am technically a third-degree brown belt in mixed martial arts (back in the day when it was truly a mix of disciplines like karate, tae kwon do, kung fu, etc. instead of just mostly Brazilian jujitsu and cage fighting). I quit just a few weeks short of my black belt test during my senior year in high school because a childhood friend of mine died of bacterial meningitis suddenly, and I had to write her obituary and interview her family for the school paper, which messed me up pretty bad at the time.

4. I once spent the night on Alcatraz, in solitary confinement. I should probably clarify this was during its National Park era and not it's "active federal prison" era.

5. Based on some amateur genealogy on the part of my uncle, it is believed that our family is distantly related to one of the early U.S Presidents. Unfortunately, it's John Tyler and not one of the cool ones.

6. When my wife and I were planning our wedding (a small-ish beach wedding with about 100 guests), my wife's parents were in the middle of an ugly divorce and we briefly had to consider hiring private security because certain family members were seriously threatening to show up uninvited to physically jump/beat up my wife's father.