Eight things you neither knew nor cared about

I've been tagged by Paul at Paul Up Late to reveal eight things about myself that nobody in the Wide Wide World of Web knows. It's pretty hard, not because my life is such an open book, but because my life is such a long, dull, boring book. I think if my life were a book, it'd be an owners manual for a complicated stereo system that's been broken since 1997.

But I have to write something, so here goes...

1. I don't own any porn. No books, no magazines, no DVDs. I don't even have any stored on my computer - the closest I get are the four fairly chaste images on this blog. I do look at it occasionally on the internet, but I think that if you use it too regularly it corrodes something inside you.

2. Shameful confession #1: I still haven't seen Brokeback Mountain.

3. Shameful confession #2: I have a secret hankering to buy a Kylie Minogue CD. But I don't, partly because it's such a gay cliche, but mostly because I can't see her without being reminded of her 'Locomotion'-era horror perm.

4. On the other hand, I own CDs by Eartha Kitt, Peggy Lee, Shirley Bassey, Abba, St Etienne, The Pet Shop Boys and TWO by Marilyn Monroe. How anyone can look at my CD collection and not immediately know that I'm gay is a mystery.

5. I despise Rob Schneider and all that he stands for.

6. Nobody I know in real life, gay or straight, knows about this blog. At least as far as I can tell.

7. Call me a cynic, but I don't believe in soulmates. I suspect that anyone who claims to have found theirs is merely redefining their soul to match the partner they've got.

8. Shameful confession #3: I have two degrees and an IQ over 150, but I get a huge turn on from really, really dumb men. Providing they're hot, of course ;)

Sadly I don't know anyone to tag with this meme, but if you follow the link back to Paul's blog, there's some interesting stuff going on there. I don't think he's going to be able to resist the demands of readers wanting to know the full story of the "orgasm on the train" episode.