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5 Things You Don't Know About Brando

All right, so this big “5 things you don’t know about me” blog phenomenon is seriously peaking. Otherwise, I certainly wouldn’t be interested, but since I’m willing to try anything once – and that means aaaanything – I’ll go ahead and let you in on five stupid details most people don’t know about Brando.

1) For one, I once, but no longer, resembled the stereotypical gamer. Many of the people in my current geographical location, and those I work with at Gizmo, don’t know that I was a portly penguin, chewing up chicken wings and other deep friend poultry parts left, right, and center. My average day involved little exercise beyond twiddling a pair of Xbox or PS2 thumbsticks, with my best hope for burning calories becoming a virtual experience, via Tommy Vercetti or the Master Chief. Now, I exercise five days a week and am a lean little bugger. I still game, a helluva lot, but I take forty minutes out of my day to run somewhere.

2) Secondly, I was a major pain in the ass – at times – when I was a kid. I once almost burned down a camping park, and later stole candy for about three months from the same location before being caught. Yeah, I was a reaaal rebel.

3) Third, I once dislocated a guy’s shoulder with a body check. In ice hockey. And, I’m still proud of it.

4) Fourth, I got caught stealing beer out of the back of a pick up truck. My partner in crime dropped a bottle, it made enough noise to wake the dead and decrepit, and about thirty slo-pitch players waddled after us, eventually weeding us out of another friend’s place. Those fine athletes decided not to press charges against two high school hooligans, but I got grounded for a good whole month.

5) Finally, I enjoyed the movie Titanic. In fact, it touched me deeply. There, I said it.

Well, since I broached the topic of exercise, I know evangelical fitness guru Anna Fleet will be interested in boring you all with a rant against gizmos or gaming.  She’s a cool gal, but blaming consoles for kids getting fat…that’s just wrong! Anyhow, I tag you, Ms. Anna Fleet, editor FitnessGear101.com.

Happy Holidays!

 

Published Thursday, December 21, 2006 12:46 PM by Brando
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Anna's Blog said:

I don’t know who put the coal in Brando’s stocking, but it seems I’ve been tagged by the little techie...
December 21, 2006 12:00 PM
 

Nancy said:

Nice info Brando, you trouble maker!
December 21, 2006 4:02 PM
 

cK said:

Oh ... and here I thought I had things to hide.
Way to bust up dude's shoulder B-man. Everything else, I can let that slide.  Titanic was cool too. Especially when that dude fell from the vertical demise and clipped that rail.  OH YEAH!!  And when that smoke stacked smoked that dude off the noggin.  That movie was great. What were we talking about again ??
January 2, 2007 1:37 AM
 

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About Brando

Brando's been gaming a long time. From Atari to NES to Genesis to, sigh, Game Gear, to PC to N64 to PS1 to Xbox to PS2 to Xbox 360, he's wasted a lot of time. But, isn't that the meaning of life?