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Gender Male
Industry Communications or Media
Occupation Editor/Writer
Location Massachusetts, United States
Introduction Dan Medeiros is a copy editor and a freelance writer. He has a master's degree in creative writing and has published several short stories and many more columns and articles. He once briefly was both a reader for the literary magazine Ploughshares and a member of Mensa, which is not all it's cracked up to be. Believe me. He has a wife, two dogs, and two cats.
Interests literary fiction, film, humor, animals, politics, food, political animals on film eating humorous food, playing guitar, photography, skepticism, doing things, not doing things, and so on
Favorite Movies Citizen Kane, Rushmore, Annie Hall, The Apartment, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Barry Lyndon, It's a Wonderful Life, various & sundry by, Woody Allen, Billy Wilder, Stanley Kubrick, Wes Anderson, the Coen Brothers, pretty much anything with Alan Alda or Jack Lemmon in it
Favorite Music Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, the Kinks, Frank Sinatra, Frank Zappa, Miles Davis, Medeski Martin & Wood, the Upper Crust, Dizzy Gillespie, Slim Gaillard, Ramones, the theme song to TV's "Match Game"
Favorite Books My Brother Was an Only Child, Infinite Jest, As I Lay Dying, Nine Stories, Winesburg Ohio, The Beggar Maid, Pricksongs and Descants, The Monster At The End of this Book, various and sundry others by, Kurt Vonnegut, Woody Allen, William Faulkner, S.J. Perelman, George Saunders, Flannery O'Connor

If you were a wrestler, what would be your finishing move?

I would use guilt. Make the other wrestlers feel terrible about themselves. In this way, I would quickly become the World Heavyweight Champion.