Here's Jonny!

Name:

Jonny G. would be acceptable.

Hometown:

I've never stayed in one place more than three years. I was born on a military base in northern California, and then I moved to a base in Japan and lived in Okinawa for a few years. And then I moved to South Carolina, and then again to several places in wonderful North Cackalacky. I have a love/hate relationship with the south. I don't like the general 'tude below the Mason-Dixie line, but I like the weird mystique of how time moves so slowly around here. I mean, it's annoying when I'm trying to get stuff done, but....

What is your favorite aspect of your job?

I'm a TV production assistant, which is pretty low on the ladder, but I enjoy making myself look super important to people who don't know anything about the television industry. My favorite thing to do is run around pretending to talk to people through my giant headsets. Those headsets are off, to be honest, and I'm not actually talking to anyone. I also like to run around the sets with clipboards, screaming crazy things like, "2 minutes!" and "WHERE'S MY TALENT?!" No one ever has a clue what I'm talking about. I also enjoy eating the food that craft services bring in that's supposed to be only for talent and volunteers. Whatever. Try to stop me, craft services, just try it!

Why did you choose to take Arabic in school?

Let me tell you.... I chose to take Arabic for one reason. Or for one word, really: "slikha." It sounds better spoken than it looks in anglicized type. I heard some lady say it when I was eavesdropping on people's phone conversations, and I thought it was just the most dramatic, sexy word ever, and I thought she was Arabic, so I go to sign up for classes at the beginning of the semester, see they're offering Arabic, and then I go through an entire semester of one of the hardest freaking languages in the world for an English-speaking American, get an A, and then finally look up this word, "slikha," online because we still haven't learned it... and then I find out it's actually Hebrew.

You're throwing a party and using your iPod to DJ. What are the first and last songs on your playlist and why?

I'd have to start off the party with "Teach Me How to Jerk" by Audio Push and slow things down at the end of the night with Kate Bush's "Wuthering Heights." Because I know all the moves to both of those songs.

What is one thing you've done to make the world a better place?

I helped a turtle get across a road once.

Do you have a blog or a website that you'd like to plug?

Any blog I've ever started has ended up being nothing but a chain of complaints about my shopping problems. So no.

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Two things:

1. I always thought it was Kraft services. Like, the Kraft corporation sponsored it and Sandra Bullock and Tom Hanks are sitting around eating easy mac. It would totally be the kind that comes with the pouch too, not that nasty powdered mess.

2. That lady is freaking me out. That would get me to leave a party for sure.