The Authentic Eclectic

Ten Things You Don’t Know About Me

The Dillon Empire is not all it seems.

My existential dread at the thought of watching Institute Benjamenta a second time. Photo by author.

I don’t generally bite on prompts, but after this recent piece by The Garrulous Glaswegian, in which she concluded with the Medium summoning spell encouraging yours truly to follow in her footsteps, I decided that on this occasion, I would participate. Here then — after a certain amount of redaction imposed by the Dillon Empire Ministry of Propaganda — are ten things you don’t know about me. Well, perhaps you know some of them, as I daresay my foaming-at-the-mouth rants occupying the darker corners of Medium may have brought them to light in certain cases. Still, if you are masochistic enough to trawl through this selection of Dillon Empire trivia, I hope you glean a few instructive titbits.

1. I’ve never walked out of a film

This won’t come as a surprise, but I’ve never walked out of a cinema mid-film. I’ve come close on a few occasions. The intolerable abyss of unmitigated flatulence that constitute Michael Bay’s Transformers sequels leaps to mind. Also, the only thing that kept me in my seat for Mamma Mia! — a film of eyeball-gouging ghastliness on multiple levels — was the thought of the spectacularly scathing review I would pen, with a clear conscience at having suffered through…