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Adventurer Profile: Nathaniel Friedman Adventurer Profile, cori ready, FreeDarko, Nathaniel Friedman, the adventure school

In honor of yesterday’s NBA All-Star Game, our adventurer today is noted sportswriter Nathaniel Friedman. He is the main contributor to the blog, FreeDarko, an entertaining analysis of all things NBA. Nathaniel or Friend-of-Adventure-Friedman as we call him here in Adventureville has authored (with other FreeDarko contributers) two books; 2008′s  FreeDarko Presents… The Macrophenomenal Pro Basketball Almanac and his latest work, FreeDarko Presents: The Undisputed Guide to Pro Basketball History, released in November 2010. As we have had e-commerce on the brain around here, let me just point out that team FreeDarko is selling stunning prints from the latest book here. Personally, I think the prints would make a great gift for the basketball lover in your life or you could even hang one in the room of an infant you would like to become a basketball lover/player.

Get to know Nathaniel below as we ask him the usual questions, or if you want to get to know him in real life, make sure to head down to this FreeDarko event this week in San Francisco in support of the new book.

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Rockit Room
406 Clement Street, San Francisco, CA
7:00PM

Shoals (Friedman’s pen name), Tom Ziller and Eric Freeman come together for a panel, moderated by McSweeney’s Eli Horrowitz and sponsored by Green Apple Books.

1. What skill do you want to learn?
I’ve always wanted to be able to play the piano.

2 Food and drink you don’t want to live without?
Carbonara and coffee. Though never together.

3 The scariest thing you can think of ?
Being buried alive.

4 Your favorite party supply?
Streamers!

5 Your favorite book of the moment?
The Invention of Murder by Judith Flanders. I wish I could buy it in America.

6 Describe your dream party place.
A house by the ocean, but without any real beach.

7 What is the evil version of you like?
A know-it-all who is cruel because it’s easy to be.

8 What gives you confidence?
Finding out that my writing has changed the way people see the world.

9 Name four essential elements of a good party.
-Good music
-You have to be able to hear the person next to you, and across from you
-Jews
-Cheap beer

10 What do you appreciate most about a party host?

When you can’t differentiate him/her from other guests.

11 Favorite adventure supply?
Google maps.

12 Describe the best party you ever a ended.
Probably something that happened in my twenties that wasn’t nearly as fun at the time. Or my wedding.

13 Hotel room or campsite?
Hotel room. I’d take a hotel room over “home”.

14 Do you have a style icon?
Young Bill Bradley.

15 Where is your next adventure destination?
I am very tempted to say that I treat every day as an adventure. If that doesn’t work, I have to see the doctor twice this week.
16 if you could teach a class about anything in the world ever, what would you teach?
I would like to teach a fiction workshop, even though I can’t write fiction.

17 What is your motto?
Something that wouldn’t sound right unless Barbara Stanwyck said it.

18 What is your spirit animal?
A medium-sized shark.

P.S. Happy President’s Day, I hope you are not working and in fact BBQing in honor of Obama or some other president that tickles your fancy.

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