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Because a friend asked, the assignment was to provide six weird/things/habits about ourself. So we shall fulfill said assignment. In doing this, we're shocked at the amount of times the word "believe" appears. Strange, this word.

1. We get sad when pro athletes die. Real sad. Well, we get said when anyone dies, especially when we're on the verge of finding out Lisa dies on the Six Feet Under. We get sad because we are petrified of losing the people we love. Doesn't everyone? We just tend to obsess, is all.

2. We say we here because we have this thing about getting all Tyra me me me I I I and we think calling attention to ourselves too much isn't a good thing. Our dear friend Mike once taught us that. Not so much with the Is. A good lesson.

3. We f*cking love hip hop. And because of the XM, we're introducing ourselves to guys like Big Daddy Kane and KRS-One and others, and it's expanding our musical catalog even more, which is always a good thing. Plus, we know a lot of Snoop Dogg lyrics. "So bowdown to the bow-wow and bow-wow yippy-yo you can't steal my flow. My sh*t is dope original now ya know can't no hood f*ck with death rizzow." Word.

4. We also f*cking love country, and we don't know why we're cussing so much, either. We don't mean the country with the I shot my dog 'cause my woman left me for the better lookin' trucker country. We mean country with heart, which much of it has. We discovered Cash this summer -- yes, right around the same time the movie came out. But Cash added something to us. It's hard to explain. Johnny Cash and Old Man Snap. We're kindred spirits.

5. Speaking of, we believe in kindred spirits. We believe, strongly, that things happen for a reason and the people we meet, even the assholes, have a purpose. We believe our current crop of friends are the most incredible people we have ever met. They are writers and lawyers and accountants and teachers and writers and writers and writers and singers and performers and designers and writers. They kick ass.

6. We believe something big is going to happen soon. We're trying not to be arrogant about it, but for the first time in almost 31 years, we feel like we're home. And this terrifies us because we have always -- always -- lived knowing the other shoe drops. Always. But this time, we're a little bit letting it ride, and we're more than OK with that.

* We now return to our regularly scheduled programming and Scarlett references.