Brian Devinney

Mandarin Senior High School, University of North Florida

Slave Labor

Gotham Knights

Travel, hiking, a good mystery novel, looking for a new chess partner so I can improve my skills, Utilikilts, rugby, stupid mindless trivia that I will never be able to use unless I get on Jeopardy!, as of late reading true crime novels and, in particular, about serial killers...don't ask me why I don't think I can explain....

Big fan of British hip literature, Dennis Hensly, Elizabeth George

All About Eve, Passion Fish, Class Action, Chicago, Christopher Guest films

jazz...Ella Fitzgerald singing Gershwin, Diana Krall, disco music (when I'm on the treadmill), the well mixed 80s tune that I used to roller skate to as a kid in Clemmons, North Carolina...

Law & Order, old Murder She Wrote reruns, Perry Mason, Will & Grace, Desperate Housewives, Grey's Anatomy, Waking the Dead on BBC America, the Game Show Network but only for the Match Game reruns...

Virgo

I hate it when people ask me to describe myself because I
never know what to say and there never seem to be the right
words...some people like me, some people hate me, some
people wish the ground would open up and swallow me
whole...and frankly I don't care what those people think.

As for what I think, I'm one of those guys who is as comfortable in a t-shirt and jeans (or kilt) as I am in a tux or a Hugo Boss powersuit. was raised by the steeliest of the Steel Magnolias and with a little bit of libation my slight Southern accent becomes a bit more pronounced. And, for the record, the kilt is really more for comfort and style rather than any fashion statement.

I have a definite adventure streak in me which includes my recent trip to Italy (where all of the kilt pictures were taken) where I did eight days of hiking in Tuscany and then branched out on my own for another week and went to Siena, Pisa, and Venice while basing myself in Florence. On the plus side it was good being able to set my own schedule and do what I wanted to do without the encumbrance of planning with someone else (because I am really not a big museum person I learned) but at the same time, I had an amazing experience that I wish I could have shared with someone in person rather than in pictures. I'm looking at New Zealand or Costa Rica as my next conquest...Costa Rica has the rain forest zip lines while New Zealand has bungee jumping. This one will be a tough call...

Surprise me...you never know who I'll be drawn to...or what I'll be wearing at that time...maybe you'll find me in a kilt and you'll just have to wonder what's on underneath...if anything at all...

My only requirement is that you have to be able to laugh at yourself and can't take life too seriously. My motto has always been that life is an adventure that is meant to be lived. Take the risk and dive in...then again, isn't that what happened when I thought it was a good idea to have birds crawl all over me...hmmm...I might have to rethink that one....