It occurs to me that I've written several posts on this blog without ever properly introducing myself. So:
I am Mitchell. Welcome to my internet home. This is an intermittently updated blog about popular culture, notably books. My current ambition is to make it a regular reading log in which I check in at least twice a week about what I've been reading and what I plan to read in the near future.
In the physical world, I live with my wife, Jamie, and our two cats in an apartment in Northeast Portland. I currently play with flour and sugar for a living; my future career goals include freelance writing and copy editing.
The title of my blog comes from a passage in P. G. Wodehouse's novel Right Ho, Jeeves, in which a timid, hapless gentlemen accidentally gets very drunk on whiskey and goes on about how great it feels: "'I would be the last to deny that it tunes up the system. I could bite a tiger.... Did I say I could bite a tiger?... Make it two tigers. I could chew holes in a steel door.'" That's roughly the tone of ridiculous bravado that I like to keep in the front of my mind when I write.
Nora Charles would have been amused to see that I was mentioned "first on the billing". She probably would've wrinkled her nose at Nick for effect.
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