Ric Meyers - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I'm a writer/performer/consultant guy who served as King at Medieval Times, is Santa every Xmas season at a corporate event or private party near you, and also serves as a professor at the University of Bridgeport's Martial Arts Studies Department -- while also contributing columns to such mags as Asian Cult Cinema and Inside Kung-fu. There's loads of other stuff too, like more than a dozen books (fiction & nonfiction) that've been published (by Dell, Warner, and others), TV shows I've been a talking head on (A&E, Discovery, Starz, & beyond), DVDs I've contributed audio commentaries, cover copy, or liner notes to (you can see me on the "Kung Fu Hustle" DVD), creative consulting for ABC-TV, Sony, DreamWorks, & others, and such interesting/fun gigs as being an editor at Weekly World News. But I'll try to get my website, www.RicPicks.com, running by the end of the decade....

My Interests

Books, magazines, movies, theater, DVD, radio, video, TV, martial arts, fetish, anime, mystery, travel, and all Generation D fun.

I'd like to meet:

All my wench wives, knight pals, radio heads, elves, taichi players, fetish freaks, and media mavens.

Music:

Barenaked Ladies, Beatles, Elvis Costello. Damn Yankees, Dylan, Green Day, Loreena McKennitt, October Project, Oingo Boingo, Roxette, Todd Rundgren, Sugar, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Tubes, 2 Unlimited, Soundtracks.

Movies:

Too many to choose. Anything great from America, Europe, and Asia.

Television:

Rome, Deadwood, Adult Swim, House, The Shield, My Name is Earl, Scrubs, The Office, 30 Rock, Iron Chef, Hell's Kitchen, Boston Legal, The Simpsons, Family Guy, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Battlestar Galactica, Doctor Who, Dancing with the Stars, The Soup.

Books:

Sooooo many. Used to be 5 a week (mysteries alternating with science-fiction). Now about 2 a week (non-fiction, taichi/martial art, entertainment, bios, and anything of interest). Read in bed, on toilet, trains or planes, and listen to audio CDs in cars and on iPhone.

Heroes:

My dad, bro, step-ma, nieces, nephew, near Stephe, far Steve, Rick and Micaela B., Garret, Kate, Tracy, Chenoa, FJ, Jackie, Kreskin, Chris the boo-dry, Orania, Don 'n' Lisa, Jeff & Victoria, M.A.O., the Raub maub, Al Z, the master of remaster, Wossy, Tom dom, and too many others to mention.