Meet the peta2 Staff: Dan

Hometown: Boston, Massachusetts–the Hub of the Universe

Fave bands: Guns N' Roses is the greatest band of all time, period. Actually, exclamation point! Runners-up include The Get Up Kids, The Promise Ring, Propagandhi, NOFX, Against Me!, Refused, The Pixies, Built To Spill, Bright Eyes, Elliott Smith, Kanye West, Lupe Fiasco, Clipse, A Tribe Called Quest, Mos Def, & Talib Kweli (best alliance in hip-hop—way-oh).

About me: I'm the assistant director of peta2—so basically I have the best job in the world. Before that, I ran the KFC campaign; that was like the second-best job in the world. I work a lot, maybe too much, but sometimes on the weekends I do something besides work. And by "do something besides work" I mean "listen to music and play video games all day." I'm completely, totally, 100 percent obsessed with food. One time I made vegan six-meat pizza. Uh huh.

I like: The Red Sox, music, books, Halo, politics, justice, British comedy, documentaries, getting into trouble, and paying people to eat things.

I hate: The Yankees, watching TV, materialism, pettiness, prejudice, apathy, and mushrooms (y'all: they're fungus).

Why you went veg: When I was 16, someone I really respected told me, "Those who need your help the most are those who can do the least to help themselves." I figured that meant animals, and I never looked back.

What's your craziest story from the KFC campaign? OK. So this one time I was doing a demonstration with a Tibetan Buddhist monk. The demo was over, but the monk had somehow locked my keys in my car, so I had to call a tow truck to come open the door. While we were waiting, the monk started putting KFC stickers on all the other cars in the parking lot. I was like, "Um, dude, I don't think that's a good idea," but he just giggled and kept on going. Finally the tow truck shows up, and as tow guy gets out, he points at the monk stickering and yells out, "Hey! That's my sister's car!" True story. Unfortunately.

Who wins: a bear or a shark? In more than 2 feet of water: shark. Otherwise: bear.

Is it true that you once fell off the same roof twice in one night? That's crazy talk.