This is part two (part one here) in my ongoing investigation into people online who have the same name as I do, but who are not, in fact, me. I will look at them and then consider what my life would be like if I were them. Here’s our second participant:

Ah, this guy. This guy has been my online nemesis for a while. He is (or was) an actor/comedian/writer living in New York, although he appears to have moved to Los Angeles. To pursue his burgeoning career? Possibly. He works, at least part of the time, with the Upright Citizens Brigade. They have a particularly telling quote about him:

[He] has also appeared in a variety of independent films, NPR’s “Leonard Lopate Show”, as well as on NBC’s “Late Night with Conan O’Brien”, and Comedy Central’s “The Upright Citizens Brigade.”

I call him my online nemesis because it’s basically impossible from simple googling to separate me from him. He was originally from the New York region… like me. He has apparently moved to Los Angeles… like me. He worked in theater… like me. He’s a Scorpio, like me. And he has my name… like me. Everything I had, he had too, it seemed. Our lives are apparently interchangeable.

Although, as per the quote above, he’s both been on NPR AND met Conan O’Brien. I’ve been on NPR but have not met Conan O’Brien, so that’s one way we’re different. Let’s just hope I never meet Conan O’Brien.

I traditionally resented him… always cluttering up my vanity searches with his results. I wonder if he felt the same way about me? I wonder if he even knows that I’m out here? I wonder if he knows how much I’m thinking about him tonight?

All in all, I don’t feel any particular need to switch lives with him. I thought by moving to Los Angeles I’d be able to get away from him, but apparently he’s followed me here. Or I’ve followed him.

I wonder if I’ll ever meet him, randomly, at a bar or a friend’s barbecue or something… it will be odd. Especially if he doesn’t know who I am.

UPDATE: Part Three: The Banker