born 22 January 1970

Abraham Olano, Anoeta, Spain, cyclist

Alex Ross, Portland, Oregon, comic book artist

Amin Jensen, Glostrup, Denmark, game show host

Andrew Scott, birthplace unspecified, American TV producer

Brian Gaskill, Honolulu, Hawaii, soap opera actor

George Loving Jackson, Los Angeles, California, actor

Jamie Rama, Detroit, Michigan, illustrator

Kellie Hudson, Pine Bluff, Arkansas, acting teacher

Today’s gang, for me, is kind of an eight-way tie for “meh”-th.

In cases like this, you need to look for tiebreakers. If we go with Most Compellingly Unashamed Mini Biography Of An Unimportant Person, two strong contenders emerge.

Our runner-up, Kellie Hudson, has a lot to recommend her. In her self-authored profile, we learn that she is a) a divorced mother of two children with unfortunate names; b) that she took her own last name, Hudson, from a beloved acting teacher whose own last name is no longer Hudson; c) that “After high school graduation, she auditioned and was accepted into the prestigious ‘The American Acadmey of Dramatic Arts’ [sic]”; d) that the anniversary of her ill-fated marriage is April Fools Day; e) that she deems her employment as an assistant director's nanny upon arrival in Hollywood as worthy of mention; f) that she was Miley Cyrus’s acting teacher when Cyrus won the role of Hannah Montana.

Hard to top, I concede. I’ll quote what I know about Today’s Winner in full:

“George Loving Jackson was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. Raised by a single mother of two, George has experienced more things in this life than the average person living. George was shot five times January 6, 1991 by an jealous ex-girlfriend which he survived. George was homeless for five months living in his car going from house to house in an out of hotels trying survive in LA. He started working for the LA Dodgers in 1985 vending soda, ice cream, pizza, peanuts, for dodger stadium, which he loved doing for 10 baseball seasons. He stopped working there in 1997 to pursue a career in the entertainment business. George was always a singer/rapper in the streets of LA, but when he started in entertainment, he stepped on to the comedy circuit to make a name for himself, which he has done. George has touched many parts of the entertainment industry, acting, casting, producing, managing, publicity, and even promoting club venues.”

So you can see, it’s close, but I’m giving the edge to Mr. Loving Jackson, strictly for one reason. Though I assume that he too was the one who submitted his own life story, he signed the above summation “Danny Pakowski”. I don’t know why, that just strikes me as a deeply awesome alter ego for a man named George Loving Jackson.