I was very good at sitting. But I just read so much research about how horrible sitting is for you. It's like, it's really bad. It's like Paula-Deen-glazed-bacon-doughnut bad. So I now move around as much as possible.

Jacobs is the author of The Two Kings: Elvis and Jesus (1994) an irreverent comedic comparison of Elvis Presley and Jesus; and America Off-Line (1996). He is the editor at large for Esquire and previously worked for the Antioch Daily Ledger and Entertainment Weekly. He wrote about it in his humorous book The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World (2004).

J. Arnold Stephen Jacobs Jr.