Underdog Seeking the Meaning of Life in the World's Outlandish Competitions

Though young, Joshua Davis has accumulated a lifetime of failures. In grade school, he electrocuted himself while trying to construct a fully operational replica of the USS Kitty Hawk in his bathtub. In high school, he started a rock band and at the first and only performance forgot the lyrics of the band's one song; the group disbanded. After college, Davis directed a feature-length film about a group of friends living in northern California; the movie was bought by a shady distribution company in Nicaragua. The plan: Recoup the investment by showing the indie film on Panamanian buses, The distributor soon declared bankruptcy, never paid for film, and Davis went to work as a data entry clerk at the phone company. The Underdog is his first book. In the course of writing it, he snuck into Iraq to cover the war for Wired magazine, for which he is now a contributing editor. He lives in San Francisco with his wife, Tara. Check out the author's website at www.joshuadavis.net From the Hardcover edition.Davis, Joshua is the author of 'Underdog Seeking the Meaning of Life in the World's Outlandish Competitions', published 2006 under ISBN 9780345476593 and ISBN 034547659X.