Age: 27
Residence: Rochester.
Occupation: CEO, Crazy Dog T-shirts.
In 30 words or less, describe what you do all day at work: Give the gift of goodlookingness to the people of the world with our fun T-shirts and costumes.
What’s your favorite thing to do outside of work? Travel the world to pick up new T-shirts for my own personal T-shirt collection.
Where do you get your coffee? I don’t drink coffee, but I like Wegmans W Cola.
What’s your adult beverage of choice? Blue Light.
What’s your favorite bar? The Winfield, my favorite neighborhood bar.
Describe your personal style: T-shirt and jeans.
What was the last great meal you had? Had to be the lobster bisque at Remington’s on Merchants Road.
What’s the next movie you want to see? Inception. Is that still out? We (my wife and I) don’t get out to the movies that often. We usually wait to rent movies through Netflix.
What do you DVR? Dexter, True Blood and Ghost Adventures.
What’s the last CD you bought or downloaded? Bob Marley’s Greatest Hits.
Have you ever met a celebrity? I have a T-shirt signed by Chuck Norris. Does that count? Actually, Chuck Norris didn’t even sign it. He wore the T-shirt once and it wept tears of joy that left a stain in the shape of Chuck Norris’ autograph.
What’s your favorite book? I’m a history buff, so pretty much anything World War II related.
What’s in your glove compartment? The typical paperwork and probably some old french fries.
When’s bedtime? After the last customer e-mail is answered, so whenever I fall asleep at the computer!
What do you do for exercise? My wife and I belong to Midtown Fitness.
What one thing — not person or pet — would you save in a fire? My laptop.
What makes you cringe? The feeling you get when you’re eating and you accidentally bite down on the fork.
If you could have dinner with any historical figure, living or dead, who would it be? The Thing, from the movie The Thing. I think we’d have an interesting conversation.
If you could relive one moment, what would it be? My wedding to Crazy Dog T-shirts’ vice president and co-owner Brie Kingston.
Where do you see yourself five years from now? Hopefully Brie and I will be starting a family and buying a new building for Crazy Dog T-shirts right here in Rochester.
More about him
Bill Kingston started Crazy Dog T-shirts as an e-commerce course project at Ithaca College in 2003. After he graduated in 2004 with a bachelor’s degree in business administration, the Crazy Dog T-shirts website was still generating business. So instead of taking a job he landed, he kept filling orders. Two years later, he started leasing space at the company’s current location in Village Gate Square. Since then, he and his team created two spin-off sites, http://Nachomamatees.com and http://Costumesquad.com.
