October 13, 2004
Sort of like the Friday Fives...
From TSO
Name THREE of your...
1. Pet Peeves: Sideways baseball hats, conversational writing, animal rights activists
2. Favorite Sounds: the wind in aspens, the fog horn in San Francisco in the middle of the night, the harpsichord.
3. Biggest Fears: being attacked by a shark (a crazy fear that never hits me in the ocean, only in swimming pools, even though I know the impossibility - something that goes back to my competitive swimming days), Kenny G, Canada.
4. Biggest Challenges: remembering the essential humanity of animal rights activists, drawing hands well, doing laundry without complaining.
5. Favorite Department Stores: Harrod's, Nordstrom, that's about it.
6. Most Used Words: dirty, commie, rat.
7. Favorite Pizza Toppings: pepperoni, sausage, mushrooms.
8. Favorite Cartoon Characters: I am changing this one to comic strip characters: Krazy Kat, the Katzenjammer Kids, Pogo.
9. Movies Recently Watched: The Triplets of Belleville, 8 1/2, Gaslight.
10. Favorite Fruits & Vegetables: cardoni, Bartlett pears, cavolo nero.
I thought Nathan Lane was more of a legume. :D
Posted by: DN at October 18, 2004 12:25 AM1-Loud rap music, rap music at a medium volume, quiet rap music.
2-The trumpet, the harp, kids laughing.
3-A skilled logician will prove that I don't really exist, Johnny Nuance wins the election, physical problems keep me from playing my horn.
4-Keeping even emotional keel, not being judgmental, hitting the breaking ball.
5-I hate dept. stores.
6-Words spoken or words thought?
7-Black olives, tuna..can't think of another.
8-Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, Andrew Sullivan.
9-Hmmm...I can't names any more (should be under #3). Maltese Falcon; another Greenstreet/Lorre movie where he plays a police investigator who, after being forced into retirement, commits the "perfect" crime; Naked Gun 2 1/2-The Smell of Fear.
10-Nathan Lane, Claude Rains, K. D. Lang.
Posted by: John Salmon at October 16, 2004 10:08 PM1. People who spit on the pavement, dogs, Euroscepticism.
2. Jew's harp, cat's meow, baby's laugh.
3. President Kerry, mental deterioration, Venice sinking.
4. Ignoring frivolous questionnaires, getting up early, repairing my bicycle's gears.
5. Fortnum & Mason, John Lewis, Selfridges.
6. Check, call, raise.
7. Tuna, egg, spinach.
8. Uncle Scrooge, Homer Simpson, Mojo Jojo.
9. "Paris, Texas", "The Gospel According to St Matthew", "The Insider".
10. Australian razzlequat, cherimoya, strawberry.