so, heading out in the big world. enjoy your trip! bon voyage!
manohman, the qotd has been real helpful these past few days. helpful at inspiring fqotds, at least.
fqotd: What's the easiest/fastest way to get on your bad side?
A: constant whining
I have really been slacking on this…
9. Your favorite painters? Georges Seurat, Armando Reveron, JMW Turner, Salvador Dali
10. Your favorite composers or musicians? Ludwig van Beethoven, Henryk Gorecki, Tom Waits
11. Which qualities do you most value in a man? honesty, kindness, awareness
12. Which qualities do you most value in a woman? honesty, kindness, awareness
13. Your favorite virtue? kindness
14. Your favorite occupation? baker
for reference, previous questions/answers are listed below
8. who are your favorite heroines of fiction?Alix, V.I. Warshawski, Medea
7. who are your favorite heroines in real life? Margaret Sanger, Jessica Mitford, Isabel de Castilla
6. who is your favorite characters in history? the first Western 'historian': Herodotus
5. who are your favorite heroes of fiction? brother Francis, Gully Foyle, Fiver, Marcel
4. to which faults you feel most indulgent? those that only damage oneself
3. what is your idea of earthly happiness? to never lose the ones I love
2. where would you like to live? san jose, california
1. what do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? betrayal
a brief discussion of the Proust questionnaire is here
a while back, BrownAmazon was having some horrific nightmares not helping at all, John Wesley "Red Jet" posted the YT link to "Endless Caruso" not a very nice thing to do.
and now, scary David Caruso is back! with the "just sunglasses" edition! enjoy, everyone.
edited 2/21/2007@1514: added CSI: Jim Carrey clip
from Brown Amazon
fqotd: five things you suck at doing
1. anything that requires any *craft* skill: sewing/knitting/painting/drawing/playing music. my hands are useless. compounded by the fact that I really wish I could and envy/admire folks with those skills
2. singing. as they say 'round here: "can't carry a tune in a bucket". I do like singing but quite privately, as to not cause any bleeding eardrums
3. parallel parking. 'nuff said
4. getting things done
5. blowjobs. and not in a good way either. but I'm getting better, I hope
Audio: If you could sing like anyone, living or dead, who would you choose to sound like? Share a song of theirs.
Submitted by aa.
I am more and more convinced that Dan is the most rational person in America. read his response to the flap raised when ex-NBAer Tim Hardaway let it be known that he "hates gays"
here's Dan:
fqotd: who is/are your favorite heroine/heroines of fiction?
A: Alix, V.I. Warshawski, Medea
fqotd: who are your favorite heroines in real life?
A: Margaret Sanger, Jessica Mitford, Isabel de Castilla
fqotd: who are your favorite characters in history?
A: the first Western 'historian': Herodotus
for reference, previous questions/answers are listed below
5. who are your favorite heroes of fiction? brother Francis, Gully Foyle, Fiver, Marcel
4. to which faults you feel most indulgent? those that only damage oneself
3. what is your idea of earthly happiness? to never lose the ones I love
2. where would you like to live? san jose, california
1. what do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? betrayal
taken from Robert Pinksy's anthology of love poems in Slate
BODY, REMEMBER
Body, remember not only how much you were loved,
not only the beds on which you lay,
but also those desires for you
that glowed plainly in the eyes,
and trembled in the voice—and some
chance obstacle made futile.
Now that all of them belong to the past,
it almost seems as if you had yielded
to those desires—how they glowed,
remember, in the eyes gazing at you;
how they trembled in the voice, for you, remember, body.
Constantine Cavafy (1863-1933) in a poem translated from the Greek by Rae Dalven
I know, it's amazon, and it's an evil empire, and so on. but their list of bad Valentine's day gifts is pretty funny.
among other choice offerings:
Jockey Full of Bourbon 