Using a #2 Pencil For This Is Optional
Oh, Internet, I hardly know ye. No, seriously, I don't really know very much about you at all, and yet you know that I have a set of days of the week knickers and that I prefer to watch shows where roses are handed out at the end. I'm feeling that this relationship is a little one-sided, aren't you? You have a lot of dirt on me. So I have come up with---and by this I mean I have TOTALLY STOLEN from Meg at Blogcabin---a game that will help me get to know you better. It's Friday and everyone knows that you don't have to do any real work on Friday, so you totally won't get in trouble with your boss for this, I swear.
Here is what you have to do. You just have to answer five questions. They are easy questions and there is no math required and I will not ask you what color underwear you are wearing, and you can probably do them in ten seconds. And everyone likes answering questions! Right? Or is that just me? I always fill out the "How was your experience?" cards at hotels and restaurants. Sometimes twice.
Anyway, here are your questions. You can be as brief in your answers as you like, or as long-winded. You can dot the "i"s with little hearts if you'd like, too.
1) What are you currently reading? Do you like it enough to tell me to check it out from the library this weekend?
2) If you could eat one food for the rest of your life, what would it be?
3) If no-one would ever know about it and you'd feel no raging guilt or remorse---and also if you could do it without splattering blood on yourself and totally ruining your shoes---who would you remove from the planet forever? (It can't be me. What, you want me crying under my desk all afternoon?)
4) What is your favorite word? And what is your least favorite word?
5) Please describe your hair.
See, those are easy right? Those will take you ten seconds. I will go first, so no-one feels shy.
1) On Beauty by Zadie Smith. So far---and I'm only two pages in---I'd have to go with the very precise literary term known as "eh," which is to be accompanied with a shrug. Also the Lonely Planet Guide to Beijing.
2) Soft-boiled eggs on wholegrain toast with real butter
3) Ashlee Simpson.
4) Brouhaha. Ointment.
5) Often irritating. Ocasionally responsive. Constantly threatened with being chopped off. A color called "French Roast," chosen for precisely that reason.
Now it's your turn. I want to know about you! I promise I won't stalk you if we happen to like the same food or books or something. Also, I promise I won't tell the person you want to remove from the planet that you want to remove them from the planet. Unless it is also Ashlee Simpson! Because then we should maybe give her a heads-up or something. Perhaps if there's a general consensus, she'll just quietly disappear.
Feb 24, 2006
First off, your blog is hilarious---I love it! A friend told me on Wednesday to check out your hilarious Bachelor run-downs... (Don't worry: I don't watch it, either.)
Okay, getting to know ye:
1. I, too, am an editor, and am currently skimming through Strunk & White's "Elements of Style" as a sort of refresher course. Yes, very nerdy of me, I know, but it is at least the beautifully-illustrated edition just published. If you were to ask me what I wish I were reading right now, I would answer "Tobias Smollett's Humphry Clinker"---I have a thing for 18th-century novels.
2. I would go with Chicken Tikka Masala from Bombay Cafe in Cambridge, Mass.
3. I don't disagree with the Ashlee Simpson option, but after the past few years I have to wear my politics on my sleeve and say George W. Bush.
4. Paradigm. C---. (Though I suppose the latter does come in handy during certain moments.)
5. Extremely susceptible to variations in atmospheric humidity/barometic pressure. In other words, during winter months: smooth sailing; during summer months: one long nightmare. Light brown with lighter brown (blonde?) highlights. More responsive in recent years than during dark days of middle school and early high school. Moderately curly, which I am only now (age 28) coming to appreciate, and longer than ever (to delight of boyfriend).
Feb 24, 2006
1) The Life of the World to Come by Kage Baker, about 2 chapters in. Can't tell yet whether it's one of her good ones or one of her so-so ones.
2) sushi
3) Dick Cheney
4) Heiroglyphic. Pus.
5) shiny curly chestnut poodle a-sitting on my head. I've named it Barky.
Feb 24, 2006
1) I'm actually a little embarrassed about this but Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. I haunt an old Half Price books by my house. I have found gold in there ...gold. I have two (well, this is embarrassing too) Stephen King books---the last two of the gunslinger series---waiting for me when I get done with the Harry Potter. I jumped on the old HP bandwagon long after the series was popular and I have never seen any of the movies. I know. The shame.
2) I am a huge fan of Japanese food. So cucumber salad with that wonderful sweet vinegary dressing, a big bowl of miso soup and sushi ...of almost any kind.
3) Sade. I am so glad the 80's are over. If I have to hear "Smooth Operator" in that breathy, toneless, pitchy voice one more time ...
4) Kibosh. Moist.
5) Curly but in places frizzy, utterly thin, natural color of ... brown. Ruled by dictators that live within my bangs, refusing to mend their ways and leave me with normal hair, I often have a butt-cut, not unlike that of creepy thin man Crispin Glover in Charlie's Angels(minus the greasy slicked back look and pointy eyebrows).
Feb 24, 2006
Also hieroglyphic. Which is how I would spell it if it wasn't the end of a VERY LONG week. argh
Feb 24, 2006
1) The Last Templar. It's very reminicent of the DaVinci Code which I loved. You should totally check it out from the library.
2) You mean besides chocolate and dirty martinis?
3) Do I have to limit this to one person? Can I just say... The Bush Administration?
4) Ginormous is my favorite word, and my least favorite is the C-word.
5) It's on my head? It's brownish with blonde highlights. It used to be stick straight and I wore it in a bob, but after I had cancer, it grew back in wavy which totally sucks because I had straight hair for 39 years... I don't know what to do with this wavy mop. :(
Feb 24, 2006
1. What to Expect When You're Expecting. Note: I am not expecting, and I'm not even really expecting to expect. But I do like a good plan because I'm not overly fond of surprises. Especially when they have to do with things like varicose veins and having enemas in front of hot, young medical residents. Sorry, but you'll have to wait for me to check this gem back in before you can enjoy its Fear-Factor-like drawings. And I'm only on gestational week 4.
2. Sourdough bread, Muenster cheese, and green olives
3. Fred Phelps and his hate-filled progeny
4. Favorite word combination: Sippy cup, but only the way Nanny Jo Frost says it on Nanny 911. I imagine you'd say it just like her. Ah, I love the British accent.
Worst word ever: Mucous. Followed closely by: Scalp.
5. Incorrigible. Maniacle. Headstrong.
Feb 24, 2006
I love your blog, so really I wouldn't mind you stalking me.
1) I'm reading way too many books. I have this bad habit of reading more then one at once. So really, I can't tell you.
2) This noodle and meat dish my mother makes. It is totally heaven.
3) Bush Administration. But if it can only be one, my old government partner.
4) Uber or Clearly are my favorites. I hate a lot of the English dictionary.
5) Darkdark blonde/light light brown. Or, you know dirty brown. Wavy, just to the point of almost being curly, and yet it isn't. When you brush it, it becomes a buzz nest of hair. Reason I use a straighting iron now. Also a reason to why I hate it.
Feb 24, 2006
I'm all about answering some memes
1. I'm reading Scientific Management and Financial Management. I do NOT recommend you checking them out. I long to be able to read for myself again.
2. Pizza--it's the perfect food
3. If I didn't like My Name is Earl so much I would say Jaime Pressly, she really gives me the hebee jebees.....um, Paris Hilton
4. Actually the C-word is my favorite word; congealed is not so high on the list
5. My hair is brown, my hair is straight and my hair is mercifully very short.
Feb 24, 2006
Hey, this is NOT a meme! We are all too cool for memes. This is me getting to know you, getting to know all about you. Think of it as.....AN ASSIGNMENT.
Feb 24, 2006
1. Fledgling by Octavia Butler. It's good if you like vampires.
2. Sushi. Someone else took the whole Japanese restaurant menu, and if I can do that, then yeah, add the edamame and the miso soup and the seaweed salad...yum, I'm making myself hungry...but if it's really just one food, then it's the sushi for me!
3. My old landlord. I'd want to get my missing deposit back first, though.
4. Ooh, this one is so hard...I've always been fond of serendipity. And yet, the sound of it bugs me. If you say it over and over again, it just gets annoying. So it's both my favorite, and my least favorite. (Today. I could change my mind tomorrow.)
5. Awful. That one was easy!
Feb 24, 2006
You can steal anything you want from me, up to and including my favourite shoes, if we are the same size (black kitten-heel mules with the cutest little strap and buckle thing -- lovely with jeans...)
1. I'm currently reading 'Cloud Atlas' again, by David Mitchell, and it's brilliant.
2. Probably sushi -- the good, cold sashimi kind of sushi, not that which involves seaweed. And beyond that, fresh sourdough bread with a chunk of really good cheese.
3. George W. Bush or Fred Durst.
4. Bliss. Pelvic.
5. Fresh from the velcro rollers, recently chopped to just below shoulder length, straight as straight can be, and a colour called espresso -- chosen to restore it to my natural shade after a brief fling with highlights. Very, very dark.
Feb 24, 2006
1. Veronica, Mary Gaitskill. Blew my socks off. Can only recommend if you like dark, poetic self-loathing yet possible redemption stuff.
2. Fresh crossiants from a Paris bakery that you get ina sack from the side door at 4 am when you've just come out of a club but the patisserie isn't open yet.
3. Geoge Bush, Dick Cheney, Rumsfeld with one bullet.
4. Moxie. Diarreah (not leastly because I cannot spell it).
5. Dark brown with curl lots of it, but fine-- sad to say I cursed it in my adolescence for not being straight and Nordic blond-- but now, I am very happy with it.
Feb 24, 2006
I've been reading you since a couple of days after you started out -- can't even remember how I got to you, but you had me crying with laughter immediately. I'm in the UK, don't have a telly, and would never watch anything remotely Batcheloresque even if I did -- but I love, love, LOVE Secret Batchelor Tuesdays. I nearly delurked to guffaw at the improbability of being called Travis STORK -- could be straight out of Lemony Snicket, no? -- really, I ask you? But I didn't, so here are my answers.
1. Carter Beats the Devil by Glen David Gold. It is *so* good that I read until my eyes fell out at about 2 am last night, then got ready for work this morning with my nose *still* in it and had to force myself not to sneak it into my workbag and read it all day. Have been toying with the idea of bunking off early just to get back to it...
2. Oats! Anything with oats in -- yum. Or apples. Not crappy supermarket apples, but real ones with funny lumps on the skin that slowly release a dozen different flavours in your mouth.
3. A former colleague, the thought of whom still utterly enrages me even though I haven't had to work with her for over two years now. I would happily push her off a roof or feed her to lions.
4. Two favourite phrases: "utterly bonkers" and "posh totty", which I use at all opportunities; not sure I have a least favourite word.
5. Beautifully cut by my very flirty (and straight) hairdresser Dan, who calls my white hairs "ash blonde" yet expertly covers it nonetheless. Dark blonde; very short at the back and round the ears (I HATE it over my ears), longer on top, ridiculously thick.
Feb 24, 2006
At last, someone as curious about their readers as I am about mine! Would that I could know what everyone is thinking at all times.
1. Sad to say, I haven't started a new book since I finished Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides. Unless you count reading the introdution to The Working Poor: Invisible in America. It looks wonderful, but I'm not quite ready to be depressed out of my mind. Go read Middlesex instead.
2. Mexican. Ohmygod, I would never tire of it. It doesn't even have to be high quality Mexican; Chipotle will do.
3. So many choices! Any blond on the cover of US Weekly, a la Brittney, Ashlee, Jessica, Hillary. The GWB administration ranks a close second. No, wait, RICK SANTORUM. Yes, that's it. Rick and his crazy brand of super-conservative Catholicism need to be offed. (Please note, I am Catholic and am offended/embarrassed by much of what comes out of his mouth. I hope no one is currently reading his book.)
4. F***, in all of its glorious forms, noun, verb, adjective, adverb. "Nucular."
5. Strawberry blonde and never seen a drop of chemicals. Currently cut in a chin-length bob. Thick, fine, mostly straight, all of which means my stylist spends a lot of time trying to texturize it.
Feb 24, 2006
1) A number of books having to do with research for my honors thesis. I happen to find them incredibly interesting, but if you're not interested in immigration and education reform, you probably won't like them. So I'll recommend anything by Luis Alberto Urrea, as he wrote one of the books I just finished. I would never recommend the book I read (too horrifying) but his novel, The Hummingbird's Daughter, is supposed to be fabulous and he's a very impacting writer. It's on my wishlist.
2) A type of food or one food ITEM? I would die if I had to eat one food item for the rest of my life. I would, like Irony Queen up there, have to go with Mexican as a type.
3) Who would I get rid of? So. Easy. Jennifer Love Hewitt.
4) My favorite word, also, is "f*ck" which is so...multi-faceted. And my LEAST favorite word...either pus or maggot.
5) Brown with natural red highlights from the sun and chlorine in the pool...Down to the middle of my back, with little braids done in here and there. Hippie hair.
Now you know everything important.
Feb 24, 2006
Love, love, LOVE your blog Holly!! If you're ever in Dallas, we'll have to go play at some of the fun places around here! Cheers!
1) I just started Night (Oprah's book club selection) so I can't really say if it's "check out" worthy--I'll let ya know...but I must confess I also am reading current issue of US Weekly.
2) Peanut butter
3) Paris Hilton
4) fav: marmalade
hate: panties
5) Blonde highlights on top, darker brown underneath...a little dry at the moment which is torturing my hair but I digress. Anyway, the style is a lot like Sarah Chalke's hair from the TV show, Scrubs.
Feb 24, 2006
1. the ongoing moment by geoff dyer.
2. gus' half sour dill pickles, delancey street NYC.
3. the woman who played the wife of that supposedly-universally-beloved big nosed italian guy on that show about the nosy parents who fight all the time and how the wife would never have sex with the big-nosed italian guy who looks like zach braff all stretched out and old. You know, the one in all the albertsons commercials and who won all those emmys. I hate that bitch. I'm not a violent person but she makes me want to peel her skin off and then pour acid on her.
4.
Feb 24, 2006
oops, I was getting a little excited there.
4. um, I like old fashioned words that are spelled funny. All of them. I hate words that people in the internet industry use. like bandwidth. if I ever hear another asshole ask how much bandwidth some other asshole has I am going to explode.
5. I always bring my hairdresser pictures of my favorite street urchins and say do me up like that, bee-yotch.
Feb 24, 2006
1. I just started The Liars' Club by Mary Karr. So far, so good, but I'm only a few pages in.
2. Pain au chocolat. Or if I have to have something non-desserty, gnocci with vodka sauce or pretty much anything with goat cheese.
3. Pat Robertson. Wait, Jerry Falwell. No, Jennifer Love Hewitt. I can't decide!
4. Malevolent. Ointment. Yes, me too! I'm not too concerned since I doubt that a mutually reviled word would really be grounds for stalking. Plus stalking me would be SO boring.
5. Dark blonde, fine, but a lot (according to my stylist.) Randomly wavy, curly in humidity, but only curling in a good way when short. Currently very long with layers. Generally blah in my opinion, but friends tell me not to chop it off so I guess someone thinks it works.
Feb 24, 2006
Just started reading here, but love the Bachelor Tuesdays...especially since I can't admit to anyone that I actually watch the show.
1. A Body in the Bath House, Lindsey Davis. A funny, intelligent mystery set in the Roman Empire. Very good, just make sure you start at the beginning of the series and give yourself enough time to get into them.
2. Potatoes. Mashed, scalloped, baked, fried, stuffed, roasted...in any form.
3. I'm not sure I can think of anybody I'd like to get rid of...Maybe I enjoy the self-indulgence of raging about another person or being offended?
4. I love the word "austere," and generally any word with Latin roots that I can identify, I love. (Does that make me a nerd?) I can't think of any word I dislike.
Maybe the word "like" as meaningless filler.
5. Shoulder-length, brown, curly, and falling out by handfuls since I had my baby six months ago...
Feb 24, 2006
1. this is going to be fun....I'm a Military/Wiccan/Chaplain Assistant..reading "The Idiots Guide to: Wicca" for the Religious Accomodation Library...pretty basic, but great information and easy to read. @ home/ Stephen King "Cell"... I'm not sure i like it enough to tell you to buy it, but *shrug* i would check it out of the Library...
2. med.rare.steak/Overeasyeggs w/ cheese on top!!*drool*
3. jessica simpson
4. pro: tart
con: shut up
5. dark brown/ red, super curly(thanks mom&dad), this southern humidity is KILLIN ME!! its a weather change away from being a 'fro!!
Feb 24, 2006
1) I'm in the middle of Go Tell It On The Mountain, which eh. I hope it turns out better than the direction it's heading in. I don't recommend it but if you (shameless plug) visit my site, you could find a book you're interested in.
2) I'm obsessed with food, so I don't think that I could pick just one type to eat forever. Indian, Japanese and Mexican food are my favorites though.
3) I'm going to be a hippie and say I wish that I could make all hate disappear.
4) Hat. Say it outloud. I like the sharp "t" at the end. Monkey is good too. Whenever anyone says b***h, it's like nails on a chalkboard. Sl*t drives me up the wall too.
5) Very short, dark, curly. It was much shorter and I'm deciding whether or not I want to grow it out or cut it again.
Feb 24, 2006
1- Ball Four by Jim Bouton & Leonard Schecter. I love baseball, and oddly enough I have never read this book even though Leonard is my Great (legally and he really is just plain cool) Uncle. Don't judge b/c I like baseball...I'm still a girly girl...just not too girly! I would recommend this to anyone , even if you don't like baseball, but can appreciate good storytelling.
2- My homemade pita chips and roasted red pepper hummus.
3- I won't say her name, but she was a friend who decided it was okay to have an affair with my husband (soon to be ex).
4- Favorite word...the C-word (I've been using it a lot lately, especially in reference to the answer to question #3) My least favorite word - No.
5- Straight, shoulder length hair with side swept bangs. Color = Amber Shimmer. So it's basically brown with copper in there somewhere.
Feb 24, 2006
1) "Nonfiction Book Proposals Anybody Can Write." Yes, if you're thinking about writing a book.
2) Avocadoes.
3) I plead the 5th. Email me and I'll tell you. ;)
4) Obstreperous. Hemorrhoid.
5) Short and sassy. Curlier than I remembered, after all those years of straightening, but I'm kinda digging it. Way more grey than is right for a delicate flower of my young age (oh hush).
Feb 24, 2006
1) "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" - I, like Suzanna Danna, hitched the Harry Potter train a little late but I am LOVING IT.
2) Tomato and Basil Wheat Thins - put a little Aloette cheese on there, and you have a crispy slice of heaven.
3) Would you like to see my laminated list? Somewhere near the top is that Omarosa chick from the Apprentice. You know, the one who is totally a reality show whore? Yeah, my jaw tightens and I start gritting my teeth anytime I see her.
4) I love any word that starts with "Z" - or any word I can MAKE start with "Z." And I am so not a fan of the unmentionable "c" word.
5) Short and spiky. Red most days, but I'm growing it out to my "real" color, so it'll be mousy brown for a while.
Feb 24, 2006
1) Three Junes by Julia Glass. YES---great character development.
2) I'm embarrassed to say pizza. [yawn] Favorite topping combo: green olives, red onions, and pineapple.
3) Sorry, I'm a Quaker, and our Secret Quaker Handbook says we have to see "That of God" in everyone.
4) Smarmy. Because you have to make a smarmy look to enunciate the word. Copacetic. Sounds too much like antiseptic.
5) I have it through no effort of my own [Nordic mutt genes + wash, condition, brush haircare. I don't even go to a proper stylist---just a high-end beauty school every 6 months or so] .... Please don't think I'm bragging coz it's just the luck of the draw, but this is a direct quote from my last haircut:
Stylist: "I love your color. Is it . . . natural?"
Me: "Yes"
S: "Ooh, and so soft!"
Feb 24, 2006
1. Plainsong by Kent Haruf. Love it.
2. Hmmm..... probably the bruschetta from my favorite Italian place in Seattle.
3. This guy: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0217062contract1.html
4. I love the word luminous. And I hate the word rape.
5. My hair. Lots of it, but baby fine so it always looks limp. Currently shoulder-length and layered, colored auburn (a lovely change from the natural dishwater blonde). My favorite hair products are anything that volumizes without adding weight.
Feb 24, 2006
1) To Have and Have Not
Wanted to read some Hemingway but didn't want to read about war or fishing or hunting, so that pretty much left that as my only option. It's definitely worth reading for no other reason than to demonstrate that even the best fail.
2) There's nothing as utilitarian as pizza.
3) Seems like a waste of time to even think about something like that.
4) S**t. Nothing is more encompassing. Funnest. It's not even a word, but people keep trying to make it one.
5) Shorter than it was when I woke up this morning.
And now I'm off in search of a lemon.
Feb 24, 2006
Oooh, finally a (definitely not a) meme that us non-bloggers can join in on!
1. Water Music by T.C. Boyle. Either you like him or you don't. I like him.
2. Baguette, cheese and pate. And olives. And the little cornichons!
3. I find heinous, obnoxious celebrities amusing, and wishing anyone from real-life off the face of the earth makes me feel like a bad person. So I abstain.
4. My favorite words are French: "pantouffle," and "pamplemousse." Ahhhh. Least favorite: myocardial infarction. Myocardial is alright, it's the infarction I take issue with. I spent a sleepless night after one particularly grueling Health psychology lecture in college, and couldn't get the echoing refrain out of my head: "infarction...infarction....infarction..." Aaargghh! Just call it a heart attack!
5. Light brown, straight, bangs to mask long face. Horrified to admit to self I've had essentially the same haircut my whole life.
Feb 24, 2006
1) Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bronx is Burning. Darn good, and I shall have a review of it on my sidebar shortly.
2) Well if I choose medium rare steak, with eggs (over medium) and hash browns, I might never poop again. Could I have a salad once in a while?
3) I'd like to hook my brain up to a magic machine and extract the lazy ass currently occupying the premises, leaving behind the good parts.
4) asthetic, the c-word
5) Brown, thick, very cooperative.
When I first read your choice of hair color I thought "Huh? Does she feel an affinity for roast beef? Are French cows better than American, probably fewer hormo-- Ohhh, French Roast!" Can you tell I don't drink much coffee?
Feb 24, 2006
1. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close because it's, um, the required reading for book club which you'd be hosting on Monday if it weren't for that damn Bachelor finale nonsense. And I happen to know you checked it out from the library yesterday, so no need to recommend (especially since you've already read it).
2. If I were being good I'd say ceviche, maybe beef carpaccio. Otherwise, definitely my mom's mahogany fried chicken, mashed potatoes with sawmill gravy, and collard greens with chow chow. But wait, is Ativan a viable option?
3. Kevin Federline
4. Calypso. A toss-up between ointment and chunky
5. Blonde-ish, frizzy-wavy, recently shorn by my kitchen scissors after a few glasses of wine, and generally spiteful and mean-spirited.
Feb 24, 2006
1. Oh, how embarrassing to admit this to the Internet. I am comfort reading Maeve Binchy's Firefly Summer, but also reading The Artist's Way (by Julia Cameron) and The Red Tent (by Anita Diamant).
2. Rice.and.Gravy. All day, every day. Myocardial infarction soon to follow.
3. Someone to off? How about Osama? Maybe our problems would be solved, but not likely.
4. Favorite word: asshat. I don't think I have a least favorite word.
5. Long, down to the middle of my back long, every darkening brown with reddish highlights still shining through. I really need a haircut.
Feb 24, 2006
1) Howard Zinn's a People's History of the US, and yes!
2) Saffron rice and chicken tikka masala.
3) No one, seriously. My malice is too widespread to just pick one, so either the rules would have to be changed to allow me to off half the world, or they're all tolerable.
4) At the moment I've developed a great fondness for "sudafed", and purely for its symbolic purposes I'd say I dislike the words "head cold"
5) Naturally brown, straight, and fine. Thus artificially it is short, red, and fine.
Feb 24, 2006
1) Queen of the Underworld by Gail Godwin...it could be a winner, but so far it's kind of uninspired. Have you read The Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon? Amazing.
2) Just one food and no others? or eat it with impunity even when I have no teeth and high cholesterol? If just one food, I'd have to go with chocolate, or maybe ice cream...or buttered toast...or jelly beans. Or buttered toast jellybeans. Really, I wouldn't like anyone telling me I could only eat one food, so stop being so controlling!
3) I would remove my sister-in-law. (Ever try googling "take out sister in law"?)
4) Myriad. And...[sister-in-law's name]
5) Naturally colored light brown, very smooth and straight and shiny, and at an annoying length, but today I put it in pigtails at the gym for the first time in months and I'm all happy again.
Feb 24, 2006
1. looking for a good read at the moment, so instead am reading Vogue and Allure. the nice big spring issues!
2. potatoes, cause you can do a lot with them. mashed, hashbrowns, scalloped, wierdly boil them like the irish do until they get "floury", etc.
3. hmm am thinking along the lines of what joy said or possibly my MP who is evangelical, does not live in the riding and quite possibly will attemp to threaten my given right to a safe abortion or my gay friends' right to get married.
4. opulence and anxiety
5. Naturally dark blond, with hilights that bring me back to my original colour of nice pale blond. I look too vampire-y with dark hair, due to my flourescent white colouring.
Feb 24, 2006
hee just went back to read the comments and forgot to note that I have been reading you since you started.
Feb 24, 2006
i found your site from amalah.com but i stay for the bachelor recaps...
1. Nadine Gordimer's "Loot and Other Stories." The woman could write toaster manual directions and they would be haunting and lyrical. the toaster would evoke the ghosts of apartheid. but actually, this is not her best.
2. probably angel hair pasta with olive oil and garlic. can i also have a glass of wine? and maybe a couple pieces of dark chocolate?
3. how about ashlee simpson's dad.
4. ribald; crotch
5. red (and redder sometimes with help from aveda's "bixa"), very thick, longish, and either straight or wavyish depending on my patience level
Feb 24, 2006
1. 'Fathers & Crows' and it is so tremendously boring that I won't even bother going downstairs to find out the author's name. There is no chance in hell of me actually finishing the book.
2. tacos
3. Kelly Clarkson. I wish she'd just die and put me out of my misery. Bush & Co tie for second with the government of South Dakota. (no, I don't live there)
4. froufrou; C-word (see, I hate it so much, I can't even TYPE the word
5. brown, to the middle of my back, and way too straight. Oh, and it's really, really dry and tangly from living without humidity for over a year.
Feb 24, 2006
My turn!
1) I am reading a book called "Mindfulness." Interesting concept- but I keep falling asleep while reading it. Recently read "Can you keep a secret" by Sophie Kinsella, and laughed out loud while reading it.
2) NY pizza. Or donuts. Or my favorite combo- goldfish & m&ms.
3) Gosh - there are a ton of people I would, um, love to get rid of. Bill O'Reilly... or most of the Bush administration (I actually think that Bush is the least worrisome of the bunch)... or really most of the scary people who are threatening to make this country as conservative as it has ever been.
4) I hate the word 'moist' and I hate the 'c' word, too. I tried to take the 'c' word back... and to use it... but I just can't.
5) Curly but controlled, brown, in a modern bob shape, parted at the side, and semi-sweeping over one side of face, and really not my favorite feature.
Feb 24, 2006
1) I am reading Predator the new book by Patricia Cornwell. I don't like it as well as I have her other Kay Scarpetta books.
2) I could eat shrimp every day for the rest of my life...my favorite way is to boil them.
3) I can think of a few too many to list. I can't narrow it down to just one.
4) I like to say the word "Salsa". I like the word cuddle. The word I hate is the c-word and like wendy, I can't type it either.
5) My hair is a little long, past my shoulders, light brown with some gray mixed in. As I am getting older, 40's, the texture is changing and I have to rethink the way I have fixed it for years. It is curly for some reason and just lays weird.
Feb 24, 2006
1. i alternate between the economist and some trashy tabloid. (only the $1.99 ones - b/c paying $3 for a trashy mag would mean i have a problem.) i recommend this week's economist if you'd like to read about why hippies are an endangered species. i recommend life & style if you want to see pictures of rob lowe with a mullet (OMG it's as bad as it sounds).
2. roti canai from penang. or possibly soup dumplings from joe's shanghai.
3. oooohhh... i get shivers from the very idea! THE POWER OF NEVER BEING ANNOYED AGAIN! but if i could only choose one, possibly osama bin laden, simply for the joy of being able to hold it over the collective heads of the bush administration. THEY WOULD SO OWE ME.
4. "roti canai, and make it snappy"... and the c-word. ick.
5. long, red and curly... i admit i have to dye it, but i blame my father! HE's the one who screwed my chance of getting my mother's lovely redhead genes... and since i DID get the freckles, i feel it is only fair.
Feb 24, 2006
1. "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" -- it's meant to be a young adult book, but it's very good if you like books about the friendships between young girls.
2. Either a Vietnamese caramelized chicken with ginger dish or Thai chicken panang curry would be my #1 choice for a meal to eat forever.
3. Osama Bin Laden for obvious reasons; Tom Cruise because I think his recent attitude is so poisonous.
4. I love the word "awesome." Dislike "capisce" due to negative associations.
5. Hair is slightly longer than shoulder-length, wavy/curly, very fine, really unmanageable. I'm looking for a better cut.
Feb 24, 2006
1. Stranger than Fiction by Chuck Palahniuk. Highly recommended---but only if you've read other books by him as it really gives some insight as to where his ideas and characters come from.
2. Those enormous burritos from Cotijas in San Diego.
3. Initially I was inclined to say W, but after careful consideration I realized that offing Cheney would leave the other moron so confused he would most likely drown in his own drool in a matter of hours.
4. Love "antithesis." Hate "journey" and "connection" --- because that's all I hear on Monday nights when I'm sitting here at my desk, LISTENING to The Bachelor. (Not WATCHING.) Also "myself"---because it's quite possibly the word most commonly used incorrectly (ie: "Myself and Holly went to the movies.")
5. Brown, too short, in the process of being grown out. (Why am I even telling you this? You see it every day.)
Feb 24, 2006
Yay! Look at all the fun comments! See? So entertaining.
Feb 24, 2006
1.)Regrettably I am going on 3 months of trying to finish Don't Shoot It's Just Me Bob Hope...fainter hearts would have given up by now. But I forge ahead. As of last night 23 pages to go. I would only recommend the first 75 pages. It's downhill from there...not exactly what you would call a "page turner". I don't know maybe it's just me...but towards the end..I really don't understand his jokes. He says they got laughs...but i'm not so sure. And if you're wondering "why would you even start this book?" Well that's a whole 'nother story.
2.)Only one food ? Or just one food I could still eat til I died in addition to other foods? You just thought that was an easy question. Either way there is no way for me to decide. When we go out to eat I have to find out what everyone else is having before I order. I know it's annoying... I can't help myself.
3.)The people who canceled Arrested Development (my previous monday night guilty pleasure) *my dislcaimer:you must rent the 1st season dvds and watch from the beginning in order to appreciate it.
4.)Heinous. Girdle (although I agree with Sean on the journey and connection thing... I mean don't these guys have friends that say..."please FOR THE LOVE!! don't use these words EVER while filming this show"?)
5.)An ongoing cosmotology experiment - currently warm chesnut which suprisingly is not at all like chestnut but more like shiny golden blond. long, straight and thick but fine, cut stylishly (by my sister who administers the experiments at her whim) in what she calls my "Movie Star" hair... I know, I know...sounds great right?....but i'm not thin like her so it all evens out
Feb 25, 2006
Gah! See what happens when you spend your day working instead of goofing off on the 'Net like you damn well should? You show up late for stuff like this.
(1) Just finished "Love and Other Impossible Pursuits" by Ayelet Waldman. It's a great book, plus she is my friend and has a hunky writer husband. I always have different books going in each bathroom of the house, and we have three bathrooms, so I've got The Deeper Meaning of Liff by Douglas Adams in the master bath, a book on the California missions in the second upstairs bath, and actually three books -- a history of American presidential campaigns, Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs, and Without Feathers by Woody Allen in the guest bathroom. (Lest it sound as though I spend worrying amounts of time in the bathroom, let me point out that when you're the mom of three small kids, it's the only place you can go to hide.)
(2) One food? Potato latkes with sour cream.
(3) Remove forever, wow. That would have to be Tom Cruise, whom I have hated for years and years and years, long before it was fashionable to hate him.
(4) Love serendipity. Hate rancid.
(5) Brown, long, messy, with bangs. Changes character with each successive pregnancy. Presently rather curly, which was a nice surprise.
Feb 25, 2006
I thought of my least favorite word, or at least, type of word. Anything mispelled on purpose, like 'Kountry' or 'Kafe'. This includes names as well, I am not very flexible when it comes to names!
Feb 25, 2006
Ok.
1. Memoirs of a Geisha. I really enjoyed it. Except that the end kind of petered out....
2. Chocolate.
3. This one girl at the residential home where my husband and i both work, who is evil. And, incidentally, a few months ago she completely pulled out from his head 10 of my husband's dreadlocks.
4. Favorite...maybe sympathy. Worst...wound. Or maybe neck.
5. Recently cut by my mother into a straight-across bob, and is now somewhat unwieldy but cuter than it was when it was long. I would have prefered a "real" haircut, but couldn't afford it right now, and this is definitely better than nothing.
Feb 25, 2006
1) "Tales From the Jazz Age", F. Scott Fitzgerald. Good little bite-sized short stories about being young and rich (or poor and envious) during the roaring 20's.
2) Chicken Pad Thai.
3) Like Joy, I have a sister-in-law I'd dearly like to vaporize. I can't begin to explain the ways in which the woman is a waste of oxygen.
4) Favorite: perspective. Worst: pussy.
5) My hair is coppery-auburn dyed, shoulder-length, unruly, and almost completely style-free. If I'd let it go natural, I fear half of it would be silver at this point; but since I'm only 34, I won't be testing this theory any time soon.
Feb 25, 2006
1. I'm not sure if this counts but I am currently reading my newest issue of Cooking Light. There are a lot of tasty looking recipes in there.
2. French fries. The really good kind with lots of salt. Chocolate and pizza are both in second place, but I'd eat any of the three whenever I could...but I don't. Because then I'd feel really gross, all the time.
3. I know she is a do-gooder, but for some reason, Angelina Jolie drives me absolutely crazy. That being said, if she'd just keep her pouty-looking lips out of the media, I'd be ok with that.
4. Favorite word---f*cktard. Least favorite---wicked (as in "wicked cool man!)
5. My hair is currently a few inches past my shoulders, a medium to dark brown with natural red highlights. Some might call them auburn. It is thin and fine, straight when long and very shiny all of the time. It has previously been very long, then I shaved it off into a buzz cut and it grew in a different color (it was a dark chestnut brown my whole life until I shaved it off.) Then I grew it out and chopped it off again into a short bob, and I'm now growing it long. When it's short it's very wavy but not wavy enough to be curly.
Feb 25, 2006
I've been reading you since Sheryl put a link up about you. And Lord, you're funny.
1. My purse book is American Gods - Neal Gaiman. I'm about five chapters in and I'm hooked. My home book is Whiteout by some Follett guy (can't remember his first name) and I like him as well. He also wrote Night Over Water and that was excellent.
2. Um, I'm assuming calories don't count, right? Because I just joined Weight Watchers and have planned on never eating them again. The salty goodness that are French Fries. Or Garlic Roasted Mashed Potatoes. Or Ribs. Dang it. Now I'm hungry. And I can't choose!
3. I try to ignore politics but I really, really, really dislike George Bush. But if I whack him, Cheney becomes president. I'm not sure what is worse. Maybe the guy who is running for gov of Minnesota that is a vampire. He irritates me. And people laughed at Jesse Ventura. Please. Jesse's cool.
4. Favorites are thwack, thwart and segue. I hate the g-d dammit word. I'm not overly religious but that just strikes me as blasphemy. If I ever catch myself using it, I will apologize to God. Does that make me weird? It does, doesn't it?
5. I have no idea what my natural hair color is - maybe black? Brown? I've been dying it forever. Right now it is dyed Cinnamon Stick from a box that has the highlights and regular dye together. Except that I got bored with the highlighting part, took the goop and just ran my hands through my hair. It's interesting...kind of orangish brown. I'm also trying to grow it so I got a perm and I kind of look like a poodle.
This was fun. I'm so going to have to do this.
Feb 25, 2006
Ummm ... FIFTY COMMENTS?! (and counting)
How am I supposed to get a word in, people?
1. Currently reading: an assortment of Berenstain Bears Books. Feel free to check 'em out at your local library. And then burn them to save Charleston parents from my fate. (I vaguely remember when I read books with, you know themes and stuff. Now I'm just happy to get through one month's Vanity Fair before the next month's comes.)
2. Anything that comes with a serviette. Of the non-paper variety.
3. Jessica Simpson & Paris Hilton. Preferably at the same time.
4. Sassy. Cute.
5. Strawberry blonde (is there an 'e' on blond(e) in English?). The strawberry's my own. I get lots of help with the blond(e). Straight when I 'do' it, messed-up-waves when I don't. (Don't hate me: It sounds a lot better written than it looks in real life.)
Feb 25, 2006
1. 30,001 baby names - I am pregnant (2nd time around) and choosing someone's (hopefully) lifelong moniker is right up there in the pain status with labor itself. Sounds like it'd be fun, right?! Considering all my husband and I ever agree on is that we love each other and our children . . . .
2. Pizza - it can be done so many ways, plus cheese and salt (ugh the bloat) are so very high on the craving scale.
3. Cheney - once he goes with his hand up Bush's ass the talking puppet will go too.
4. Bastard - I try to say 'bastard columns' in the news meetings as much as possible - it was 3 times this last Thurs. 'Slacks' and 'blouse' have tied.
5. Medium brownish and longer in the front with long sweeping bangs. Can you blelieve I actually drew my hairstylist a picture because I couldn't find what I wanted?! So all my nerdness is out now.
Feb 25, 2006
I also LOVE answering random questions & filling out surveys! Okay, let's see here...
1. Just finished Danielle Steele's "Changes." It was a nice romantic story (at least this one didn't make me cry).
2. Oh, definitely ribs, or "pulled pork." As long as I have an endless supply of bbq sauce and Sweet Tea!
3. Oh, a tough one...I'd probably go with Kim Jung Il (North Korea's pres).
4. I say "Anyways" & "Whatever" ALL the time. I really hate the word panty (panties)!
5. Darkish brown (with seasonal-natural-blond & red highlights). Mostly straight, but with lots of "frizzies." Almost always in a ponytail.
Feb 25, 2006
1) Just finished reading the Christopher Kennedy Lawford's autobiography. What a douchebag.
2) There's a local pizza place--holy crap is their pizza good. But not only would I not be able to eat it exclusively for the rest of my life, I can't eat it but once a month or so. Mickey-Mouse digestive system--I love their food, but the feelings are not reciprocated.
3) I can't think of anyone I feel that strongly about, even in a theoretical sense. Although...last night, I watched a Netflix DVD of a few old episodes of Tom Snyder's "The Tomorrow Show", highlighting icons of the punk/new wave era. One episode featured the former leader of the Sex Pistols, and he was *such* a completely rude tool. So I'm going with Johnny Rotten circa 1980, and not so much rub him out as give him a serious beatin'.
4) Favorite word: my first printer--"bubblejet." Least favorite word: hmmmm..gotta go with the combination of "anal" and "glands".
5) Light brown, fine, very rarely does what I want it to do.
Hey, wait, am I the only dude answering this survey? Sweet. (oops, maybe not, I see a "Sean" up there.....)
Feb 25, 2006
1a. YOUR BLOG! jesus h. christ on a crutch, how is it that i haven't read you before???!
1b. this: http://tinyurl.com/oe2yn -- which i'm ENTHRALLED with. i just reached the "germs" portion, and things are heating up, man.
2. pad thai
3. W.
4. fave: ludicrous (one among many); least fave: pus
5. blondish, with roots, pokey, crazy, petulant.
Feb 25, 2006
1. I'm not reaaaally reading anything, I have no time, but I am in the middle of The Ice Storm by that famous authour Idont Knowwho, and in the middle of The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie (yes, that man from House)
2. Steak!! Or grilled cheese sandwich. Or no, yeah, steak with melted boursin, or your Christmas stuffing because I'm sorry it WAS me who ate all of it at Christmas.
3. Ew, Tara Reid, I actually hate her with a passion! I mean, who doesn't? With her mangled plastic surgery and moon face, she's going to start international wars on Wild On Tara
4. Tantamount, or chipolata. My least favourite is crud! Eww!
5. Strangely blonde considering I dyed it brown like a second ago. I'm waiting for it to grow super long, like Alexandra from Project Runway.
Feb 25, 2006
Harumph, my reply is way down here under the others and thus, not nearly as clever as if it had been reply #6, or something. (I just wanted to type "harumph.")
1. Daughter of Fortune, by Isabel Allende. Only a couple chapters in, so I can't really recommend or pan yet...I will let you know.
2. Pasta, because this buys me lots of variations...bolognese, arrabiata, vodka sauce, florentine...plus of course other accompanying ingredients such as grilled chicken, or shrimp, or pancetta and scallions. I could live on carbs alone.
3. Carrot Top, or Dick Vitale, or my officemate, whom I've affectionately nicknamed "Tommy Hanson"
4. Favorites: flummox, hankering, dilapidated, underpants (that last one always makes me snicker)
Unfavorites: the oft-cited 'moist,' bowel or its abbreviated cousin 'BM' (who SAYS that? Bee-Em...*retch*), and the related 'colon'
5. Cowlicky, thick, dirty blondish-light brownish with some reddish highlights thrown in. About shoulder length, and finally long enough to corral into an absurdly tight ponytail.
Feb 25, 2006
1. In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash by Jean Shepherd (for the billionth time). Nah, don't bother. It's good in that hokey kind of way, but I'm only rereading it because it was the first thing I grabbed off the bookshelf.
2. Pad thai.
3. The copy editor on the night desk at my newspaper.
4. Favorite word: Watermark. It just has a lovely ring to it. Least favorite word: Shin. Makes me inhale sharply just thinking about it. Ow!
5. Well, fabulous. Shoulder length, rich shiny brown (naturally, I swear) with a "That Girl" flip I have learned to embrace rather than battle.
Feb 25, 2006
1. Currently reading "Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim" by David Sedaris. LOVE me some David Sedaris and I have tickets to see him live in April! Would definitely recommend this book.
2. Pretty much anything Italian with lots of marinara sauce and cheese, i.e., manicotti, lasagna, etc.
3. Ooo....where to begin? Probably tops on my list would be Bill O'Reilly, closely followed by all the other cable news talking heads who spend all their time shouting at people rather than listening to them.
4. Favorite: froufy (a derivative of frou-frou); Least Favorite: chunks
5. Chin length, dark brown, kind of a bob with bangs and tucked behind the ears. Stubborn. Likes to look its best when I'm sitting around the house all by myself with no hopes of seeing anyone at all.
Hey, that was fun! Let's do more!! ;-)
Feb 25, 2006
1-Rise, Let us Be On Our Way, John Paul II - found in on sale. Just started it, but it seems great, not at all stuffy.
2-Just one? Oh, my. Some kind of awesome Italian dish I guess, with grilled chicken, garlic, pasta, olive oil, garlic, veggies, parmasiano regiano(sp?), and did I mention the garlic?
3-Osama Bin Ladin: after he professes regret and and shame on live TV.
4-fave-linen, least fave-bulbous.
5-shoulder length, mousy brown, super fine but not in the hip-hop way, sweep away bangs.
Feb 25, 2006
1) I have a terrible habit of reading more than one book at a time. Right now I am partway through "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri - I recently read "The Namesake" by the same author, I highly recommend it. I am also in the middle of "Living to Tell the Tale" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (I recommend anything he has written), and just finished "Devil in the Details; Stories from an Obsessive Girlhood" by Jennifer Traig.
2) good brie with fresh, soft bread... or perhaps greasy burritos from any hole-in-the-wall Mexican taco shop in San Diego.
3) George W. Bush, and perhaps a handful of past-boyfriends
4) favorite word: I have many, but right now the word "superfluous" comes to mind. least favorite: moist, or insert (as a verb, not a noun)
5) hair... bothersome. Some people have bad hair days, I have a bad hair life. I cannot be bothered to style it, it is always dry and brittle, I am plagued by flyaways and split ends, and I pull it out obsessively... I hate, and also envy, those damn women in Pantene commercials
Feb 25, 2006
I've never, ever been able to resist a questionnaire. I was that 7-year-old rating the waitress at the local diner.
1. I just finished Vernon God Little by DBC Pierce. It's a satire and, as such, I found that it had a hard time sustaining itself. I'm also re-reading No Fond Return of Love by Barbara Pym. Definitely get the Pym out and read it. Vernon can stay on the shelf.
2. Pasta. I could eat it every night.
3. Tough one. I'd say the Canadian equivalent on George Bush who is Stephen Harper. He looks exactly like Ken (you know, Barbie's sidekick).
4. Never, ever though of this. I suppose my favourite word is "ambly-ance" which is how my children pronounce it. My least favourite word is "poop," which is their current favourite word and must be repeated ad nauseum.
5. It's short; it's "burgundy brown." (This colour is so found in nature!) Right now, it needs a little more "burgundy brown" to hide the lovely grey roots. It's sort of wavy and used to be curlier before I started colouring it.
Feb 26, 2006
1) I am a librarian and I can never resist the new books at work. Currently I am reading "Lighthouse" by P.D. James (it is too early for me to rate it); "Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Norm" the collected letters of Richard Feynman (I am loving it, but I am fascinated by the man); "The Great Influenza" (I am just starting this one, but my husband couldn't put it down); "Wicked" (a great read!); "Gratins" (a cookbook, drool); "So Your Dog Isn't Lassie" (I just adopted a pound puppy); "Where Willy Went" (a great children's book that explains human reproduction in a very funny way. My six year old has been asking lots of questions) and "The Northeastern Garden Book" (great book, but probably not of much use to you).
2) Chocolate, of course.
3) I am also voting for all of the current administration. Throw in Tom Cruise for good measure.
4) Phenomenon. Corpuscle.
5) Light brown, streaked with gray. All covered up with blonde highlights. I must get it touched up soon though, as my daughter recently described my hair color as "tie-dyed".
Feb 26, 2006
What fun!
1. "Wicked", absolutely get it from the library, and Twain's "Following the Equator" which has been a favorite forever. Funny, clever, insightful and easy to pick up and enjoy in small bites.
2. waffles
3. Oh gee.....the possibilities are endless. Sean's vision of W drowning in his own drool made me snort with glee. So yea. Cheney, with Rummy a close second.
4. This is tough. Favorites - melifluous, springbok, fandango. Ick words - ointment and salve.
5. "Bring me a shrubbery!"
Feb 26, 2006
1) Science Friction by Michael Shermer.
2) My husband's homemade pizza.
3) I'm really quite passive; can I skip this one?
4) Supercalifragilisticexpialadocious. Panty/panties.
5) Schizophrenic, but in therapy and medicated to the gills.
Feb 26, 2006
1. Elizabeth Costello -- J.M. Coatzee
2. Pizza
3. Oprah Winfrey
4. Olive. Wad.
5. Long, black, shiny.
Feb 26, 2006
[finally have time to corret my typos...)
Pierre not Pierce.
thought not though
Feb 26, 2006
that would be correct.
Feb 26, 2006
What! You want to get rid of Oprah!!!? Where else are we going to hear Jake Gyllenhaal talk about kissing Heath Ledger? WHERE ELSE?
Feb 26, 2006
1) (unapologetically) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. For the second time. YES - read the Harry Potter books! Great truths are sometimes found in the most unlikely, seemingly silly places.
2) Chicken Tikka Masala from The Sitar in Nashville, TN. OR pizza from Les' Pizza on Long Island.
3) Why limit it to one? How about a huge box containing Paris Hilton, Nicole Richie, Ashlee Simpson, Britney Spears and Kevin Federline, Pamela Anderson, and ..... you get the idea. We'll put a sign on it that says "Compost".
4) Favorite: Hello
Least favorite: Hoagie
5) Waist length, black with reddish highlights.
Feb 26, 2006
1) Am currently re-re-re-reading the Book that I've loved since fourth grade: Moby Dick. The unabridged version. Highly reccomend it if you haven't already. Or, even if you have.
2) Kind of food? Mmmm Indian food - so many choices. Item: Probably pizza.
3) Dubya. No contest.
4) Favorite word: Chocolate. Just kidding. I think possibly veranda. Least favorite word: either the n-word or the c-word.
5) Currently dark brown/reddish tinged with the long side bangs, past shoulder length. A bit wavy, mostly smooth. I like it but I'm not good at "doing" it so it is often up in a twist.
Feb 26, 2006
1) "The Bonesetter's Daughter" - Amy Tan. A member of my book club selected it. I wouldn't normally pick it up, but I will finish. Recently read "Devil in the White City" and would urge you to check it out.
2) Cheesecake. If nutrition and calorie count weren't a consideration. Wait--who am I trying to kid? Nutrition and calorie count are never really a factor I consider, anyway.
3) Kimora Lee Simmons.
4) Beluga. My two-year-old inexplicably shouts it whenever she is particularly happy. I suppose anything she shouts when she is particularly unhappy becomes my least favorite word of the moment. But also: jis.
5) Incorrigible.
Feb 26, 2006
Damn, ya'll are some narcissistic freaks! I can't wait to join in!
1. Just finished Burton on Burton and have since been reading nothing else but food ingredients, since my kid is allergic to like, everything.
2. Kimchee... but really any kind of Korean food, much to the chagrin of my husband. Oooh, wait. I might change my answer to Pepperidge Farm Goldfish. Hmmm, if only the Korean's could manufacture a Goldfish. Now that would be the perfect food. Or, ummm, you know, totally disgusting. One or the other.
3. I don't understand all these people that want Britney Spears to vanish. It's so much fun watching her zits breed and her husband spend all her cash. And don't they know how many people working for Us Weekly and In Touch magazines would lose their jobs if such a thing happened? You have to THINK, people! Anyway, my answer might have to be..... Jessica Alba, who makes me weep an ever-so envious weep everytime I see her abdomen and realize that after two children, no amount of crunches will allow such a thing.
4. Favorite: anything referring to an abundance of - cornucopia, plethora, ampleness, copious, etc (all of which I abuse) ... Least favorite: Itch. More accurately, when people say "itch" when they mean "scratch." "My mosquito bite is irritating me" ... "Than itch it!" Ickkk. HORRIBLE.
5. Opinionated / Obnoxious / Abominable/ Somewhat Offensive. But flat irons are it's kryptonite. All hail the straightener.
Feb 27, 2006
this is a great post, holly! i had to de-lurk (i've commented before, but not in a long time) because of it...
1. i'm reading a short story by eudora welty called the petrified man. i've only just started, but i like the dialogue.
2. spaghetti with meatballs. it's traditional maybe, but it's been a fall-back since i was old enough to digest meat.
3. the ex-boyfriend who saddled me with more than $5000 in debt, ruined my credit, and did lots of other mean things. but if i wanted to do something for the world, i'd put all the megalomaniac world leaders in a box and fed-ex it to hell.
4. concupiscence (can this be my favourite even though i don't know how to spell it?) worst: pork
5. i just got it cut for the first time in a year and a half YESTERDAY! it's shoulder-length and now all my natural hair colour (a dirty blonde)
Feb 27, 2006
1. Read? A book? With no pictures? God. Last one was Blue Blood by Edward Conlon. Lots of NYC imagery for me, a native living away.
2. Charcuterie and red wine. I guess, salad too. All that organ meat can be tough on the bottom system.
3. Whoever invented phone customer-service systems, especially the voice-recognition kind.
4. Fave: Gucci. Least fave: An old product called: Gyne-Moisturin. Incorporates worst word ever, moist, with lots of twat mental images. Nice.
5. Long, straight, medium-thick, quite grey, very colored, extraordinarily easy to manage. Basically, a genetic blessing.
Feb 27, 2006
1. 'Persuasion' by Jane Austen for nostalgia sakes (not like I lived in the 18th C or anything) but harbouring a secret hankering to read Sharon Osbourne's Biography - I keep looking at her 80s hair-do pictures in the bookstore.
2. Oh gack. Pregnant to the gills and hating all food. In normal life - I'd join you with the eggs and toast.
3. Couldn't/wouldn't do it...but if I HAD to be murderous it would be some evil African despot who embezzles money and incites genocides...there are too many to choose from.
4. Ooooh how to choose. Me and a dictionary = kid in a candy store.
Fave phrase would be 'faux pas' but pron. 'foxy paw' dunno why, it makes me laugh.
Least fave - Jello. An insult to the good name of Jelly. That's right people Jell-eee!
5. Born ginger. Incited a schooltime of mockery till suddenly 'red' became desirable colour. Faded off to 'Strawberry Blonde'. Generally low maintenance which is good cos I can't be bothered to have h.m. hair.
Feb 27, 2006
1. Voyage of the Dawn Treader. I'm enjoying the Chronicles of Narnia all over again with my kids. I think this is the best one, so yeah, check it out.
2. Mexican...yumm
3. Paris Hilton.
4. Hullaballoo. Work.
5. Dirty Blonde, straight, fine, but lots of it. My hairdresser says it's great. I say HELLPP!
Feb 27, 2006
adore your writing...keeps me in stitches
1) nothing. Also, I do not like it enough to encourage you to check it out. I'm not reading anything as I am moving this weekend and all of my books and other fun items are in lockdown in a cardboard box.
2) Cream of Wheat...I know gross. The Brown Maple kind...with not enough water in it, so its flaky. Ew, I can't believe I just admitted that to the internet/world.
3) This is tough. I don't want to make a rash decision as its obviously a very serious question...hm. Paula Abdul. But only because I think it would be good for her. I mean, with out life she can't host American Idol and if she isn't hosting the world cannot bear witness to her half immobile face.
4) Favorite: Fuckin A! Least Favorite: Snatch...sounds dirty right
5) Dark brown, almost black. Long and straight when beaten to death with a boars hair brush, blow-dryer, and flat iron/big barrel curing iron. When its not beaten its weird, crooked shapes pretending to be wavy.
Feb 27, 2006
What a fantastic idea to get all of your fans to come out of the internet woodwork!
1- I usually have 3-4 books going, so I'll narrow it down to two. The Garden Angel by Mindy Friddle which I would recommned going and buying so you could read it and then turn around and read it again directly without worrying about returning it EVER to the library (not that I, um, am doing that). Houe of God by Samuel Shem, which I recommend if you find medicine or sex interesting.
2-Only one food? I would say the "World Famous Peanut Sauce" from the Krishna place in Melbourne Oz. preferably slathered on hot bread or spinach.
3- I just can't.
4- Fav- Nantahala. Least fav- "dick" or any compound word made from it.
5- Brownish Red, wavy, currently a little bit longer than shoulder length getting ready to be chopped off and donated. I always have the same haircut (pretty much a bob style) only the length changes depending on when the last time I donated was:)
Feb 27, 2006
1) I'm re-reading The Irrational Season by Madeleine L'Engle. Most people have only read A Wrinkle in Time, but she has written several adult books too. Um, that doesn't sound right... She has written books FOR adults as well.
2) Bagels with lox...or chocolate-covered strawberries...
3) I'd have to say Cheney because I live in South Texas and now unconsciously duck whenever some birds fly out of a tree.
4) My favorite word is "sublime." I also like "pronunciation" but only said in French. Same spelling, but a completely different sound. Least favorite is "slacks."
5) Naturally blonde and naturally curly. I straighten it on special occasions, like when I actually get out of bed on time for work... Currently unfashionably long because I'm growing it for Locks of Love and don't want it to be super-short after 10 inches comes off.
Feb 27, 2006
1. I'm reading "The Good Body" by, Eve Ensler (the woman who wrote "The Vagina Monologues) The funny thing is that it's a very short book, but I've been reading it for about 6 months, because I have ZERO attention span and can only read a few paragraphs of a book at any given time (and that is usually when I'm, um, doing my business)
2. Curly fries with ranch dressing.
3. Gloria Alred. AAAAAHHHHH!
4. "Mosey" "Moist."
5. It's dark, a little dry, shiny and very long. it currently smells like brown sugar.
Feb 27, 2006
Oh my goodness I'm so late to the party. How embarassing, BUT I WAS OUT OF TOWN!!
1. The Time Travelers Wife. It was so good I kept crying IN PUBLIC.
2. so bad for me but I love Mac and Cheese but it has to be baked.
3. Paris Hilton... she's a train wreck and kids look up to her!
4. Fave: bamboozled (i don't even know how to spell it but I like it) Hate: sweat... I can't believe I just typed that out. Shudder.
5. Long used to be black but now is a light brown with carmel highlights. It is curly but I straighten it daily. It hates me.
Feb 27, 2006
I'm so tardy, but I just got back and want to play!
1. Arthur and George by Julian Barnes. Wonderful and not just because I have had a minor crush on Mr. Barnes since History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters or that I got him to sign my copy of A&G last month and he made a little dry joke and I giggled like a schoolgirl, much to the amusement of my husband.
2. Really good spicy tuna rolls or corn chowder
3. Dick Cheny -- did you read that article in the New Yorker about that Torture Memo? At the end of the day, I blame him for making policies that make me want to vomit, i.e. the Geneva Convention shouldn't apply to the "enemy combatants" held for over three years at Gitmo.
4. Favorite: hullaballo; Most hated: fetid
5. Dark brown, very fine with lots of natural curlies in the back; I've currently got a chin-length layered bob with a sweep of bangs on one side and a little flip in the back. That being said, I am ready to cut at least two inches off so it curls more. As my hairdresser George says, "We've got to set these free, girl."
Feb 28, 2006
Long time reader, first time commenter.
1. The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant, and yes.
2. Crispy bacon on toast with butter and strawberry jam, or the She-Crap soup I once got in your neck of the woods.
3. Someone I went to grammar school with. :(
4. Debauchery and Gout.
5. Long, ash blonde (better be, I paid enough for it), damaged, wavy
Feb 28, 2006
1. Haruki Murakami`s Hard Boiled wonderland.
2. Um... chocolate? ice-cream? pizza? cheese? soft freshly baked bread? Olives? good Mexican food? Good Italian food? Cake? Good Indian food? Chocolate mousse? ARrrrgghhh!!! I couldn`t possibly decide!
3. George Bush
4. Favourite "Free". But f*** is also good and extremely versatile... Least favourite... probably "panties".
5. Waist length, reddish brown, sometimes wavy sometimes straight, mostly pretty shiny and kind of fine.
Feb 28, 2006
1) I'm reading a book called Velvet Elvis by Rob Bell. I LOVE this book. I actually hugged it.
2) Dark chocolate? Artichokes? Pasta? Crusty sourdough with real butter. Yeah, that's it.
3) No idea whatsoever. Ooh-oooh, it woulda been Hitler.
4) "Yes!" or "Motherfucker". Can't.
5) My hair is a constantly-morphing art project which is currently dark brown and spikyish.
Feb 28, 2006
Do I have to know you to play? I hope not.
1. Þankagangur by Jón Gnarr. Yes, if you can find it. Yarn Harlot: The Secret Life of a Knitter. Yes, if you're into knitting bigtime (I'm not).
2. Lobster in melted garlic butter.
3. George Bush.
4. Only one of each? Ok - 'pizzazz'. And 'should'.
5. Shoulder length, brownish with blonde highlights, wavy and also straight. I keep hoping that one day it will just be nice without me having to do anything with it, but I'm starting to accept that this will never happen.
Feb 28, 2006
Okay, I'm late to the party (surprise!) but I want to play, too.
1. Tristram Shandy. Yes, really! Wade gave it to me for Valentine's Day. Because we're nerds! But nerds in love.
2. This magnificent chicked salad from a local place called Saturn Grill. It's a little spicy, which is fun, and you can get it as a salad or a sandwhich on two slabs of magnificent honey wheat bread. And it comes with a really terrible potato salad, which keeps the focus on the chicked salad.
3. Pat Robertson. Get on that, would ya?
4. Favorite: OBSTREPEROUS. Or perhaps INCORRIGIBLE. Least favorite: BLOGOSPHERE. I mean, really, that is about the dumbest word I can think of.
5. My hair is Lesbian Anne Heche. But you knew that already!
Mar 01, 2006
OMG, I can't believe I didn't pick Pat Robertson. Amen, and amen.