Category: Blogosphere Meme Pool Game

Nicole pointed to this, and I thought to myself, “Self, why not?” So here:

#1– Favorite candy: Chocolate. Almost any old chocolate. Preferable chocolate-covered coffee beans, though.

#2– Favorite movie: Bean. Any of the Mr. Bean movies, really. Fewer problems with suspension of disbelief than with most Hollyweird crap.

#3– Favorite drink: a wheat beer I brew every now and then. If not that, then coffee, which, though second on my fav list, is essential to life.

#4– Favorite dessert: blueberries or blueberry ice cream. but plain blueberries, preferably frozen, are just fine by themselves.

#5– Favorite city: KCMO. Lotsa reasons.

#6– Favorite pastime: Reading. Heck, I can even do my fav passtime while doing my second-fav, listening to music, or combine them by reading (and playing/singing–if even just in my head) music. *heh*

#7– Favorite clothing: Jeans and a cotton henley, short or long sleeve, depending on weather. Yeh, I wear shoes, too. Whadda you think I am? *sheesh*

#8– Favorite animal: Horse. (My second gig in “hi skool” was exercising, feeding horses, cleaning up after ’em, etc. Even the worst-tempered ones were better “people” than 90% of humans, especially those who are less appealing than the south end of a north-bound horse who inhabit Washington D.C. and all it spawns.) Can’t have horses, though. Love dogs. Like cats. Rabbits are both cuddly and yummy. Fried, preferably. I probably ought to move them up on my list…

#9– Favorite flower: dandelion. Beautiful and edible–all the parts of the plant, except for the seeds (and they make a decent “down” substitute). What’s not to like?

#10 Favorite music: classical– mostly Classic and Romantic periods. Some 20th Cenury and Baroque. A little even older stuff. I could move on down the list, cos there are a lot more styles I love listening to/playing/singing, but tops: Beethoven. I can–and have–spent days listening to nothing but his stuff. (OK, I’ve done the same with Sibelius, Mahler and Brahms, but Beethoven tops the list).

From Mel:

You have a band. You need a band name, a title for your first album and an album cover design.

Here’s how to do it:

1 – Go to Wikipedia and hit random. The first random Wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.
2 – Go to quotationspage.com and hit random. The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.
3 – Go to Flickr and click on “explore the last seven days”. Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.
4 – Use Photoshop or similar (picnik.com is a free online photo editor) to put it all together.
5 – Post it on your blog along with these instructions, and trackback or link to your post in these comments.

Here is mine:

Or,

*sigh* Woody, of Woody’s Place tagged me with one-a those “Blogosphere Meme Pool Game” thingies: “10 Honest Things About Myself” so, here’s some

1. I dislike blogosphere meme pool tag games, but I participate anyway just because
2. Whenever I’m inflicted with this curse, I share the pain with others (look out; your turn may come)
3. I have The World’s Messiest Office^TM. I can clean it up and things seem to crawl out of the walls to mess it up while my back’s turned. My office must be at the intersection of The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits…
4. BTW, my office sometimes serves as my “nekkid room”. Cover your eyes. It’s NOT a pretty sight…
5. I love music. No, not that crap that’s played on just about any radio station you can find, music. And yeh, I found I was so often bored to tears by the selections on so-called “classical” stations (GET OUTA THE ROMANTIC PERIOD!!! STOP IT ALREADY WITH “CONTEMPORARY *puke* JAZZ”!!!) that I now just find CDs or mp3s or whatever to buy and/or download online. Oh, sometimes a radio station in Australia, but even it has slim pickin’s. Often, I just listen to the best stereo system in the world: the one with a musical memory bank between my ears…
6. I am a wuss when it comes to “putting down” a pet in pain that cannot be controlled or fixed, but have (had) no trouble taking a shovel (rather than deal with firearm discharge issues in “city” limits) to an apparently rabid ground hog.
7. I am fully invested in confronting the FACT that our “feddle gummint” has become illegitimate, tyrannical, unconstitutional, and that congresscritters, executives and judicial appointees are simply doing what an illiterate, greedy, enstupiated electorate wants. Of course, “fully invested” doesn’t mean that’s the sum of my life, only that at NO time will I be silenced when I see an opportunity to “speak truth to (illegitimate) power”.
8. Why? Because I am a curmudgeon at heart. Nope, not misanthropic, just irritated beyond imagination by wilfull stupidity. Not cynical, just healthily sceptical–for cause! I have no problem throwing the bullshit flag at any time, on anyone, anywhere. Period. “Win friends and influence people”? *feh* 90% of people aren’t worth enough to consider as friends, and that same 90% is either too stupid or corrupt to be influenced by reason. A pox on them all.
9. I watch “chick flicks” with my Wonder Woman to be companionable. Every now and then, one of ’em turns out to be worth watching. Go figure.
10. I have had vivid dreams wherein The 0! is revealed by incontrovertable evidence to be a native born Kenyan who surrendered his Kenyan citizenship to become Indonesian, is run out of office, prosecuted for his campaign law violations and stripped of his fortune before being deported to Indonesia. Hey! A guy has to have dreams, doesn’t he?

Now, I’ll make time later to tag a few friends (while they still are friends *heh*) and insert the victims’ tags here.