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July 24, 2005
Corey's Meme
Corey put a meme up on his blog. Here's my version.
1. LAST MOVIE YOU SAW IN A THEATER: It's been so long I honestly don't remember. I think it might have been "Meet The Fockers."
2. WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING? I just finished "The Secret Man," Woodward's memoir of his relationship with his Watergate source. Next is "Stormy Weather" by Carl Hiassen.
3. WHAT WERE YOU DOING JUST MINUTES AGO? Watching the Cardinals and Cubs on ESPN.
4. FAVORITE MAGAZINE? Bon Appetite, ESPN the magazine, FHM.
5. FAVORITE SMELLS? The ocean, the beach, coconut, a woman's skin (shut up, women just smell really good!), French fries at the beach (you know, the ones crisped in oil and then drenched in malt vinegar), lime, the air just before a real midwestern thunderstorm hits.
6. FAVORITE FOODS? Scallops (especially wrapped in bacon), mussels, conch fritters, sushi, pulled pork in BBQ sauce, hot dogs, just about anything with lime in it, pineapple, raw oysters with cocktail sauce and horseradish.
7. FAVORITE SOUNDS? Ocean waves. Seagulls. The sound a baseball makes when the hitter gets the meat of the bat on it and drives it 400 feet. Little kids when they get the giggles. The fizzy sound when you open a can of something carbonated. Rain.
8. WORST FEELING IN THE WORLD? Those last five seconds before you throw up, when your mouth is watering wildly and your stomach is just beginning to spasm violently, and you know it's coming.
9. WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU THINK OF WHEN YOU WAKE UP? Hit the snooze bar. Just ten more minutes!
10. FAVORITE FAST FOOD PLACE? Five Guys burgers in Virginia; or just about any roadside hot dog stand.
11.FUTURE CHILD'S NAME? Chase, Cassidy.
12. FINISH THIS STATEMENT. "IF I HAD A LOT OF MONEY..." I would own a home in the Caribbean somewhere (St. Lucia? British Virgins? Turks & Caicos?), one in Spain, a luxury boat, I’d travel a lot, and none of my friends would ever pay for a vacation again.
13. DO YOU DRIVE FAST? Depends on how you define "fast." I usually go about 75 mph on open road.
14. DO YOU SLEEP WITH A STUFFED ANIMAL? Only if it's over 18. Actually, I sleep with four or five pillows.
15. STORMS-COOL OR SCARY? Very. Freaking. Cool.
16. Describe YOUR FIRST CAR? A drab green 1970 Nova. That car had more balls than anything I've owned since - was incredibly powerful.
17. FAVORITE DRINK? Just one? Grey Goose martini, dirty; pina coladas; and Caribbean Breezes (coconut rum, vodka, orange juice, grenadine)
18. FINISH THIS STATEMENT, "IF I HAD THE TIME I WOULD": a) finish my novel; b) get to the gym more.
19. DO YOU EAT THE STEMS ON BROCCOLI? I don't even eat the leafy part. Broccoli's nasty.
20. IF YOU COULD DYE YOUR HAIR ANY COLOR, WHAT WOULD BE YOUR CHOICE? Electric blue. Or maybe plum.
21. NAME ALL THE DIFFERENT CITIES/TOWNS YOU HAVE LIVED IN: Jersey City NJ, Honolulu HI, Richfield MN, Coon Rapids MN, Minneapolis MN, Orlando FL, Washington DC, Arlington VA, Boston MA, Wappingers Falls NY, Delray Beach FL, Yonkers NY
22. FAVORITE SPORT TO WATCH? Baseball.
23. ONE NICE THING ABOUT THE PERSON WHO SENT THIS TO YOU... Corey's one hell of a columnist, and hopefully the Baltimore Sun is smart enough to figure out that they could have the next big thing. I also like that he calls BS on me when I have it coming.
24. WHAT IS UNDER YOUR BED? A pair of 25 lb dumbbells, a Rand McNally atlas of the world, and more dust bunnies than there are Smiths in the US white pages.
25. TOILET PAPER/PAPER TOWEL-OVER OR UNDER? Under, though I never really thought about it till just now.
26 MORNING PERSON, OR NIGHT OWL? Hoot, Hoot. Night owl. Big time. I usually hit my stride between 9-11 pm. And I hate getting up in the morning. When I am elected president, mornings will be outlawed by executive order. The work day will officially start at 11:00 am.
27. OVER EASY, OR SUNNY SIDE - Over easy.
28. FAVORITE PLACE TO RELAX! Any beach will do; put it in the Caribbean and make it a bar on the beach, and I will never leave.
29. FAVORITE PIE? At the risk of going all hair band and juvenile, cherry pie. Also key lime pie.
30. OF ALL THE PEOPLE WHO WILL SEE THIS WHO IS MOST LIKELY TO DUPLICATE: I dunno. Eden?
31. LEAST LIKELY? Doc
Comments
Dude, go for it on the blue hair. I'm sure the kids up in W'chester will salute your edgy display of company pride.
Posted by: Ethan McCarty at July 25, 2005 11:32 AM
You go with plum hair and I'll pay for the dye job :)
Posted by: Corey at July 25, 2005 01:06 PM
1. LAST MOVIE YOU SAW IN A THEATER: It's been years. I am exclusively DVD now.
2. WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING? "The Kite Runner" and I just ordered "We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda" you know, a little light reading.
3. WHAT WERE YOU DOING JUST MINUTES AGO? telling a story.
4. FAVORITE MAGAZINE? Vanity Fair
5. FAVORITE SMELLS? Rain, tube roses
6. FAVORITE FOODS? anything mexican and steak med rare with horseradish
7. FAVORITE SOUNDS? The sound a screen door makes slamming on a summer afternoon.
8. WORST FEELING IN THE WORLD? Waking up, turning on the hallway light and finding a strange man in your hallway. No kidding, this happened to a freind of mine-last night. Had that been my or her house I would now be at the local police station filing reports about the male body in my hallway with bullet holes in his chest. She was at a friends house and ran and held the bedroom door shut until the cops came. He ran after pushing on the bedroom door for a few minutes.
9. WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU THINK OF WHEN YOU WAKE UP? What happened in that dream. Did I really dream about San Quentin and George Bush???
10. FAVORITE FAST FOOD PLACE? Fran's Burfers that I can see from my office window.
11.FUTURE CHILD'S NAME? Chase, Cassidy.
12. FINISH THIS STATEMENT. "IF I HAD A LOT OF MONEY..." I would learn to fly and buy a small plane.
13. DO YOU DRIVE FAST? I used to have a Texas drivers licence and an Oklahoma one so I could alternate which one I gave to the cops. Now I generally follow the limit or go about five miles over.
14. DO YOU SLEEP WITH A STUFFED ANIMAL? Nope but I do sleep with two moshi pillows.
15. STORMS-COOL OR SCARY? Wonderful.
16. Describe YOUR FIRST CAR? A 1972 White Ford Mustang convertable with a 351 Cleveland engine and black and white checkered seats.
17. FAVORITE DRINK? Beer or iced tea-sweet.
18. FINISH THIS STATEMENT, "IF I HAD THE TIME I WOULD": Sleep more.
19. DO YOU EAT THE STEMS ON BROCCOLI? Yup
20. IF YOU COULD DYE YOUR HAIR ANY COLOR, WHAT WOULD BE YOUR CHOICE? I did most colors not found naturally on human heads in the 80s so now I wouldn't.
21. NAME ALL THE DIFFERENT CITIES/TOWNS YOU HAVE LIVED IN: Abilene, TX/Corpus Christi, TX/Dallas Texas (Irving actually) and Austin, TX.
22. FAVORITE SPORT TO WATCH? NFL
23. ONE NICE THING ABOUT THE PERSON WHO SENT THIS TO YOU... Curmy is a blogger/writer I much admire.
24. WHAT IS UNDER YOUR BED? Dust bunnies and I'm not telling.
25. TOILET PAPER/PAPER TOWEL-OVER OR UNDER? Always over. Under is just plain wrong and confuses me in a bathroom situation.
26 MORNING PERSON, OR NIGHT OWL? Both
27. OVER EASY, OR SUNNY SIDE - Over easy.
28. FAVORITE PLACE TO RELAX! In a nice girls arms.
29. FAVORITE PIE? My dads key lime.
Curmy, I so have I Want You To Want Me and Surrender stuck in my head today.
Posted by: Mileah at July 26, 2005 01:13 PM
Oh and for a childs name I like Abigail.
Posted by: Mileah at July 26, 2005 01:15 PM
Mileah -
So do I. (Btw, "I Want You To Want Me" is one of my karaoke standards. Anyone brave enough to go to a karaoke place with me is guaranteed to hear that one belted full blast.)
Posted by: Curmudgeon at July 27, 2005 11:05 AM
Hey remember me?
I'm back and here to wreak havoc all over your comment section.
You know you missed me. :-D
Posted by: Sarah at July 29, 2005 12:16 AM
Welcome back, Sarah! How's your summer?
Posted by: Curmudgeon at July 29, 2005 11:06 AM
fabulous.
and by the way,if you dyed your hair electric blue, that would make my year.
Posted by: Sarah at July 29, 2005 03:24 PM
