when you've got absolutely nowt to say there's only one recourse left: talk about yourself.1. i always keep a tin of vichy mints on my desk. partly for the peppermint spritz. but also as a visible reminder of french disgrace and what a laissez-faire foreign policy can lead to.
2. i try to eat all my meals with a soup spoon.
3. i've never been flexi enough to touch my toes.
4. i can't float.
5. i've met morrissey (he signed a rare copy of "education in reverse" but wouldn't sign "james dean is not dead"—so capricious!). i'd never sell it on ebay. so don't make me an offer.
6. i dislike all opera except "tristan und isolde".
7. i still have the yo-yo (a coca-cola fibreglass super-russell) from my first yo-yo season in 1980. the twirl kings put on a demonstration at my school.
8. my favourite shirt collar is the "grandpa" style, though i don't own any. (it's an anomaly.) mostly i stick to button-down oxfords.
9. if i didn't have to vote i wouldn't.
10. i never solved the cube unaided (reading the book is cheating, folks).
11. i gave away or sold almost all my pop music when i was 23. i found i had outgrown it (though i did manage to see "the ramones" before they died).
12. i've lived in the far east. i wouldn't recommend it. the west is much better.
13. politically i am disengaged; not a partisan. but if i had to define myself politically my slogan would be "pro dreyfus, contre dreyfusard". details on request.
14. my favourite book is "franny and zooey".
15. mr burns is my favourite "simpsons" character.
16. i like to get my shirts sewn up the front so they can't be unbuttoned—you slip them over your head. i lost so many buttons brawling in high school i decided to do away with them.
17. apart from fruit, food bores me.
18. i read "doonesbury" every day. i have almost 8000 of them saved on hard disc. funny stuff.
19. having used apples for the last 10 years, i'd never go back to a wintel contraption. to paraphrase hobbes: pcs are nasty, brutish, ugly and slow.
20. bauhaus is the grammar of fascism.
21. my favourite monarch is edward the first.
22. my favourite motivational, kick-up-the-pants book is st. augustine's "confessions". the e. b. pusey translation only.
23. i've been bitten by cats, dogs, ants, spiders, swans, possums and girls.
5 comments:
Being bitten by girls? Not the worst thing. *snarls*
You've not been bitten by Gretta and I view you as a Mr Burns but with a bit more umph to ya ;)
Gretta x
gasp! a coffee meme!
your sewn shirt fronts must be a real kink if a girl ever decided to rip over your shirt and have her way with you. think of all the buttons you could lose then.
no zoom bite yet?
I like this. Informative and intriguing!
grex. "excellent".
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