30-year meme swunked from kennahijja (because I woke up in the middle of the night)
1. What bill do you hate paying the most?
What, there are any you line? But seriously, gas and electricity have been obscene and make me have murderous thoughts about directors, shareholders and privatizers.
2. Where was the last place you had a romantic dinner?
My old shared home in Leyton, actually.
3. What do you really want to be doing right now?
Write a passionate panegyric for a man who's been dead a quarter of a century. What do you do when you find out that a man who was so far above you that you had to bend your neck to look up at him has seriously done you a major kindness, and you did not find out for 24 years?
4. How many colleges did you attend?
St. John's College, University of Oxford, and, (alas), School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
5. Why did you choose the shirt that you have on right now?
It was around and it was washed.
6. What are your thoughts on gas prices?
Gas and electricity prices are living evidence of collusion and cartelization.
7. First thought when the alarm went off this morning?
I don't have an alarm.
8. Last thought before going to sleep last night?
Well, it still is last night as I am writing, so cf. question three.
9. Do you miss being a child?
No comment.
10. What errand/chore do you despise?
I kind of like errands and chores. The worst thing about most is that I might not be doing them well, and that I am lazy. But the only ones I hate are major breakdowns like the clogging of a drainpipe or the collapse of a heater.
11. Get up early or sleep in?
Depends. I used to think I was an evening person, but I found that is not really the case.
12. Have you found real love yet?
Too often.
13. Favorite lunch meat?
Bresaola rolled around a grissino.
14. What do you get every time you go into Wal-Mart?
It's called Asda in this country, and it always looks cheap and crowded. But they do have an amazing variety of stuff and it's cheap.
15. Beach or lake?
Lake. One thing that will never change is that I am a mountain person and beach holidays bore me unutterably.
16. Do you think marriage is an outdated ritual?
Do I think brething is an outdated ritual?
17. Sopranos or Desperate Housewives?
Neither. Can we please have something that does not insult our most basic moral sense?
18. What famous person would you like to have dinner with?
Gilbert Keith Chesterton.
19. Have you ever crashed your vehicle?
Two-three times, if bicycles count.
20. Ever use a fire extinguisher for its intended purpose?
Only in training as a security guard long ago. But I did have a real fire in my last flat, so my current one is well provided with extinguishers (plural).
21. Ring tone?
I don't use portable phones - it's too like being at the end of a long leash. In fact, I loathe the telephone altogether and I wish my countryman Antonio Meucci had seen fit to invent a jet-pack instead.
22. Strangest place you have ever brushed your teeth?
Army barracks in Sassari and L'Aquila.
23. Somewhere in California you've never been and would like to go?
I'm still short of places in Italy - but sure, I won't mind visiting Yosemite Park or San Francisco or Disneyland or the Mojave Desert if the opportunity ever comes.
24. At this point in your life would you rather start a new career or a new relationship?
I would fuck up either, but I am working on a new career anyway.
25. How old are you
47 until next July
26. Do you have a go to person?
No, never did. Very occasionally, my mother.
27. Are you where you want to be in life?
Is that meant to be a funny question?
28. Growing up, what were your favourite cartoons?
Classic Popeye the Sailor. Also Disney. Also Japanese big robots - but I did not dare say that at the time, because it was all the fashion to despise them in Italy then.
29. What about you do you think has changed the most?
I am more constructive, and I know a bit more about managing money.
30. Looking back at high school were they the best years of your life?
No comment.
31. Are there times you still feel like a kid?
When I read old sixties comics - only the good ones, though. The dull ones only make me feel bored.
32. Did you ever own troll dolls?
I think I have one now, if that counts.
33. Did you have a pager?
Never had one, and never will have anything similar. Check my answer on portable phones: I would loathe to feel like I'm on the end of someone's leash. If I ever were given a pager by some well-meaning person, it would be sure to suffer an unfortunate incident involving the nearest river very soon.
34. Where was the hang out spot when you were a teenager?
No comment.
35. Were you the type of kid you would want your children to hang out with?
Christ, no.
What, there are any you line? But seriously, gas and electricity have been obscene and make me have murderous thoughts about directors, shareholders and privatizers.
2. Where was the last place you had a romantic dinner?
My old shared home in Leyton, actually.
3. What do you really want to be doing right now?
Write a passionate panegyric for a man who's been dead a quarter of a century. What do you do when you find out that a man who was so far above you that you had to bend your neck to look up at him has seriously done you a major kindness, and you did not find out for 24 years?
4. How many colleges did you attend?
St. John's College, University of Oxford, and, (alas), School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
5. Why did you choose the shirt that you have on right now?
It was around and it was washed.
6. What are your thoughts on gas prices?
Gas and electricity prices are living evidence of collusion and cartelization.
7. First thought when the alarm went off this morning?
I don't have an alarm.
8. Last thought before going to sleep last night?
Well, it still is last night as I am writing, so cf. question three.
9. Do you miss being a child?
No comment.
10. What errand/chore do you despise?
I kind of like errands and chores. The worst thing about most is that I might not be doing them well, and that I am lazy. But the only ones I hate are major breakdowns like the clogging of a drainpipe or the collapse of a heater.
11. Get up early or sleep in?
Depends. I used to think I was an evening person, but I found that is not really the case.
12. Have you found real love yet?
Too often.
13. Favorite lunch meat?
Bresaola rolled around a grissino.
14. What do you get every time you go into Wal-Mart?
It's called Asda in this country, and it always looks cheap and crowded. But they do have an amazing variety of stuff and it's cheap.
15. Beach or lake?
Lake. One thing that will never change is that I am a mountain person and beach holidays bore me unutterably.
16. Do you think marriage is an outdated ritual?
Do I think brething is an outdated ritual?
17. Sopranos or Desperate Housewives?
Neither. Can we please have something that does not insult our most basic moral sense?
18. What famous person would you like to have dinner with?
Gilbert Keith Chesterton.
19. Have you ever crashed your vehicle?
Two-three times, if bicycles count.
20. Ever use a fire extinguisher for its intended purpose?
Only in training as a security guard long ago. But I did have a real fire in my last flat, so my current one is well provided with extinguishers (plural).
21. Ring tone?
I don't use portable phones - it's too like being at the end of a long leash. In fact, I loathe the telephone altogether and I wish my countryman Antonio Meucci had seen fit to invent a jet-pack instead.
22. Strangest place you have ever brushed your teeth?
Army barracks in Sassari and L'Aquila.
23. Somewhere in California you've never been and would like to go?
I'm still short of places in Italy - but sure, I won't mind visiting Yosemite Park or San Francisco or Disneyland or the Mojave Desert if the opportunity ever comes.
24. At this point in your life would you rather start a new career or a new relationship?
I would fuck up either, but I am working on a new career anyway.
25. How old are you
47 until next July
26. Do you have a go to person?
No, never did. Very occasionally, my mother.
27. Are you where you want to be in life?
Is that meant to be a funny question?
28. Growing up, what were your favourite cartoons?
Classic Popeye the Sailor. Also Disney. Also Japanese big robots - but I did not dare say that at the time, because it was all the fashion to despise them in Italy then.
29. What about you do you think has changed the most?
I am more constructive, and I know a bit more about managing money.
30. Looking back at high school were they the best years of your life?
No comment.
31. Are there times you still feel like a kid?
When I read old sixties comics - only the good ones, though. The dull ones only make me feel bored.
32. Did you ever own troll dolls?
I think I have one now, if that counts.
33. Did you have a pager?
Never had one, and never will have anything similar. Check my answer on portable phones: I would loathe to feel like I'm on the end of someone's leash. If I ever were given a pager by some well-meaning person, it would be sure to suffer an unfortunate incident involving the nearest river very soon.
34. Where was the hang out spot when you were a teenager?
No comment.
35. Were you the type of kid you would want your children to hang out with?
Christ, no.