I dunno about public mass transit other than noticing a variety of colorful characters, but I'm reminded of a lot of makeout sessions that happened on charter buses for band/orchestra trips.

Makes me want to say "this one time, at band camp..." like Alyson Hannigan.

That's a poorly veiled attack if I ever read one.

First Night Tri-Cities, WA

No, not really.

For years I rebelled against structure and wrote freeform.  Right now, it's near 9 AM and it is too early for me to be much inspired by meter.

Very good question!  I vaguely remember some suggestions (studies, even?) that women's hormones seem to be tied to phases of the moon.  Menustration, after all, literally means "that which happens monthly".  Whether men's hormones behave in a similar fashion, well, that I am unaware of.  I've also heard it said that crime rates increase with a full ( Read more... )

Jim Henson.

Time to put Ron Redden to an open shame...

What sport or game did you hate the most when you were a kid?

It was much less what I hated as to whom I hated.  Ron and Karen Redden ensured that I despised huge swaths of physical education throughout middle and high school.  Never mind that Ron was a much-lauded football coach, and the outdoor track at ( Read more... )

I would be The Stealth Bomber with the amazing S.B.D. (Silent But Deadly) gas cloud!

Imported to VOX-- now this is a fine example of how fun a QotD should be.

I have never been fond of sweet potatoes or yams, which are actually different but seem to be regarded as almost the same in the way many people refer to them interchangeably or how they cook them (although I suspect more often than not, people use sweet potatoes).  I do not like them as they are traditionally prepared for Thanksgiving, or at least ( Read more... )

No.  The only stereotype that would hold true is that I prefer to drive rather than be a passenger, and Cimmy happens to like it that way.  I do have an expectation that the driver's side passenger help out-- to look both ways at intersections, to look over maps, and things like that.  Now I would also prefer to follow a map, but I'm not above ( Read more... )