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The Friday Fives

What are things that happen in movies that are totally unrealistic?

There is always just enough ammunition in the gun and amateurs are always good shots.

What plot device used to be in movies all the time and you just don’t see anymore?

Every gun had a silencer. Crashed cars always exploded and there was always quicksand.

What was the number one movie in your senior year of high school? 

E. T.  The extraterrestrial.

What is your favorite documentary film?

The multi-part music documentary “The Blues” by Martin Scorsese.

You have 30 seconds to ruin a wedding. What do you do?

I am off to a wedding this evening. Let’s see, hmm, I guess a kind of Dustin Hoffman moment in The Graduate and pounon the windows and shout “She’s mine!”

(This week’s post was typed on the WordPress app on tablet and and I can’t find it a way to fix the formatting)

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1. What’s something you bought as an adult because you weren’t allowed to have it as a child?

Oreos

2. If you were forced to watch a sport every weekend for the rest of your life, what sport would you choose?

Sepak Takraw

3. What meal you cooking for 2 with a $12 budget?

Homemade spaghetti with homemade pasta and a $7.00 bottle of zinfandel.

4. What phrase do you wish people would stop using?

“It is what it is.”

5. You’re offered $10 million to start your life over at age 10 — but you keep all your current memories. What’s your first move?

Take $9.75 million and invest in the nascent Microsoft and then live on the rest – $275,000 in 1974 dollars is a crap load of money.

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1. What is your best kitchen hack?

This little timer for making the best, easiest soft boiled eggs that come out perfect every time.



2. You have 10 minutes to make a meal (PBJ doesn’t count) what do you cook up?

See above, although I add either a spicy szechuan chili sauce, or serve the eggs on a bed or medallion of polenta.

3. What is your secret traffic hack?

I cheat and don’t have a car but the hack, when the weather cooperates is my ebike through Cherry Creek reservoir trails to get to work..

4. What is your hidden streaming/TV delight?

I have been watching a lot of MotoGP, super fast motorcycle grand prix racing on TNT. Interest started during lockdown and I have kept it up. Watching those guys take all those corners in a pelaton that fast is thrilling

5. Off topic, what song are you listening to now?

Steely Dan – “Hey Nineteen” (it was on the radio, playing in the background

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1. What’s a bad habit you’re currently trying to break?

Order out food instead of cooking at home.

2. What’s on task that you keep putting off?

Refolding and rehanging the clothes in my closet. It is supposed to be crappy all weekend so maybe this is the weekend !

3. What’s the last thing you waited in line for?  

About a year ago waiting to board a flight at the Raleigh/Durham airport.

4. What’s the last show your streamed?

Just finished watching “The Pitt” on Max. Damn, it is good and so intense.

5. Who’s the last celebrity you asked to take a selfie with you?

Colorado Rapids Goalie Tim Howard.

(Questions via US Weekly celebrity “How Much Are They Like US? )

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1. What’s your favorite root vegetable, and what’s your favorite way to eat it?

Potatoes! (Although I stumbled on a recipe for Kung Pao rutabaga that I want to try.

2. What’s your favorite leafy green, and what’s your favorite way to eat it?

Butter lettuce used as a base for a Caesar salad

3. What’s your favorite legume, and what’s your favorite way to eat it?

Pinto beans – refried and served in a burrito

4. What’s your favorite vegetable to put on a pizza?

Sun-dried tomatoes.

5. What’s your favorite fruit to eat in a green salad?

Mandarin orange slices.