Category: Friday Fives

1. The last thing you ate and drank is your username, what is it?
My new name is “Veggie Street Tacos.”

2. What is your most non-serious, heavily defended food choice opinion?
One must always get a serving of raspberries in their diet every day.

3. What’s your last meal?
Mom’s lasagne. (I have been jonesin’ for lasagne a lot lately after recently ordering the veggie lasagne from William pizza – and it is great , divine even, but I still miss Mom’s.) As my last meal, I can through caution to the wind and eat the beefy/sausagey cheesy delight.

4. What one food makes up more than 30% of your diet?
Perhaps embarrassingly, Del Taco’s Beyond Tacos is made with refried pintos and ground beyond beef.

5. What is the best sandwich?
Lono will agree – a Philly Cheese Sandwich from Crazy Jerry’s down in Lonetree – the best sandwich you can find made in the back of a gas station.

*Sorry about no “Fives” last week. My web service provider’s SSL certificate had corrupted and it took a few days to get it up and running and access back to my site.

1, What is your favorite song that tells a story?

You can with really any Springsteen / Dylan catalog here. I have blogged before about Bruce and “Sherry Darling” and how he can’t wait to marry her and get their own place so he doesn’t have to drive Sherry’s mother around – that is a pretty peppy story song. And of course – “The River”

2. What is your favorite LONG song (over 7 minutes)?

I made a decision to not count live versions as that is kind of part of the thing – a live riff on a piece of the performer’s canon. So I went with Wilco and Spiders from A Ghost is Born at 10:43 and a definite rocker.

3. If somebody kidnapped you and said “You die unless you sing one song perfectly” which one would you choose?

Taking nerves into account it would be the Happy Birthday song as I suck at remembering words and verses.

4. What fictional character death hit you the hardest?

Wait – Dumbledore is dead!

5. What fictional food would you like to try?

Any of the candy confections from Hairy Potter or Willie Wonka

What a long week and I only worked 4 days – I got my third vax shot – my Moderna booster yesterday I have a really achy ary today, and a headache and general brain fog but so far no major side effects.

Woke up Monday on a chilly morning with no heater in my car. after lots of YouTube study and troubleshooting determine it is the A/C connector switch that controls the blower. I will install this little gadget on Saturday – Yay DIY me.

Here is a fun link 12ftladder Based on the principle of the best way to get over a 10-foot wall is with a 12-foot ladder – so paste a firewalled article from the web in the search function and voila you have the formally blocked content. I use it a lot on NY Time Cooking articles and for New Scientist, Scientific American, and The Wall Street Journal.

Oh wait, did I tell you I have a really gnarly headache – yeah, I do.

1. You can choose one species to go extinct, what would it be?
Head-in-the dirt-refuse-the-listen-to-any-logic-convinced-that-their-very-existence-on-the-planet-makes-them-right-about-anything-Right-wing-conservative-Americans.
2. If animals could talk, which would be the rudest?
Although the honey badger – he don’t give a shit – I am going with the baboon. They just love all that farting, shitting, and poo throwing – how rude.
3. What is your best example of ‘buy it before you need it?
Gasoline – don’t get sucked into “fill it up on empty.” The price of gasoline, like all prices right now, is pretty volatile – shop around and when you see it running low somewhere, pull over and fill it up.
4. If brands were brutally honest, what brand would have what slogan?
“Facebook – we know what you did last night!”
5. What are two pieces of popular advice that contradict each other?
“Always work to improve who you are” / “Be yourself”

1. What’s a popular food or drink that you dislike?
Pumpkin spice most anything – well except for pumpkin pie – kind of dig that a lot. But coffee flavored with pumpkin spice? I’ll pass, thank you.

2. What is your addiction?
Wow, a loaded question. Let’s take that to media – currently, I am addicted to Chicago Med streaming on the Netflixes. I love me some Oliver Platt. (Yes, Greg, we know the medicine and science is all wrong – shut up and enjoy the ride. )

3, What’s a bizarre historical event you can’t believe actually took place?
We landed a frickin’ helicopter on Mars. Read that sentence again – we landed a frickin’ helicopter on Mars.

4, Which country will start WW3? Why?
It won’t be the big nations – the US, China, or even Russia. It won’t be North Korea because they are broke and have no imperial infrastructure to influence allies. In fact, based on that we may never have a world war again as the big five (US, China, Russia, Europe, and British Commonwealth) have pretty much squashed any ability for other nations to forge any kind of alliances needed to wage a global war. There will be neighboring country skirmishes and fights over borders and resources but as long as the world economy has free trade and open trade, global war makes no economic sense and that is usually why countries go to war – when economies no long function to allow the instigator the ability to advance economically and thus they begin taking things from other nations.

5, What is the most ridiculously believed piece of misinformation?
Any other makeshift supposed cures and preventative measures the anti-vax whack jobs are using to prevent/cure getting sick with Covid-19. There is one thing that can be done – get vaccinated – it is free, effective, and easy. Millions and millions of Earthlings have taken the vaccines with no or very limited minor side effects.

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1. You’re resurrected in 1000 years. What is the first thing you would say?
“I have risen!” or also – “Wow, we fucking made – not gonna lie, I am very surprised.”

2. What movie is extremely overrated?
“M*A*S*H – the original movie. Filmatically it is great – near-perfect example of a Robert Altman film – but the script – wow, it does not hold up. So sexist and misogynistic.

3. What feels like a cult, and is in fact a cult?
Trumpism – the loyalty and devotion to that man and his acolytes meets all requirements of a cult.

4. What things probably won’t exist in 25 years?
Personal computers and laptops – there is already some pretty good development of eyewear technology that will probably replace the personal computer and smartphones.

5. What would the world be better off without?
Mass-produced corporate agricultural beef, pork, and chicken – there is no need for it and the industries are so terrible for the environment and use of massive natural resources for little return on the investment.

1. What is the stupidest way you almost died?

The first thing that comes to mind is a winter road trip over the mountains from Gunnison to Montrose and rounding a corner on a snow-packed road and driving far too fast for the conditions and came upon a couple of elk just standing in the middle of the road. I braked and slide and almost clipped one – these are huge animals and with the icy road, had I hit one of them there was a chance I could have been killed in a terrible car accident.

2. What is a thing that is universally hated by all people?

Universally is the crux of this question- there is someone out there who likes that one thing that no one else does. But generally, that thing that is universally hated is probably Nickelback.

3. What’s the worst song to play at a funeral?

“She Is Having My Baby” by Paul Anka

4. Which TV character influenced your sense of humor the most?

David Letterman

5. What was hugely hyped up but flopped?

“The Hobbit” movie – why did that have to happen? And two movies, really?

So something happened to MySQL database that powers this blog sometime last week and took the whole site down and redirected to some Church’s website – very weird. But my server provider found the issue and fixed it up. As far as I can tell all the content is back and bonus – I spend a lot of time yesterday on The You Tubes learning just an awful lot about WordPress.

1. What social customs do we need to retire?
Shaking hands. It is so cold and formal and icy and frankly, after 20 months of a pandemic, it seems quite unsafe.

2. What is one invention that you are 100% sure was only invented to annoy you?
Loud deep subwoofers in cars

(Cars – can we talk about cars? My car got raped this weekend. Overnight on Sunday, someone stole the catalytic converter right off the muffler – just a big ol’ rip right off the manifold. )

3. What food would taste absolutely disgusting if you added canned tuna?
Oh, so many things. I say popcorn – it would totally ruin two of my favorite things.

(Seriously though, the converter ripped right off. $800.00 later old Trogg is back up and running and purring like the kitten he is )

4. What do you think is the biggest animal that you can win in a fight barehanded?

A penguin – I am pretty sure I can take one.

(So, these converters are lined with platinum and palladium, and other rare metals and sold for scrap metal. )

5. How do you fall asleep?
A couple of drops of THC tincture under the tongue. My stepdad makes it and it will kick your ass.

(That’s right, someone tried to send Trogg to the scrap heat but he survives – up off the matt and ready to go – take that you criminals!)

RIP Norm you funny son of a bitch

1. What’s your favorite color this week?

I like purple to look at and blue to wear

2. What job would be very unsuitable for you?

I think I would really enjoy computer programming but I am pretty dyslexic and would probably suck really bad at it.

3. What’s your favorite Olympic sport?

I like watching table tennis and badminton.

4. Have you ever found yourself stuck out in the rain?

Not very often. I grew up in the high mountain desert and Denver doesn’t get a lot of rain very often. There have been a few commutes, especially when I worked downtown where i got caught in an afternoon thunderstorm but I never got soaked in the rain.

5. What does the tooth fairy do with our teeth?

They are used to feed the fire that fuels our dreams