1. Do you read the comics ? What is your favorite?
My favorite comics page is the Complete New Yorker. My favorite comics source is The Comics Curmudgeon. If you have gone over yet to see what Josh is ranting about, do it now.
2. David Gilmour is playing at Gdansk on Palladia on the telly. Do you have a favorit concert video?The first concert video I ever saw was Elvis Live in Hawaii, back in the day when The King would put on these elaborate televised concert specials. I remember watching it on television in glorious black and white. I adore my John Prine at Studeo 54 video as well as Bruce Springsteen Live in Barcelona (The first and only complete video of a Bruce concert with the E Street band.) With that said, the David Gilmour show referenced above was pretty amazing.
3. I am sipping on a nice California Sangiovese. Do you have a good wine story?
While living in Stuttgart, Germany, while in the army, I went to a wine festival, featuring locally grown and vinted German wines. The fest was in a small, residential neighborhood and along the streets, for several blocks, the vinters set up roadside booths where you could step up, enjoy some wonderful wine, food and music. It was truly magic.
4. It’s baseball season and this year I am obsessed with Rockies telecasts. Do you have a interest that ought to be a national past time?
My plan for global dominance through a national past time would include fresh, home roasted coffee and homemade bread. And pie. There has to be pie. (I don’t really know how to make those three interests a national past time – but there it is.)
5. When was the last time you played Scrabble or another board game?
Most family gatherings involve games but usually card games. Scrabble is a game played with a rather cutthroat vengeance by mother.
1. I read through the Post’s comic section at stoplights on my way to work each day. My must-read list is pretty embarassing, Sally Forth (Francesco Marcuiliano is brilliantly funny), One Big Happy (it’s cute), LuAnn (love the repressed sexuality), and Dilbert (hits very close to home many days).
2. DOMO! DOMO! Did Styx ever do a taping of their complete Mr. Robato show? If not, someone needs to get busy and put it on Broadway. Brilliant lyrics. “Secret secret. I’ve got a secret.”
3. Goodness. . .I do have a great wine story. After my first divorce, I found myself teaching junior high school English. One weekend, I decided to take my best friend, former hot actor Jack, on a weeklong drive up to California’s wine country. There we explored the nature of our failures and questioned our relationships. Jack, who was about to get married, had an affair with a woman and wondered whether he should call off his wedding. I questioned whether or not I made the right choice while trying to form a relationship with the woman’s best friend, a fellow oenophile who is a waitress at a restaurant that we frequent often when visiting. I eventually sit down with an expensive bottle of wine, a cheeseburger go on with living.
Oh. . .wait. . .that’s the plot of the 2004 film “Sideways.”
4. Two words: Project Runway. We should get to come in late the day after it’s on, and we should get a day off following the finale.
5. Not a huge board game fan (too competitive yet with a fragile ego). Thus I can’t remember the last time I played.
1) No. I gave up on the paper comics after Calvin & Hobbes left the pages. And I gave up comic books long ago, but loved them without a doubt.
2) Rattle and Hum…duh. And pretty much any Beatles, especially the roof top last live performance of the foursome.
3) Many good wine stories…I think sitting at a lovely Grand Junction winery that sells their wine and has a nice shade covered picnic table by the river with where to enjoy it, that is probably the most recent.
4) Improv. The whole idea of making shit up ion a national level with a mega-buttload of other people is like singing in the shower, but in on a macro level.
5) Unfortunately it has been a few months. Need to get the kiddos a little older and then give them a nice ass-kicking in Monopoly.
1)nope
2)Song Remains The Same
3)There was this one time when I whined a bunch and got what I wanted.
4)Improv.
5)A couple of weeks ago the wife gave me a beatin at scrabble.