Friday Fives
1. If you were to prepare a meal that revealed your soul, what would you prepare and why?
Red wine and a tossed green salad. Enchiladas and raspberry desert. Red wine for the heart, salad for the soul. Enchiladas for the spiciness and pizzaz I want in my life. Raspberries to remind me of my youth and my family.
2. What says “romance” to you?
Listening and adventure towards the unknown and the ancient.
3. If you were to run for mayor of our fair city, what would your platform and pet projects/reforms be and why?
Light rail and train service to connect the suburbs with the city and help clear congestion and traffic. Better health care and opportunities for the homeless and disenfranchised. A focus on schools that teach, not teacher lounges full of teachers who complain – more instruction, less bureaucracy.
4. Someone presents you with a working voodoo doll. Do you use it? On who, why, and to what purpose?
Hell yeah! A few former employers and bosses are on the list. And a couple of GOP political candidates who I won’t name, less the Secret Service infiltrate my life. However I would only use the voodoo to curse and cure, not to kill. I imagine a voodoo curse for incontinence and clumsiness for the campaigners. A voodoo curse turning the uncaring or stupid employers to be more forgiving and wise (and always ready to hire and promote me, rather than lay me off at the drop of a hat (bitter? Just a tad).
5. If you came upon a time machine, where would you go? Would you alter anything? Why?
Victorian England, the time of Sherlock Holmes and foggy mystery. I would bring with me some crime fighting knowledge from our century, DNA evidence. Why? To go down in the annals of time as a great crimefighter, of course. Oh, sure, there is always altruistic things like curing disease – smallpox, polio, cancer and all that, but a Victorian crimefighter just sounds more fun.
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These are really hard. . . .
1. If you were to prepare a meal that revealed your soul, what would you prepare and why?
I don’t have a soul. Remember? I sold it to buy you those gold combs for your hair.
2. What says “romance” to you?
A truly unselfish gesture.
3. If you were to run for mayor of our fair city, what would your platform and pet projects/reforms be and why?
Reconciling our demand for city services vis-a-vis tax collections. Tough work, but it needs to be done.
4. Someone presents you with a working voodoo doll. Do you use it? On who, why, and to what purpose?
Yes. I’d start with a former manager of mine. . .a drunk man in Chicago, who would have a whole lot of lingering pain coming his way.
5. If you came upon a time machine, where would you go? Would you alter anything? Why?
I’d go into the future and bring back cures for diseases, and stock tips and sports scores.
1. Soul food? (Nice ‘Magi’ reference, Eddie) Insalata alla Caprese (a little cheesy, good for you and filled with zing), rare filet mignon (tender and tasty!) and a good sipping whiskey (soothing and tasty!). I apparently have a tasty soul.
2. What says “romance” to you? Eddie’s and Roy’s answers can’t be topped.
3. If you were to run for mayor of our fair city, what would your platform and pet projects/reforms be and why? A hovercraft for every girl and every boy!
4. Who do voodoo? I would use it, yes. The perfect tool of the vigilante. On whom? Not sure.. don’t piss me off.
5. If you came upon a time machine, where would you go? Would you alter anything? Knowing that even the slightest change to the past could drastically crater our present, I would just observe. I’d love to be present at the most controversial moments – the deaths of JFK, Jesus, Elvis and Marilyn. That’d solve a few mysteries once and for *all*.