1. What’s a popular food that you don’t like?
Kale. Especially in salads. I don’t get it. There are better minty/spicy leaf greens. I can handle chopped Kale in soups or stews, but that is about it.
2. What are the most clever/genius crimes ever committed?
The 1991 Father’s Day Bank massacre. James King was suspected of robbing the cash register building in downtown Denver, killing four guards, and walking away with about $200,00.00. He stood trial and was acquitted. The money was never found.
3. If driving stick-shift and writing in cursive are regarded as “Boomer skills,” and IT is viewed as a “Millennial skill,” what skill is almost exclusively associated with the Silent, Greatest, or Lost Generation?
Folks like my dad or my grandparents could walk out to a workshop in the garage and knock out a piece of furniture, pull out the transmission in the truck and pull it apart, fix it, and then replace it instead of taking it to the shop. I wouldn’t know where to start.
4. What free things on the internet should everyone take advantage of?
The public library. Steaming movies (Kanopy), ebooks and audible books (Libby), magazines, and research from Libby or Hoopla or even the libraries app in some counties.
5. What are you listening to right now?
I just finished listening to “The Undertow” by Jeff Sharlot. Nonfiction looks at Trumpland out in the heartland and how we got here. The current listen is “Thank You For Your Servitude” by Mark Leibovitz – a look at the GOP leaders and their cow-towing to Trump.
1. Ranch dressing. Hate everything about it–the flavor, the smell, the texture, the mouth feel. It’s a binary question for me–if given the choice between blue cheese and ranch, if you choose ranch I’ll never *quite* trust your judgment.
2. The armed robbery of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. While the robbers were armed, they had used a good deal of social engineering to ensure that no one got hurt. They got away with a fucking VERMEER. There are like 35 known Vermeer paintings in the world. As of today, they have still not found the robbers or the paintings.
3. The ability to make something from nothing. It still awes me when I recall some of the genius hacks that my parents and grandparents could pull off in the garage and the kitchen. They hade the innate ability to get most any mechanical thing running again, or make a meal out of absolutely nothing.
4. Porn! Porn! Porn! Fresh porn for all tastes and predilections. What a time to be alive!
5. A streaming radio station.
1) Avocados! They’re green slimy like a booger! Don’t eat boogers.
2) I’d have to say Jack the Ripper. Lots of killings never caught.
3) Direct eye contact and making phone calls.
4) The extensive skills / knowledge of all things on YouTube.
5) My wife talking stupid talk to her niece while making dumb filter faces on face time. While the TV is on as well.