Thu Jan 18 0:18:34 1996
Name:
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How do you FEEL about food? Why do you eat?
A: Food is one of the four reasons to live (people, music, and books being the other three). I eat not only to prevent starvation, but to be a social creature and to just appreciate food.
What is your biggest flaw?
A: I am very flaky.
3 favorite authors
A: Iain Banks, Samuel R. Delany, and Harlan Ellison
What are the hallmarks of success in life?
A: Happiness, security, and friends that will go up against the wall with you.
What is your biggest mental fuck-up?
A: I am completely unable to chat up women.
What is your favorite animal?
A: The rat.
Describe it.
A: Sleek, compact, intelligent, and wily.
How long do you usually know a girl before you kiss her?
A: Until I know her long enough to not feel like a complete idiot about kissing her the next day.
Jump her?
A: Again, until it seems like we know each other well enough to be able to meet her eyes over breakfast the next morning.
Dump her?
A: When I start feeling used and abused, I head for the door.
How old were you when you first kissed?
A: 18
Had sex
A: 20
Smoked Pot?
A: I still haven't.
Do you use recreational drugs?
A: No
What?
A: The pleasant creations of my own brain.
When?
A: Whenever I stay up too late.
Still?
A: No
Have you ever been married/lived with someone?
A: Cohabitated
Who worked?
A: We both did.
Who cooked?
A: Both of us, about equally.
Who cleaned?
A: Both of usd, but she was more a neat freak than me.
Do you know how to cook?
A: Yes
Do you like to cook?
A: Yes
What are the things you cook best?
A: Seafood gumbo, Pad Thai, corn & cheese quesadillas, mushroom stroganoff, most Indian food, vegetarian lasagna
Have you ever used any of the following (which?): gel hairspray mousse cologne deoderant conditioner zitcream aftershave
A: I regularly use deodorant and conditioner and occasionally freshen up with essential oils.
What was the most crazy thing you ever did as an adolescent?
A: Scaled one of the television antennas in Portland's southwest hills.
as a college student?
A: Became a techno DJ and started making an idiot of myself in public regularly. Either that or lived with the same woman for three years. Take your pick.
as a working stiff?
A: Got a job in San Francisco on a whim instead of playing it safe and moving back to Portland.
If you were a fruit or a vegetable, what would you be?
A: What a loaded question! Umm... a kiwi. Sort of nondescript and rough on the outside, but rather sweet (if tart) inside.
If I were, what would I be?
A: A string bean. :)
If you were at a party, and across the room you saw a very handsome man and your girlfriend chatting quite animatedly, what would you do?
A: Be vaguely jealous and intimidated, go try to join the conversation, and wander away and sulk distractedly if rebuffed.
Do you think there is life after death?
A: No
On other planets?
A: No
Are you psychic?
A: No
Do you think you have any sort of understanding of what it would be like to completely insane?
A: Yes
Why?
A: Try staying up for two weeks straight sometime and then see if you feel a need to ask me that question again.
Were you ever in the armed forces?
A: No
Did you ever kiss a girl who had big, hairsprayed bangs?
A: No
What was the most important scientific achievement in the last 50 years?
A: The pill? Geosynchronous communication satellites? The internet? High-energy fusion? Analogue synthesis?
What is the biggest problem...
...all women have?
A: Passivity and an urge to nurture even the worlds' biggest losers.
...all men have?
A: Aggressiveness and a tendency to rely on women to hold their shit together for them.
...with our society?
A: Our inability to deal with social groups other than our own and our collective inability to take responsibility for collective fuckups (oppression of minorities, the environment, privacy invasions).
Which do you prefer:
A: Animals
Why?
A: Because they're a hell of a lot more fun to interact with.
If you won $1 million, what would be the very first thing you would buy?
A: A really big, really tight sound system.
The second?
A: A nice car for my long-suffering father.
The last?
A: A Bluebird motor home, converted to carry (and power) my soundsystem.
Who has been the greatest influence in your life?
A: My wise and pugnacious father.
How do people describe you?
A: Tall, emaciated, loud, obnoxious, opinionated, friendly, abusive, exuberant.
How do you describe yourself?
A: Tall, thin, obnoxious, sincere, sensitive, friendly, opinionated
Do you subscribe to any magazines/newspapers?
A: Yes
Which?
A: Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Science Fiction Eye, The Mag of Fantasy & Science Fiction, The Economist
What are your favorite shoes?
A: My Buffalo packer boots. I love my boots!
Additional Comments
A: I'm just doing this for kicks. I think I may have filled this out before, but you never even sent me mail saying you'd read it. :( Tell me if you think the image I've presented here jibes with what you know of me, because I'm really not sure how other people perceive me.