dykes to watch out for
Saturday, January 27, 2007
Monday, January 22, 2007
some days, i am ... poison ivy
if i were ambitious enough, i'd play with the formatting here [does it look funny on your screen? it does on mine.] if you're ambitious enough, you can be a guinea pig in the agony lab.
Your results:
You are Poison Ivy
Click here to take the Super Villain Personality Test
Your results:
You are Poison Ivy
| You would go to almost any length for the protection of the environment including manipulation and elimination. |
Click here to take the Super Villain Personality Test
today, i am ... spiderman
Your results:
You are Spider-Man
Click here to take the Superhero Personality Test
You are Spider-Man
| You are intelligent, witty, a bit geeky and have great power and responsibility.  |
Click here to take the Superhero Personality Test
Tuesday, January 9, 2007
i'd be a perpetual student if only i could afford it.
oh ... wait ... if i should ever disappear from view, y'all can probably find me here.
Monday, January 8, 2007
Saturday, January 6, 2007
...nearest book...page 123...sentences 6-8...
poachers
tom franklin
"Donald," Henry says.
"Okay, Donny, look. Give me twenty bucks and a ride, and I'll blow you. Deal?"
ok, so that was sentences six through nine. so shoot me. and actually the nearest book was a spanish/englsih dictionary and words 6-8 on page 123 are: circon [zircon], circonio [zirconium], circuir [to surround]. the book under that one was an english dictionary, words 6-8, page 123: breezy, Bremen, Brenner Pass.
found this one at black sky theory
tom franklin
"Donald," Henry says.
"Okay, Donny, look. Give me twenty bucks and a ride, and I'll blow you. Deal?"
ok, so that was sentences six through nine. so shoot me. and actually the nearest book was a spanish/englsih dictionary and words 6-8 on page 123 are: circon [zircon], circonio [zirconium], circuir [to surround]. the book under that one was an english dictionary, words 6-8, page 123: breezy, Bremen, Brenner Pass.
found this one at black sky theory
Friday, January 5, 2007
holding a gun to your head...
1. Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly?
gene kelly. i think.
2. The Great Gatsby or The Sun Also Rises?
The Sun Also Rises.
3. Count Basie or Duke Ellington?
shoot me now, don't make me choose.
4. Cats or dogs?
dogs, cats, horses, fish, turtles, snakes, hamsters, gerbils, and that's just for starters.
5. Matisse or Picasso? Matisse probably.
picasso, for the ceramics.
6. Yeats or Eliot?
rumpleteazer and j alfred prufrock.
7. Buster Keaton or Charlie Chaplin?
another "shoot me now."
8. Flannery O?Connor or John Updike?
O'Connor.
9. To Have and Have Not or Casablanca?
Casablanca.
10. Jackson Pollock or Willem de Kooning?
Pollock.
11. The Who or the Stones?
The Who. "Tommy".
12. Philip Larkin or Sylvia Plath?
neither. does this make up for the "shoot me nows?"
13. Trollope or Dickens?
Dickens.
14. Billie Holiday or Ella Fitzgerald?
oh gosh. another one. both.
15. Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy?
Dostoyevsky.
16. The Moviegoer or The End of the Affair?
don't know enough about either. the phrase "end of the affair" describes more parts of my life than does the phrase "the moviegoer."
17. George Balanchine or Martha Graham?
martha.
18. Hot dogs or hamburgers?
hot dogs.
19. Letterman or Leno?
johnny carson.
20. Wilco or Cat Power?
um, dunno. are we talking "roger, wilco, over and out" vs caterpillar brand heavy equipment? Cat Power, then.
21. Verdi or Wagner?
ugh. opera. neither.
22. Grace Kelly or Marilyn Monroe?
grace kelly.
23. Bill Monroe or Johnny Cash?
Johnny Cash, but barely.
24. Kingsley or Martin Amis?
don't know enough about either.
25. Robert Mitchum or Marlon Brando?
Robert Mitchum. maybe. probably neither.
26. Mark Morris or Twyla Tharp?
Twyla Tharp.
27. Vermeer or Rembrandt?
Rembrandt. i think.
28. Tchaikovsky or Chopin?
Tchaikovsky.
29. Red wine or white?
red.
30. Noël Coward or Oscar Wilde?
Oscar Wilde.
31. Grosse Pointe Blank or High Fidelity?
i'm clueless.
32. Shostakovich or Prokofiev?
Shostakovitch. Prokofiev.
33. Mikhail Baryshnikov or Rudolf Nureyev?
Baryshnikov.
34. Constable or Turner?
constable. no, turner. no, constable. please don't shoot me.
35. The Searchers or Rio Bravo?
i'm clue[less] again.
36. Comedy or tragedy?
comedy.
37. Fall or spring?
summer.
38. Manet or Monet?
neither, actually.
39. The Sopranos or The Simpsons?
I stopped watching TV with the Simpsons, so the Simpsons it is.
40. Rodgers and Hart or Gershwin and Gershwin?
both. neither. either.
41. Joseph Conrad or Henry James?
don't know henry james and didn't like heart of darkness.
42. Sunset or sunrise?
Sunset.
43. Johnny Mercer or Cole Porter?
tossup.
44. Mac or PC?
i'm a gadgethead and a geek. both. plus, commodore. plus some homemade ones in the past.
45. New York or Los Angeles?
New York. if only the climate were more like southern california, though.
46. Partisan Review or Horizon?
never heard of either.
47. Stax or Motown?
shoot me now.
48. Van Gogh or Gauguin?
Van Gogh. but not by much.
49. Steely Dan or Elvis Costello?
elvis costello. abbot and costello.
50. Reading a blog or reading a magazine?
i'll read anything.
51. John Gielgud or Laurence Olivier?
gielgud.
52. Only the Lonely or Songs for Swingin? Lovers?
Only the Lonely.
53. Chinatown or Bonnie and Clyde?
neither.
54. Ghost World or Election?
never heard of either.
55. Minimalism or conceptual art?
to look at? or to do?
56. Daffy Duck or Bugs Bunny?
pink panther. road runner.
57. Modernism or postmodernism?
i'm fuzzy on which was when.
58. Batman or Spider-Man?
Batman!
59. Emmylou Harris or Lucinda Williams?
emmylou.
60. Johnson or Boswell?
both were before my time.
61. Jane Austen or Virginia Woolf?
shoot.
62. The Honeymooners or The Dick Van Dyke Show?
dick van dyke.
63. An Eames chair or a Noguchi table?
those tables look cool, but i need to be able to see the furniture so i can get out of its way, so i guess it's the ugly chair. this one's not too bad.
64. Out of the Past or Double Indemnity?
shoot me for being clueless.
65. The Marriage of Figaro or Don Giovanni?
neither.
66. Blue or green?
purple.
67. A Midsummer Night's Dream or As You Like It?
both.
68. Ballet or opera?
ballet.
69. Film or live theater?
Live theater.
70. Acoustic or electric?
both. unapologetic.
71. North by Northwest or Vertigo?
north by northwest.
72. Sargent or Whistler?
sargent.
73. V.S. Naipaul or Milan Kundera?
i'd never heard of either till now. sigh. more to add to the reading list.
74. The Music Man or Oklahoma?
musicals beat opera. i think.
75. Sushi, yes or no?
Yes!
76. The New Yorker under Ross or Shawn?
don't know. don't care.
77. Tennessee Williams or Edward Albee?
to read the words on the page? albee. the stories? williams.
78. The Portrait of a Lady or The Wings of the Dove?
don't know either. i'm beginning to feel stoopid.
79. Paul Taylor or Merce Cunningham?
at least i've heard of merce cunningham.
80. Frank Lloyd Wright or Mies van der Rohe?
Frank Lloyd Wright.
81. Diana Krall or Norah Jones?
can't decide. could live without either if forced to.
82. Watercolor or pastel?
pastel.
83. Bus or subway?
subway. double-decker bus. feet.
84. Stravinsky or Schoenberg?
eh.
85. Crunchy or smooth peanut butter?
smooth. all-natural. organic. cis-fats for me, please, none of that hydrogenated stuff.
86. Willa Cather or Theodore Dreiser?
another shoot me.
87. Schubert or Mozart?
really, i'm not much on classical music.
88. The Fifties or the Twenties?
roaring 20s.
89. Huckleberry Finn or Moby-Dick?
huck finn. except that i've never lived in huck finn's part of the country.
90. Thomas Mann or James Joyce?
don't know mann. don't appreciate joyce.
91. Lester Young or Coleman Hawkins?
another clueless moment.
92. Emily Dickinson or Walt Whitman?
Emily Dickinson.
93. Abraham Lincoln or Winston Churchill?
i'm glad we had them both.
94. Liz Phair or Aimee Mann?
don't knoe either of them.
95. Italian or French cooking?
italian. just barely.
96. Bach on piano or harpsichord?
Harpsichord. wait. Bach on the organ in a great old church.
97. Anchovies, yes or no?
Yes.
98. Short novels or long ones?
as long as there are words on the page, i'll keep reading. it's a good thing books end.
99. Swing or bebop?
bebop.
100. "The Last Judgment" or "The Last Supper"?
are we there yet?
see how some other people answered.
[and find out who all i cribbed from]
gene kelly. i think.
2. The Great Gatsby or The Sun Also Rises?
The Sun Also Rises.
3. Count Basie or Duke Ellington?
shoot me now, don't make me choose.
4. Cats or dogs?
dogs, cats, horses, fish, turtles, snakes, hamsters, gerbils, and that's just for starters.
5. Matisse or Picasso? Matisse probably.
picasso, for the ceramics.
6. Yeats or Eliot?
rumpleteazer and j alfred prufrock.
7. Buster Keaton or Charlie Chaplin?
another "shoot me now."
8. Flannery O?Connor or John Updike?
O'Connor.
9. To Have and Have Not or Casablanca?
Casablanca.
10. Jackson Pollock or Willem de Kooning?
Pollock.
11. The Who or the Stones?
The Who. "Tommy".
12. Philip Larkin or Sylvia Plath?
neither. does this make up for the "shoot me nows?"
13. Trollope or Dickens?
Dickens.
14. Billie Holiday or Ella Fitzgerald?
oh gosh. another one. both.
15. Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy?
Dostoyevsky.
16. The Moviegoer or The End of the Affair?
don't know enough about either. the phrase "end of the affair" describes more parts of my life than does the phrase "the moviegoer."
17. George Balanchine or Martha Graham?
martha.
18. Hot dogs or hamburgers?
hot dogs.
19. Letterman or Leno?
johnny carson.
20. Wilco or Cat Power?
um, dunno. are we talking "roger, wilco, over and out" vs caterpillar brand heavy equipment? Cat Power, then.
21. Verdi or Wagner?
ugh. opera. neither.
22. Grace Kelly or Marilyn Monroe?
grace kelly.
23. Bill Monroe or Johnny Cash?
Johnny Cash, but barely.
24. Kingsley or Martin Amis?
don't know enough about either.
25. Robert Mitchum or Marlon Brando?
Robert Mitchum. maybe. probably neither.
26. Mark Morris or Twyla Tharp?
Twyla Tharp.
27. Vermeer or Rembrandt?
Rembrandt. i think.
28. Tchaikovsky or Chopin?
Tchaikovsky.
29. Red wine or white?
red.
30. Noël Coward or Oscar Wilde?
Oscar Wilde.
31. Grosse Pointe Blank or High Fidelity?
i'm clueless.
32. Shostakovich or Prokofiev?
Shostakovitch. Prokofiev.
33. Mikhail Baryshnikov or Rudolf Nureyev?
Baryshnikov.
34. Constable or Turner?
constable. no, turner. no, constable. please don't shoot me.
35. The Searchers or Rio Bravo?
i'm clue[less] again.
36. Comedy or tragedy?
comedy.
37. Fall or spring?
summer.
38. Manet or Monet?
neither, actually.
39. The Sopranos or The Simpsons?
I stopped watching TV with the Simpsons, so the Simpsons it is.
40. Rodgers and Hart or Gershwin and Gershwin?
both. neither. either.
41. Joseph Conrad or Henry James?
don't know henry james and didn't like heart of darkness.
42. Sunset or sunrise?
Sunset.
43. Johnny Mercer or Cole Porter?
tossup.
44. Mac or PC?
i'm a gadgethead and a geek. both. plus, commodore. plus some homemade ones in the past.
45. New York or Los Angeles?
New York. if only the climate were more like southern california, though.
46. Partisan Review or Horizon?
never heard of either.
47. Stax or Motown?
shoot me now.
48. Van Gogh or Gauguin?
Van Gogh. but not by much.
49. Steely Dan or Elvis Costello?
elvis costello. abbot and costello.
50. Reading a blog or reading a magazine?
i'll read anything.
51. John Gielgud or Laurence Olivier?
gielgud.
52. Only the Lonely or Songs for Swingin? Lovers?
Only the Lonely.
53. Chinatown or Bonnie and Clyde?
neither.
54. Ghost World or Election?
never heard of either.
55. Minimalism or conceptual art?
to look at? or to do?
56. Daffy Duck or Bugs Bunny?
pink panther. road runner.
57. Modernism or postmodernism?
i'm fuzzy on which was when.
58. Batman or Spider-Man?
Batman!
59. Emmylou Harris or Lucinda Williams?
emmylou.
60. Johnson or Boswell?
both were before my time.
61. Jane Austen or Virginia Woolf?
shoot.
62. The Honeymooners or The Dick Van Dyke Show?
dick van dyke.
63. An Eames chair or a Noguchi table?
those tables look cool, but i need to be able to see the furniture so i can get out of its way, so i guess it's the ugly chair. this one's not too bad.
64. Out of the Past or Double Indemnity?
shoot me for being clueless.
65. The Marriage of Figaro or Don Giovanni?
neither.
66. Blue or green?
purple.
67. A Midsummer Night's Dream or As You Like It?
both.
68. Ballet or opera?
ballet.
69. Film or live theater?
Live theater.
70. Acoustic or electric?
both. unapologetic.
71. North by Northwest or Vertigo?
north by northwest.
72. Sargent or Whistler?
sargent.
73. V.S. Naipaul or Milan Kundera?
i'd never heard of either till now. sigh. more to add to the reading list.
74. The Music Man or Oklahoma?
musicals beat opera. i think.
75. Sushi, yes or no?
Yes!
76. The New Yorker under Ross or Shawn?
don't know. don't care.
77. Tennessee Williams or Edward Albee?
to read the words on the page? albee. the stories? williams.
78. The Portrait of a Lady or The Wings of the Dove?
don't know either. i'm beginning to feel stoopid.
79. Paul Taylor or Merce Cunningham?
at least i've heard of merce cunningham.
80. Frank Lloyd Wright or Mies van der Rohe?
Frank Lloyd Wright.
81. Diana Krall or Norah Jones?
can't decide. could live without either if forced to.
82. Watercolor or pastel?
pastel.
83. Bus or subway?
subway. double-decker bus. feet.
84. Stravinsky or Schoenberg?
eh.
85. Crunchy or smooth peanut butter?
smooth. all-natural. organic. cis-fats for me, please, none of that hydrogenated stuff.
86. Willa Cather or Theodore Dreiser?
another shoot me.
87. Schubert or Mozart?
really, i'm not much on classical music.
88. The Fifties or the Twenties?
roaring 20s.
89. Huckleberry Finn or Moby-Dick?
huck finn. except that i've never lived in huck finn's part of the country.
90. Thomas Mann or James Joyce?
don't know mann. don't appreciate joyce.
91. Lester Young or Coleman Hawkins?
another clueless moment.
92. Emily Dickinson or Walt Whitman?
Emily Dickinson.
93. Abraham Lincoln or Winston Churchill?
i'm glad we had them both.
94. Liz Phair or Aimee Mann?
don't knoe either of them.
95. Italian or French cooking?
italian. just barely.
96. Bach on piano or harpsichord?
Harpsichord. wait. Bach on the organ in a great old church.
97. Anchovies, yes or no?
Yes.
98. Short novels or long ones?
as long as there are words on the page, i'll keep reading. it's a good thing books end.
99. Swing or bebop?
bebop.
100. "The Last Judgment" or "The Last Supper"?
are we there yet?
see how some other people answered.
[and find out who all i cribbed from]
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