Toadfish Monastery

1) What is your favourite season?
Where I live, we have three seasons--winter, summer and in between. I like the in between because it's a perfect 75*F all day long.
2) Chicken or fish?
CHICKEN!
3) Flowers or green plants?
Green plants, I think. More soothing.
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1. Favorite weather?

2. What is your favorite comfort food?

3. Who are you (or would you, if you were an American) thinking about voting for in the 2008 Presidential Election?

1. Favorite weather?

The sort of coolish analogue to Fall that we have here.

Something with temps between 65 and 75 F, with light breezes and maybe a short rain shower every afternoon would be good. (Rural Puerto Rico, for example.)

2. What is your favorite comfort food?

As my ability to eat certain foods is stopped by my f&%$ng illness, I'm down to mac and cheese, chicken sammiches and garlic&onioned teriyaki rice.

And chocolate.

3. Who are you (or would you, if you were an American) thinking about voting for in the 2008 Presidential Election?

By choice, never mind availability:

Edwards
Gore
Kucinich
Obama
Anybody else Democrat
Hillary

And Obama ONLY if his platform and VP bound him to stay pretty far away from the Corporate Moneymen that are buying access to him as Hillary Insurance. (If she doesn't win the primary. They've got her bought and delivered.)

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1. Do you 'collect' anything? (Not a 'set' collection of one-every-so-often plates, or that sort of thing, but--well, I collect Zebras and zebra print things. I also collect audio recordings of certain music selections, even the bad ones.) If so, what is it?

2. Is there something you've always wanted to do for fun that you've been embarrassed to try?

3. Vhich is more important to you? Being right or being polite?

1. Do you 'collect' anything? (Not a 'set' collection of one-every-so-often plates, or that sort of thing, but--well, I collect Zebras and zebra print things. I also collect audio recordings of certain music selections, even the bad ones.) If so, what is it?

Yarrgghhh, I collect metal lunchboxes of the fifties and sixties and seventies. I've got about 48 of them. They make me happy. I don't know why. Maybe because my mom made me carry a brown paper bag lunch to school.

2. Is there something you've always wanted to do for fun that you've been embarrassed to try?

I think I'd like to dance naked in the rain. Just sounds like fun.

3. Vhich is more important to you? Being right or being polite?
Wow.

Tough question. I want to say I'd rather be right, but life has taught me that "right" can be relative. At least with manners there are rules. Still, if it's a matter grave enough, I find myself piping up for what I'm seeing as "right" if I feel that right thing would be threatened by my silence. So my answer is: it depends on how important it is. And yes, I hate that answer too.

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1) Have you ever felt so embarassed that you vowed never to show your face in the place of embarassment again?

2) Have you ever felt so full of gladness that the sun seemed to shine right through you like you weren't even there?

3) Do people who write silly questions annoy the heck out of you?

BONUS QUESTION: Did you know that the okra plant has beautiful flowers?

No. Yes. Yes. No.

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1: Do people who don't elaborate on answers annoy you?

2: What job (real job that exists) do you feel would be your dream job?

3: Why?

Depends on the question, any dream job would involve dreaming, because it couldn't be called a dream job otherwise.

BONUS question: Is subversion useful?

Since you didn't properly answer those questions, I will.

1: Do people who don't elaborate on answers annoy you?
No.

2: What job (real job that exists) do you feel would be your dream job?
A photographer for National Geographic.

3: Why?
Why not? I get to travel and take photographs. I'd be published in an internationally respected magazine.
BONUS: Yes, very useful. Which is why governments flip out about it.
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1. Could you make a living doing what you love?

2. Are you a good driver?

3. Who is your least favorite political candidate (any country, any level, any year)?

1. Could you make a living doing what you love?

I did. Not a GOOD living, but enough to barely survive. (florist.)

2. Are you a good driver?

Excellent. Even when I'm not feeling my best, I am 'the driver' when a group goes somewhere, even if it's not my vehicle. AS has been stated by many people that have ridden with me, I'm hyperaware of all my surroundings and skilled at the maneuvers needed to avoid adjacent bad drivers.

Never an at-fault accident, only been struck while immobile, with the exception of the Chief of Police's nephew running a red light at 3 AM and broadsiding me, for which I was ticketed for "failure to observe vehicle in intersection." He was doing 75, I was doing 20, in a residential area. Like I said, cop's nephew.

3. Who is your least favorite political candidate (any country, any level, any year)?

Easy. Hitler.

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1. Would you accept the power of life or death over another person?

2. Do you consider yourself a moral person?

3. Milk chocolate, dark chocolate or caramel?

1. Would you accept the power of life or death over another person?

Not if I could possibly help it.  But, if _I_ am the most qualified person to assume the responsibility, then I will do it.

2. Do you consider yourself a moral person?

Yes.  Far from perfect at it, but yes, I try.  Honesty is the most basic principle, and I try to utilize that whenever possible. (but, in my older age, I've finally learned that sometimes the _correct_ answer is NOT the most honest one.  People are worth more that being brutally honest all the time.)

3. Milk chocolate, dark chocolate or caramel?
Yes.

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1) If you had a choice between driving a car to get from "A" to "B" or using a Star Trek-esque transporter for your routine travels, which would you choose?

2) What traits/positions do you look for FIRST in a potential political candidate?  What traits/positions are a "deal killer"? (if any)

3) If you had to grow your own food all the time, what would you choose to grow? (animals included, but you'd have to feed'em somehow-- part of the "grow your own food" conditions)

1) If you had a choice between driving a car to get from "A" to "B" or using a Star Trek-esque transporter for your routine travels, which would you choose?
Depends--what's the best option for the price and any damage to the world? If it's less than about two miles, I'll walk, thanks.

2) What traits/positions do you look for FIRST in a potential political candidate?  What traits/positions are a "deal killer"? (if any)

Sanity and balance. Those are my two bigguns.
Cuddling with/being a fundie = total and utter deal beaker.

3) If you had to grow your own food all the time, what would you choose to grow? (animals included, but you'd have to feed'em somehow-- part of the "grow your own food" conditions)
Tomatoes, herbs, corn (me and the chickens), celery, apples, various citrus and stone fruits, a couple types of berries, alfalfa and wheat (for me and the cattle and sheep), sugar cane, peppers, spices, coco plants, coffee trees, tea, flowers and various other flowering plants (for the bees), rhubarb, fish, and rice.
You didn't place limits on me, so, hypothetically, I can do this.
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1. If you could have chosen what era you were born in, which one would you pick?

2. Why?

3. What's the fanciest dish you've ever made?

1. If you could have chosen what era you were born in, which one would you pick?

Barring the future, today.

2. Why?

Modern medicine, for the most part.  Without antibiotics, I would have died at about 30...a very bad pleural infection.

3. What's the fanciest dish you've ever made?

Probably fettuccine carbonara.   A real cholesterol bomb waiting to happen.

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1)  What is your favorite place to go think?

2)  What is your favorite cuisine?

3)  Ford or Chevy?

1)  What is your favorite place to go think?

Good weather, my porch. Bad weather, my bed.

2)  What is your favorite cuisine?

Chinese, followed by Italian. All limited by my weird (enforced by pain) eating habits.

3)  Ford or Chevy?

Car or truck? Car, neither, gimme a Japanese or Korean make, as they're more dependable.

Truck? OK, now we gotta discuss power plant, uses, payload...

General truck, an F-150 is usually an efficient and reasonably priced choice. If I need to get a bit more power, the pricing schedule of the 250 and 350's make me check and see what Chevy is up to. You can generally get a better price on an up-power Chevy that what the 250/350 pricing scale is (EOYM sales excluded), but if I'm gonna get a "Chevy" truck, I will look at a GMC first--less money in trim and "foo-foo" stuff.

For a van, I would look for an old one with that 350 V-8 big block if I needed a full size delivery vehicle. Those engines can go forever...

In the big pickups...my favorite used to be anything with a Cummins diesel power plant. Recently, the GMC 365 Duramax has outperformed it by a country mile, including fuel efficiency. The 4x4 handles like a luxury sedan, too--independent front suspension.

Oh, damn, I'm soundin' like a gearhead again...



1. Favorite chip/crisp flavor?

2. Do you like fondues and other foods served as/with dips?

3. Who's the whackiest? L Ron Hubbard or Fred Phelps?

1. Favorite chip/crisp flavor?

I'm not that choosy, but I think green onion is my fav.

2. Do you like fondues and other foods served as/with dips?

Yes.  My general philosophy of food is try it once, twice if I like it, three times just to make sure.

3. Who's the whackiest? L Ron Hubbard or Fred Phelps?

Phelps.  Phelps is just plain wacky.  Hubbard, I think, was sly as a fox.  His followers, for the most part, however...(how anyone could think of that bad sci-fi story as acceptable religion completely baffles me)

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1)  What is the most important invention of all of human history?

2)  Who is your favorite sci-fi author?

3)  Do you like garlic?

1)  What is the most important invention of all of human history?
Control of fire, I think (although the canonical answer is sliced bread)

2)  Who is your favorite sci-fi author?
Lem (dead), Adams(also dead). There are a number of less well-known ones I like, some of them still alive

3)  Do you like garlic?
In moderate quantities as condiment but not as a vegetable itself (same with onions)

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1) What is your favorite monster (the FSM and the Muppets excluded)?

2) Are you also affected by trashophilia cinematica (aka Morbus Wood)?

3) Is it time for the next Bond parody?

1) What is your favorite monster (the FSM and the Muppets excluded)?

Oh, it has to be Mothra: grandly fake with visible strings, strong female, offspring-protective, fabulously patterned, roaring, spewing, furiously flapping, called through song by twin fairies in matching 1960's Jackie Kennedy outfits- what more could I ask for?!?

2) Are you also affected by trashophilia cinematica (aka Morbus Wood)?

If you mean a fascination for crappy films made before 1975, then yes! (See above) I used to live for the Psychotronic Film Society screenings. I miss Mystery Science Theater 3000. Give me "Plan Nine From Outer Space", "Faster Pussycat- Kill! Kill!" "Spider Babies" and just about any Godzilla flick.

3) Is it time for the next Bond parody?

As long as it's a parody and as long as they go completely over the top with it.


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1) Peppermint, spearmint, wintergreen, or cinnamon?

2) What is the thing that calms you down the most?

3) Which would you choose: seeing through time or seeing through space?

1) Peppermint, spearmint, wintergreen, or cinnamon?
Depends on what it's used in.
Chewing gums- Spearmint.
Spice and scent- Cinnamon I love Cinnamon.

2) What is the thing that calms you down the most?
Water. Preferable a large lake or even better the sea. It doesn't matter if it's calm or stormy looking out over a large body of water cleanses my soul. 

3) Which would you choose: seeing through time or seeing through space?
Space I think.
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1) Apples or Oranges?

2) Do you believe in love at first sight?

3) Favourite season?