Fursday Five

(Explanation)

1. What is the single most ridiculously unnecessary purchase you've ever made?

It’s possible that I once bought cigarettes. But that was hardly ridiculous if in my case entirely unnecessary, so we’ll go with that stupid-looking brown leather jacket I bought in the late 70s that I’ve still never worn. Sorry, never hired Van Halen for a birthday party. (Ooh, jeez, now that I think, the most ridiculously unnecessary purchase I've ever made would really have to be a certain firearm, thus combining ridiculous and unnecessary with .223 caliber.)

2. What is your favorite season and why?

Spring! Winter’s cold is gone except for a welcome morning chill, the days are getting longer, the air is getting warmer, the world is turning bright green, fruit trees are blossoming, summer’s on its way, birds are singing, “birds” are wearing less ...

3. Who would you want to play you in the movie adaptation of your life?

Harrison Ford. Woody Harrelson. Judge Reinhold. Gregory Peck. Twenty five years ago someone thought I looked like Sting. But these are all leading men. The actor for me would really have to be a sidekick, a co-star, a character actor whose name no one can quite remember.

4. What's your fondest memory of your bestest childhood friend?

There are many. One would be our long walks through Tilden Park where it rambles along the crest of the Berkeley Hills, far from urban noise, telling tall tales in various British accents of our derring-do in foreign wars.

5. What is the most disgusting thing you've ever eaten?

Some indescribable uncooked creature of the sea, served last summer in a Japanese restaurant in China. The texture, the flavor, even the temperature of the thing made my body scream for rejection of every kind. But I bravely kept it aboard. Because I actually ate it, this beats the so-called “stinky tofu” they have in Taipei that smells of stomach acid. Because I ate it on purpose, it also beats the baby-poop I found under my fingernails one day when I was a young father after eating lunch.

Here is where I put the rules if you want me to carry it forward but I deleted all that part because I've only thought of one question so far and my life is hella ramping up now and for the next couple months and I really need to be bloggering less, a lot less, wish me luck. But I'm not gonna delete this thing, sheesh, nobody does that!