25 posts tagged “qotd”
If you had to give up one of your five senses, which one would it be?
Oh ho, this is a difficult one. Lessee, we're talking about:
- Taste
- Touch
- Sight
- Hearing
- Smell
Process of elimination will provide the easiest means of attack. And so: sight is out--to impractical to lose. Hearing is out--life without music is unworkable. Touch is out--far too much rides on touch for simple survival (is this a sharp thing or a dull thing*?) Smell is also key for survival, while taste is less so. Taste it is then: I could live without taste, as long as my eyes and ears are fed.
Glad I got THAT sorted out.
*Note: you are correct, this blog post IS in fact a dull thing. Good work!
What did you think about the Vice Presidential debate?
I think we may well be doomed.
See Matt Taibbi's article, Mad Dog Palin.
What's your alma mater?
Submitted by Lies.Knox College in Galesburg IL.
If your Vox Neighborhood had a potluck dinner tonight, what dish, drink or dessert would you bring?
I would bring a loaf of excellent bread from Central Market and a bottle of cheap but tasty red wine. Can't go wrong with bread and wine. Unless you're dining with carb-averse teetotallers. But what would I be doing that for?
Should driving while talking on a cell phone be outlawed?
Submitted by Soup.
YES, please!
What are the 10 foods you must have in your refrigerator and/or your kitchen cabinet?
Submitted by Carol.
- Stubb's barbeque sauce, Original
- White Mountain yogurt, Non-fat*
- Oats
- Skim milk, organic
- Canned tomatoes + canned beans
- Peanut butter
- Bread, whole grain or french
- The dairy twins: butter and cheese
- Fruit, and lots of it
- Maple syrup
*Fun fact: White Mountain offers a frequent buyer program in which you can redeem store receipts (showing WM yogurt purchase) for one point per dollar spent. For example, after you spend $2,250 on yogurt, you can get this serving plate! The oil lamp pictured here is YOURS FREE after only $740 worth of yogurt!
Perhaps more accessible is the handled koozie for only 40 points, which is pictured holding the 16-oz.-size WM yogurt jar. I find it unsettling to imagine situation in which I'd be drinking 16 ounces of yogurt out of a koozie. But everyone's gotta walk their own path.
What are five things that most people don't know about you?
Submitted by mika.
1. I listen to 70s and 80s soft rock hits (Firefall, Kenny Loggins, Hall & Oates)--kind of a lot. Sometimes.
2. I was deathly scared of the dark until I was 30, when I had my baby. (And began daring the BoogeyMan to get me, because if I was dead I could get some fricking sleep.)
3. I was deathly shy until my late 20s, when I decided not to be shy any more.
4. I do my best housecleaning when equipped with vodka martinis but sans clothing.
5. I secretly wish I had the style of Audrey Hepburn. Lots of people do, but it surprises me that I do.
Would you go on vacation by yourself, and if so where would you go?
Submitted by Sean & Stefan.
Oh hell yeah! I went on vacation to Seattle by myself and it was lovely. Like all things I do by myself, vacationing alone allows me to whatever the hell I want for however long I want to do it. I missed that aspect of vacationing when I recently went to Chicago with my mom and my 8-year-old. We all had a good time together but some of us were standing too long or walking too fast or bored with architecture or too hot or too tired or whatever. Same type of thing that happens with any group endeavor, whether it is lunch down the street or 3 days in the Midwest--nothing so bad, it just is what it is. I used to live in Chicago and haven't been back in 8 years, so I really wanted the freedom to just prowl around and see what's changed or not, how I have changed or not. It was hard to prowl with the whole matriarchy present.
I can't wait to go back--alone.
If you could eat only 3 foods for the rest of your life, what would they be?
Submitted by formance.
1. Pizza
2. Watermelon
3. PB&J sammiches
Who are the last five people you called on your cell phone?
The office (late for work yet again)
Raymond
My parents
Brian
Baby-daddy Grant
