First Ever Friday Fun
Here’s how this works: Every Friday, I post a couple of questions along with my answers. Then you, dearest readers, answer the same questions in the comments. And? We all get to know each other a little better. Maybe one day we get together and sing kumbaya.
You've been given a million dollars to donate to a worthy charity! Which organization would benefit from your generosity and why are they deserving?
Oh man, just one? In that case, probably Heifer International. I’m a big fan of the work they do and “buy” gifts for my grandparents every year from their catalog. Also, for a million smackers you could get 50,000 ducks. Or 8,333 and one-third pigs. Or 16,666 and two-thirds rabbits. If you had TWO million bucks you could get the pigs and the rabbits, and combine your one-third of a pig with your two-thirds of a rabbit and get something really scary.
You've testified against the mob and have to leave the country! Where do you go to start your new life, and what new career will you pursue?
This one is so easy. Paris, and I open a bakery. Yeah, I know, an American opening a bakery in Paris is just a bit cheeky, but it’s what I’d do. I daydream about this sometimes—the section of town it would be in (Left Bank, definitely) what the sign would look like. I’d make American bakery things: big chocolate chip cookies, apple pies, brownies; but I’d also learn to make all those marvelous French bakery things: little tiny tartlets, big flakey croissants, fluffy meringue puffs.
A movie studio has given you carte blanche to develop a sequel to a film of your choice! What's your sequel going to be about and who's starring in it?
Hmm. Not big on sequels. Tell the story right the first time, you know? Also, they tend to suck. I’d love to re-make the Star Wars prequels in a manner that doesn’t make me want to cry but I’m not sure that counts for purposes of this question. So. Movie. Sequel. Okay, here we go, cheesiest, stupidest answer ever: a sequel to Fools Rush In. Ever seen this movie? I am completely incapable of not watching it if I flip past it on TV. It’s cheesy, it’s silly, it stars CHANDLER, but I am totally it’s bitch. Sad, I know, but true. So there you go. Fools Keep Rushing In, starring Salma Hayek and Matthew Perry.
A tragic computer malfunction has erased your current blog so you decide to start over again under a fictitious identity. Who would you become and what would you write about?
Heh. I would be Left of Seine, spunky American owner of a bakery in Paris. I would write about cobblestones, chocolate chip cookies in the hands of Frenchmen, and meeting American tourists, the state of hockey in Paris, the dangers of hitting the pastis too hard whilst makes scones, the dangers of hitting the pastis too hard period, and fending off the attentions of the famous Alexander.
So that’s my Friday Fun. Now let's hear yours!
11 comments:
A million bucks to donate:
The easy one would be giving to a theatrcial society for young folks. However, after looking at the scheme of things, I would either donate the money to a deceased relatives of military, fire-fighter, or police casualties; or Ameica's poor. Either way, a definately American Interest.
Testified against the mob:
My first answer would be ending up in Stratfod doing something in theatre, but chances are, I'd be found, duh, and also a rotten idea for keeping alive. So in light of that, I would move to Rome, more specifically the Vatican working as a lay Higher up (however, I imagine, few actually exist). Well, there always is that 40 and out plan. ;) Those of you that know me, know what that means...
A Sequel to a movie:
This is a difficult one because I would like things to be done right (given my career and all), so "PCU, The Pit's Revenge" isn't a good option. I also imagine that movies with sequels are also out of the question like X-Men, the Potter Movies, and Indiana Jones. A prequel that needs to be made NOW is The Hobbit, but that is also out of the rules. So a sequel that could be made fairly well would be...get this... True Lies with the Governator, Jamie Lynn Curtis, and Tom Arnold (A MUST).
My Blog:
I do have one, and you know what, I am terrible, no torrible at updating it. I don't even take time to update my life, and, I'll tell ya, it can be nearly fiction on its own sometimes. However, after reflection, I would write about being a young person in DC trying to do and make well for himself and his nation, and being pure of heart and strong, and getting knocked around because Politics just isn't like that.
I am out... So Rolls the Moose.
The Charity thing: I'd just give it to the Church, but divy it between the local parishes (the one from home gets a check, but I'm buying the one up here a REAL FREAKING Crucifix), the diocese, and some love to the foreign mission. I'm not touching the worthy Q.
Flee the US Q: I'd try to get into some grad school in the British Isles and drink good beer until the heat died down. Maybe work on the digs or something...
Sequel Q: Um, they're already making a _Longest Yard_ remake, and the planned _Goonies_ sequel fell thru (even though they had all but the cute girl signed back on for it). I guess we could always make another _Cannonball Run_ movie. Bring back as much of the original cast as possible, and also bring in Coolio, Corey Feldman, the Doritos chick, Wayne Brady, Joe Pesci, the guy who played Verne on _Stand by Me_, a random Wayans, people like that...
Flip,
who doesn't blog...yet
North, i hope you won't be offended if my answers seem to take a while, these questions take some thought and time is a very precious commodity.
--- The Dancer in the Shadows
2004-09-16 ~ 08:23
-You've been given a million dollars to donate
-to a worthy charity! Which organization would
-benefit from your generosity and why are they
-deserving?
i think i’d try to establish a joint venture between the NRA and the ACLU with the two million. if these two organizations who are normally at odds with each other can agree that a particular law is a severe violation of the constitution (campaign finance reform comes to mind) then i'd like to see them work together to fix it. who knows, that might be the begining of a beautiful aliance.
-You've testified against the mob and have to
-leave the country! Where do you go to start
-your new life, and what new career will you
-pursue?
Germany. Excellent privacy laws, less likely for the new location to be found out. and i think i would become a political activist to try to reform germany's weapons laws, they are far too restrictive. i would like to remodel them after switzerland's weapons laws.
-A movie studio has given you carte blanche to
-develop a sequel to a film of your choice!
-What's your sequel going to be about and who's -starring in it?
i don't know. the movies that are good enough to consider usually don't have any loose ends to base a sequel on. if i come up with something i'll add it later. as to the actors, that would assume i could even identify who they are rather than characters they've played. no idea at all, i guess just hold open auditions and see who i like.
-A tragic computer malfunction has erased your
-current blog so you decide to start over
-again under a fictitious identity. Who would
-you become and what would you write about?
That would assume i'm blogging ... more than likely though i would restore from my own backup copies (i'm a network administrator, it's part of my job to be dataloss paranoid) and continue where i left off. (boring, i know, but truthful)
CompuGeek
Okay, I know I'm late. This week's been busy.
1 million for a worthy charity...
Hmmmm. I'd really have to do my homework for that one. A little here or there is one thing, but to put that much into one charity I'd want more info than I currently have about them.
I hate the mouse on this laptop. It hit the button without my permission.
anyway... Testified agaist the mob and have to leave the country...
Does that new life come with an education in whatever feild I've chosen? I want to travel - see Europe and a couple of other places, learn at least 3 more languages, stuff like that. I'd likely want to have somewhere in Germany that I'd call home.
I get to make a sequal to a movie...
We've go too many sequals as it is, I don't think I'd even want to make another one.Can't I just my own original? If I'm good enough they're going to give me that kind of go ahead, I think I could talk my way into doing something new...
tragic computer malfunction erasing my blog...
I'd call my own personal tech, CompuGeek, and try to recover things. If that's not possible, not really sure since the most blogging I've ever done is on your site. It's almost tempting to create a ficticious identity and see what happens...
Again, sorry I'm so late with this.
Fertility Goddess
Question:
You've been given a million dollars to donate to a worthy charity! Which organization would benefit from your generosity and why are they deserving?
Answer:
as of yet, i've never been fully satisfied with any charity, so i would likely found my own and donate the 2 million to it. after that, i would find people i trust to run it and set it off on its own doing good deeds.
Question:
You've testified against the mob and have to leave the country! Where do you go to start your new life, and what new career will you pursue?
Answer:
Leave the country?? not a chance!! since Big Brother would be footing the bill anyway, give me FBI / CIA / Army Ranger / Navy Seal / bounty hunter / assasin training and equipment -- i'll just go after the rest of them myself. i've already pissed them off, this would at least give me a fighting chance rather than wait for my new identity / location to leak and have them on my doorstep.
Question:
a movie studio has given you carte blanche to develop a sequel to a film of your choice! What's your sequel going to be about and who's starring in it?
Answer:
movie? i have time to watch a movie? ;) actually, i would make something regarding the troubles brewing in the Grey Havens. as to who would star in it, i would likely go through community theaters around the world for the majority of the cast. i enjoy movies, but let's face facts here, being an actor is fun, and not needed for society to continue. i can't justify paying them what they typically make just to have more fun. as a side note, if i were to start making movies, the proceeds would either go to organizations that truely need *and* deserve them (fire department, local police departments, etc.) or to the charity i founded in the first question.
Question:
A tragic computer malfunction has erased your current blog so you decide to start over again under a fictitious identity. Who would you become and what would you write about?
Answer:
i'm not certain i would. it seems that maintaining a blog takes a great deal of time. besides, that, if the blog gets ignored for a little bit of necessity (busy/time constraints etc.), those who only know the blogger from reading the blog may worry that something dreadful has happened to the blogger and that last little post really was the *LAST* post. (yes North, i was worried about you)
--- The Dancer in the Shadows
Alright, here come This Guy's answers . . . finally.
With regard to the charity of my choice, this might have been difficult if our gal North hadn't picked the Heifer folks right off the bat. As it turned out, though, she made it easy for me to pick Vital Ground. Founded a while back by Doug and Lynne Seus--keepers, trainers, and human family of the late, great Bart the Bear--Vital Ground purchases and preserves all of the prime Grizzly Bear (that's right, Babe, Grizzly Bear) habitat that it can, in the hope that the great bears won't fall further victim to human encroachment. In a manner of speaking, then, Vital Ground not only does its best for the bears, but for the American West, as well. That's a two-for-one deal if you're a guy like me. The results of the group's efforts are permanent, too, and the significance of that fact can't be overestimated.
Now, here's the tough one, and I do mean tough. I've been trying to narrow my selections down all day and it's been driving me out of my gourd. If I were to leave the country and take up a new occupation, the possibilities would be damned near endless! I could sail to the South Seas and become a plantation-owning island god. I could travel to Japan and work as a farm hand on the island of Hokkaido or as a gigolo in Tokyo. (Man, there's a song to be written right there.) I could travel to Tuva and learn how to do that nifty throat singing thing that they do there. I could go someplace nice, like Bolivia, and rob banks; but I have a feeling that the endeavor would, in all likelihood, end badly . . . again. I'd love to try living in Poland or in any of the Baltic Republics of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, but I have no idea what I'd do for work in any of those places. I'd probably just end up unemployed in Greenland, too, if I decided to go there. Getting myself back on track, though, I could journey to Israel, catch on with the Mossad, and kill terrorists for fun and profit. I think that tending bar in Nova Scotia or delivering the mail in Nepal ("VIVA NEPAL!!! VIVA NEPAL!!!") would be right up my alley, too. I could end up in the Shetland Islands, raising ponies and tutoring young Gaelic-speaking women in English. Hang on, that would be positively ideal . . . perhaps even more ideal than hiring myself out as a laborer on archaeological digs in Mongolia. Yep, there you have it. That's just what I'd do. It would be the Shetland Islands, tiny horses, and Gaelic-speaking babes for me. (Actually, that idea might just be too good not to look into for real!)
So, now it's movie time and I'm back into the easy going. If I were to produce a movie sequel, I think that we'd all be seeing a lot more of Eddie, Arsenio, and everybody else from the cast of "Coming To America" (Madge Sinclair excepted, unfortunately). I'd have to bring in some new and deserving talent, as well, though. Hopefully, Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle (accompanied by Eddie's brother, Charlie Murphy, of course) would join the party in some way, shape, or form. I'd love to have Ossie Davis play a role, as well. With all of that talent assembled, the film would simply have to be hilarious . . . and long. Seriously, at a movie that funny and that long, someone might actually die laughing.
As for the fourth and final question of the week, it has prompted the shortest and simplest answer of the evening. As you may have heard, I don't "'blog."
Thank you very much.
North, if any contest is attached to this, i have to say the prize goes unchallenged to This Guy.
--- The Dancer in the Shadows
as a follow up, i did start my own blog, and i've configured it so i have backups of all of my posts, so a server crash will only mean restoring backups. for anyone interested, it's here: http://thedancerintheshadows.blogspot.com
--- The Dancer in the Shadows
and my scatterbrained self forgot to say thank you to CompuGeek for the idea about backing it up. Thanks CompuGeek
--- The Dancer in the Shadows
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