Archives for March 22, 2016

From 2006:

I found this questionnaire in my e-mailbox earlier today and thought it might be fun to answer it in public:

• What time did you get up this morning? Eight a.m.

• Diamonds or pearls? No preference.

• What was the last film you saw at the cinema? Believe it or not, Capote.

• What is your favorite TV show? I really don’t have one, though I’ve been enjoying the reruns of The Equalizer currently playing on Sleuth TV.

• What did you have for breakfast? Grape-Nuts and skim milk, with a few raisins thrown in.

• What is your middle name? Alan.

• What is your favorite cuisine?, Er, yikes, that’s a tough one! Maybe sushi?

• What food do you dislike? Blue cheese.

• What is your favorite potato chip? Salt and vinegar, mmmmm.

• What is your favorite CD at the moment? Rosanne Cash’s Black Cadillac….

Read the whole thing here.

“The more one suffers, the more, I believe, has one a sense for the comic. It is only by the deepest suffering that one acquires true authority in the use of the comic, an authority which by one word transforms as by magic the reasonable creature one calls man into a caricature.”

Søren Kierkegaard, Stages on Life’s Way