. Let's quit the jibber jabber and get into the questions.
1. What is the worst or best insult someone's said to you?
I think the one that I disliked the most and had to endure for a full weekend was the visiting brother of a friend (who also happened to bring four or five of his high school buddies to visit his little brother at college, yeah that type of guy) who decided that I looked like the monkey pal on the Speed Racer cartoon. I got to spend a weekend being called Chim-chim. Until he passed out one night and I stuck some poop in his open mouth and took pictures of him.
2. What's the lamest platitude you know?
Oh golly, there are so many stupid little cliches that people trot out when they don't have their own words for situations. I hate "It was probably for the best" because you know it wasn't. "You only live once" is another pretty stupid one. "Takes one to know one" is also logically inane. "Birds of a feather flock together", um yeah, unlike birds of a fur or birds of a scale who don't like to hang out with each other at all. Actually, I think part of the definition of a platitude is that they suck so I pretty much don't like any of them.
[Update: Heather over on In No Particular Order reminded me of my all time least favorite platitude, "We can still be friends," usually delivered by your about to be ex. If they were your friend then they wouldn't be ripping your heart out and stomping on it with golf spikes, would they? Besides, its just a booty call ploy anyway.]
3. Do you pick up hitchhikers? When was the last time you did?
I will if I've got the time and the space. The last hitchhiker I picked up was a girl at a bus stop, she put up a bit of a struggle but I got her into the trunk of my car and......no wait. No she was actually hitching to get to the hospital because her sister had been admitted overnight and she had the car. It was about a month and a half ago.
4. What's your favorite fruit and how do you like to eat it?
I think my all time favorite fruit is the basic Fuji apple but lately blood oranges have been moving up the charts. Best way to consume almost any fruit is raw I think.
5. What's your favorite drive or drives?
Skyline Drive or Highway 35 the runs the ridge between Santa Cruz and Palo Alto, it runs into La Honda where Alice's Restaurant is and , on a nice weekend, there'll be a couple of hundred bikers hanging out. Take Highway 9 out of Santa Cruz, which is great ride all on its own, up through Felton, Ben Lomond, Brookdale (yeah, where the haunted and muy cool Brookdale Lodge is) and through Boulder Creek. Hit Skyline, hang a left and enjoy a road that allows you to look left to the ocean (on a clear day) and look right down into Palo Alto and the Silicon Valley. It doesn't hurt that the road is well maintained and is the asphalt equivalent of crack for a motorcycle.
6. Which begs the question, what's your favorite hike or walk?
Probably West Cliff Drive in Santa Cruz. You can walk up from the Boardwalk and enjoy ocean views, surfers at Steamers Lane, the occasional nekkid folk on It's (strangely its a sometimes nude beach within site of the road and one of two on West Cliff) and, if you go far enough, you end up at Natural Bridges State Park which is just beautiful.
And there ya go, that's my Cheddar for this week.
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