Perhaps not as compelling as last week's questions but this week's
gets back to more inquisitive questions that allow respondents to explore their histories and share more than just a few songs by their favorite band.
And here are my response this week.
1. What was your last near death experience?
1a. Or what is your most memorable near death experience?
The last near death experience probably wasn't as close to death as it seemed like at the time but it'll work for these purposes. I was out trying a new configuration on my full suspension Ibis Szazbo (with alot of old school componentry that weighed the front end down and was a major cause of the incident) on my favorite local trail up at Delaveaga Park. There's a part of the trail where a rock waterfall sort of arrangement drops the trail down between a foot and three feet. Normally I'll dismount and walk the bike down as there's a pretty good dropoff to the right that I'd just as soon not test.
But on that day I was riding with a buddy who cleaned it and I decided to follow his track through a slice in the rock. Only problem was that there was a root at the bottom that caught my front wheel, turned it sideways and launched me over the bars and down the hill with the bike bouncing along on top of me.
When I came to a rest I was bleeding in six or seven places with one puncture wound in my arm and bruised in more places than I could count. I was also some thirty feet down the loose hillside.
Needless to say, I took the rest of the ride down very gingerly and slowly.
But then again, I have near death experiences almost everytime I get on my motorcycle because of some idiot not paying attention while wheeling around in a 2500 pound death machine. But I don't even count those anymore because they're so typical.
2. How often do you pull or edit posts after publishing them?
All the time, I hate misspellings, I hate when my mind sees a word but my fingers forget to type it. I cringe when I reread through my old posts and see mistakes in them (but not quite enough to go and fix them, yet). And I will edit posts quite often as well, for clarity, if more information becomes available or for whatever reason, in fact, this is an edit right now. And I have posted and pulled because the post was too inflammatory (like the one about how to be a better terrorist, that was in very, very poor taste) or stupid or juvenile or just plain mean.
3. How do you decide what to blog about?
It will depend, I take my cues from the news (such as the post below about Halliburton) and from personal events. Maybe I need to be a bit more selective in what I write about but you know what? I don't want to and since its my sandbox, I will play with it as I choose. I don't talk about intensely personal subjects very much because most of the people involved are readers here and I don't like hurting my friends and family. I have other blogs that aren't shared here for the venting of my internal furies.
4. What is your favorite work of art?
I've always loved architecture, specifically Frank Lloyd Wright architecture and Falling Water is one of my favorite buildings by him. For people sized art, I like most everything by MC Escher, lots of Salvadore Dali and other surreality type stuff. But I also really like Ansel Adams and other landscape photography. But my favorite work of art has gotta be my handmade Indian flute, its esthetically beautiful but also has the added bonus of producing a deep and sonorous tone that evokes the spirit of the desert to me. I take it with me everywhere I move to and its been all over the US and Africa.
5. What was your last brush with the law about?
This one is easy, earlier this week I was in court in support of a pal who's facing 25 to life for a third strike conviction. Usually its me talking my way out of a speeding ticket though.
6. What's the most clever post title you've come up with?
Without going back through the last year and a half plus of posts there is one that stands out as a favorite, There's No KY in Justice about a judge who played with himself while the female lawyer pleaded her case. Another favorite is The Sad Saga of the Cat Who Pooped Too Much that has also just been submitted to Jim's Bestofme Symphony.
7. What's the best marketing gimmick you've seen lately? Worst?
My favorite ads on tv right now have got to be the Budwiser commercials where they salute people for a variety of things. The toupee wearer one is downright hilarious, as is the Mr. Too Much Cologne Wearer. Unfortunately, I don't drink Bud because I prefer stronger brews like Sam Smith's Oatmeal Stout, Sam Adams or Heineken, so the marketing campaign ultimately fails but damn, they are funny ass commercials nonetheless.
The worst? Right now its gotta be a tie between the people-judge-you-by-the-watch-you-wear dumbass marketing campaign and the seasonal buy-your-loved-one-a-Lexus-(or other over priced rolling conspicuous consumption marker)-for-the-holidays. I'm sure there are more of them and that stupid Macy's commercial is right up there too. Oh yeah, the Coinstar commercial with the tooth fairy is stupid as hell too because it completely inverts the concept of leaving change for lost teeth under pillows. I thought I'd written about it before but apparently not.
Dang, that got a bit long winded, eh? Anyway, I had fun answering the questions (even if I did ask them myself). Want to play? Then head over to the
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