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| Janetblueyes | Posted – 1/17/2008 2:13:15 AM | show profile 1. Approximately how many miles do you live from your place of birth? 2. Who is the epitome of cool in your opinion? 3. What do you find absolutely useless? 4. How many photographs of yourself do you have displayed around your home? 5. When was the last time you felt elation? 6. Have you ever donated blood? 7. Are there any authors you would love to spend a day with? 8. Have you ever had/would you ever get a colonic? 9. Who or what was the subject matter of the best article/photo/design/creative project you have ever produced? 10. Where do your daydreams take you? ~Bonus Question~ What is the biggest drama in your life at present? |
| writesonwater | Posted – 1/17/2008 4:51:59 AM | show profile 1. Approximately how many miles do you live from your place of birth? Too many -- and not just 2,500 miles. I measure it in light years. 2. Who is the epitome of cool in your opinion? I love to listen to anyone who has braved change and forged ahead into progress. That is the coolest thing in the world. 3. What do you find absolutely useless? Highly technical instructions for any gadgets. 4. How many photographs of yourself do you have displayed around your home? One -- wedding photo. (I love While You Were Sleeping, where Peter just has pretty much just pics of himself in his house and wallet.) 5. When was the last time you felt elation? When a metro cover piece came out that I had worked hard on. 6. Have you ever donated blood? Tried, but I was too anemic. 7. Are there any authors you would love to spend a day with? And they would enjoy this and not find me a pain in the neck? I have lists. I'm loving Hugh Laurie's The Gun Seller, and I'm a fan from House. Perhaps I'd start there. 8. Have you ever had/would you ever get a colonic? Someone would have to be very persuasive about the benefits. It just doesn't sound very spa-like to me. 9. Who or what was the subject matter of the best article/photo/design/creative project you have ever produced? Hard to pin down. Perhaps a film director, an infamous historical figure, a transplant patient, a major league club owner or a guy who had fled the country after being convicted of a terrible crime. I found all those stories, and I look back and think of so many I've been proud of, and wish they were all like that. That's the one job that might drag me back to full-time -- enterprise writing. I love it. 10. Where do your daydreams take you? multiply published author with happy grandchildren, perhaps nice clothes and house to boot. I'm not hard to please ;) ~Bonus Question~ What is the biggest drama in your life at present? How to balance everything I need (my dryer died last week, and there are clothes drying everywhere. Tonight, my son looked at a pair of crutches with his dad's underwear poised at the top and chuckled. "That's just disturbing," he said. |
| jr_designer | Posted – 1/17/2008 10:04:47 AM | show profile 1. Approximately how many miles do you live from your place of birth? About 250 and I miss it! 2. Who is the epitome of cool in your opinion? Hmmm... no idea. 3. What do you find absolutely useless? The warning labels that tell me something that i ordered hot (e.g. coffee, hot chocolate, pizza) is actually hot 4. How many photographs of yourself do you have displayed around your home? Probably enough to make me look unbelievably vain but I love pictures so I don't care. 5. When was the last time you felt elation? Last week when I found out I'm going to Vegas. 6. Have you ever donated blood? No, I wish I could though but I keep getting denied! Damn anemia. 7. Are there any authors you would love to spend a day with? Not really. 8. Have you ever had/would you ever get a colonic? No. You can count me OUT. 9. Who or what was the subject matter of the best article/photo/design/creative project you have ever produced? So far I would say the Orleans Jazz Festival. The poster I created is one of my favorites in my portfoilo. 10. Where do your daydreams take you? Ahead about 10 plus years to being owning my own business and having everything I've ever wanted (and I don't mean material things). ~Bonus Question~ What is the biggest drama in your life at present? Living with my boyfriend's mother... you can only imagine. |
| GrOoVaL!c!OuS | Posted – 1/17/2008 10:05:03 AM | show profile Groove is back! 1. Approximately how many miles do you live from your place of birth? About 50 miles. But I live eight hundred miles from where I grew up. 2. Who is the epitome of cool in your opinion? Prince. Natalie Portman. Diablo Cody. Alicia Keys. Jay-Z. 3. What do you find absolutely useless? Tabloid magazines. 4. How many photographs of yourself do you have displayed around your home? Four. Maybe five. Mostly with friends or family. 5. When was the last time you felt elation? Tuesday. I sent a heartfelt note to my boyfriend who lives far away and he immediately called me at work to tell me how much he loved me. I was really stoked afterwards. 6. Have you ever donated blood? No, sorry to say. I'm deathly afraid of any kind of needle. 7. Are there any authors you would love to spend a day with? David Sedaris. Toure. Jhumpa Lahiri. 8. Have you ever had/would you ever get a colonic? Haven't had one yet. But I would definitely get one if I ever thought it was really necessary. 9. Who or what was the subject matter of the best article/photo/design/creative project you have ever produced? I was the subject matter. It was a personal essay for a graduate program. I really outdid myself. Now if I could only find the disk I saved it on... 10. Where do your daydreams take you? To another freakin' job. ~Bonus Question~ What is the biggest drama in your life at present? No big drama right now I'm happy to report. |
| Unemployed-gal | Posted – 1/17/2008 10:07:19 AM | show profile 1. About 10,000, give or take. I was born in Tokyo, Japan, and I now live in Brooklyn, New York. Is that about 10,000? I don't know. 2. Me, myself and I. 3. Some applications on computers, the phone system at work. 4. Not many--about three or four. 5. When I got an internship that I really wanted. 6. No. 7. Jane Austen, if she was still alive. 8. What's a colonic? 9. Myself. Not kidding, that's the subject I know best, so why wouldn't I write about it? And be good at it? 10. A job in editorial; having a real, live boyfriend who isn't commitment phobic. BQ:I can honestly say that for the first time in my life, there is no drama! What a relief! |
| HisGirlFriday | Posted – 1/17/2008 10:56:36 AM | show profile I am SO avoiding my deadlines ... 1. Approximately how many miles do you live from your place of birth? About 800 2. Who is the epitome of cool in your opinion? Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall. 3. What do you find absolutely useless? Cable TV 4. How many photographs of yourself do you have displayed around your home? A handful - mostly with friends and family. 5. When was the last time you felt elation? Last week when we found out we are high up on the waiting list for our dream elementary school. 6. Have you ever donated blood? Yes - I also actually volunteered with the Red Cross as a teenager, helping people donate blood. 7. Are there any authors you would love to spend a day with? Stephen King - he was one of the authors who inspired me to be a writer as a teen. Margarat (sp?) Atwood. 8. Have you ever had/would you ever get a colonic? Hm. Not crazy about the butt stuff. 9. Who or what was the subject matter of the best article/photo/design/creative project you have ever produced? I wrote about this guy who died under mysterious circumstances - lot of drama - long story - but not even his distant relatives family knew anything about him. I tried to piece his life together - it really affected me. I remember visiting his grave (had to fudge a little with the cemetary owner on the journalist thing ...) 10. Where do your daydreams take you? Sadly to material places - what would happen if we won the lottery and didn't have to worry about paying the mortgage. ~Bonus Question~ What is the biggest drama in your life at present? Tough one! See my crazy cat lady post below about my new stray with the ringworm, or the school waiting list issue. Also; trying desperatly to find balance with taking on too much work. |
| wineaux | Posted – 1/17/2008 11:18:22 AM | show profile 1. Approximately how many miles do you live from your place of birth? about 80, but I grew up about 2,500 miles away. I think it is so bizarre I wound up back here. 2. Who is the epitome of cool in your opinion? David Bowie. Tom Waits. Angelina seems pretty cool too. 3. What do you find absolutely useless? My freakin' Italian toaster that the husband bought based on it's cool looks. The damn thing doesn't toast properly and toast and bagels get stuck all of the time. Hello!!!???? It can't even do the one function it is supposed to do, even marginally. People always comment that it is cool looking, which gives me the overwhelming desire to fling the thing out the window. 4. How many photographs of yourself do you have displayed around your home? None. 5. When was the last time you felt elation? Hugging my boys last night. They were very cuddly, which doesn't happen as often as it used to, so I savor it. 6. Have you ever donated blood? No, and I really should. I will make it a point to do so this year. 7. Are there any authors you would love to spend a day with? You're probably going to think I'm a freak, but I'd love to meet Sylvia Brown, the phsychic, and see how my dad and some other people I care about who have passed on are doing. And David McCullough, too. I love American history, and he is so thorough in his books. 8. Have you ever had/would you ever get a colonic? The doc would have to be pretty damn persuasive to sway me in that direction. 9. Who or what was the subject matter of the best article/photo/design/creative project you have ever produced? A few come to mind. One was about a wine master that made a cover, and one was about an incredible and couragous women who lost her young son, and in his memory did some fantastic work that changed a lot of people's lives. I am in business/marketing writing now, rather than articles. I'm proud of my work, but I can't by any means call it as creative as my past work. I probably could use some sort of creative outlet. 10. Where do your daydreams take you? My childhood, or creating culinary masterpieces. Back to wine country. ~Bonus Question~ What is the biggest drama in your life at present? No drama, really. Except we may have to relocate in a year, and I am not sure I am up for yet another move. |
| ConfidentDesigner | Posted – 1/17/2008 11:18:46 AM | show profile 1. 1500 miles 2. Bill Clinton 3. My old computer monitor 4. 0 5. Monday night 6. Yes 7. John Steinbeck 8. No! 9. Environmental 10. In the arms of a 6'3", gorgeous HGTV carpenter:) |
| wineaux | Posted – 1/17/2008 11:19:14 AM | show profile I agree, Friday. Paul Newman is pretty damn cool. I should have mentioned him, too. |
| keltoi2 | Posted – 1/17/2008 11:46:27 AM | show profile Good batch, jbe! 1. Approximately how many miles do you live from your place of birth? 64.88 according to Yahoo maps. 2. Who is the epitome of cool in your opinion? Living, I'd say Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward are up there, so's George Clooney. Past cool would include MLK, JFK, Grace Kelly, Gary Cooper, Katherine Hepburn. 3. What do you find absolutely useless? As someone above said, warning labels for the terminally stupid, gossip, television, some people. 4. How many photographs of yourself do you have displayed around your home? By my lonesome? I think one with me standing at the Grand Canyon. I'm in a number of others, but with my wife, family, or friends. We have a lot of photos up in our house. 5. When was the last time you felt elation? Joy, happiness, satisfaction, sure. Elation? Have to think on that one. 6. Have you ever donated blood? Probably a few dozen times; used to do it 5 times a year. I'm a member of the 3 Gallon Club, but I haven't given in a while. Gotta get back on it. 7. Are there any authors you would love to spend a day with? Living or dead? Charles Dickens, Calvin Trillin, Tom Wolfe, JRR Tolkien, Robert Jordan, Jean Shepherd, Ernest Hemingway, Art Buchwald, William Gibson, Dorothy Parker, others. 8. Have you ever had/would you ever get a colonic? Not even at gunpoint. 9. Who or what was the subject matter of the best article/photo/design/creative project you have ever produced? Best articles I ever edited was probably profiles of JFK by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and a fine Ernest Hemingway profile. Best articles I ever wrote were probably a profile of doctors who served in the D-Day invasion; practicing medicine in Alaska; hot air ballooning; and a history of pinball. 10. Where do your daydreams take you? Writing award-winning (and lucrative) screenplays in my wife and my warm and welcoming home in Western Ireland on a cliff overlooking the Atlantic. ~Bonus Question~ What is the biggest drama in your life at present? Trying to protect my grandchildren from the stunningly poor choices of their parents. |
| mad fingers | Posted – 1/17/2008 11:46:49 AM | show profile 1. Approximately how many miles do you live from your place of birth? 760 (thanks, MapQuest) 2. Who is the epitome of cool in your opinion? Cary Grant, Tom Waits (I concur) Hoagy Carmichael My mom and dad 3. What do you find absolutely useless? SUVs, celebrity "culture," most reality TV 4. How many photographs of yourself do you have displayed around your home? A few, mostly from when I was a kid. My dad is an excellent photographer 5. When was the last time you felt elation? Yesterday. May actually have landed a job after being out of work for over a year. 6. Have you ever donated blood? Yes 7. Are there any authors you would love to spend a day with? Living: David Sedaris (I was a Macy's elf at Christmas) Dead: Kurt Vonnegut 8. Have you ever had/would you ever get a colonic? Only if it was doctor ordered 9. Who or what was the subject matter of the best article/photo/design/creative project you have ever produced? Tough one: Wrote some essays on my family that I really like, but it's probably a toss up between a piece on Phil Lynott (Thin Lizzy) or a local homeless woman who has transformed her world through art. 10. Where do your daydreams take you? Someplace where there isn't any trouble. Toto, do you suppose there really is such a place? ~Bonus Question~ What is the biggest drama in your life at present? Juggling the bills. Trying to eke it out until first paycheck comes. Waiting on money owed from a freelance story. |
| mad fingers | Posted – 1/17/2008 11:47:51 AM | show profile 1. Approximately how many miles do you live from your place of birth? 760 (thanks, MapQuest) 2. Who is the epitome of cool in your opinion? Cary Grant, Tom Waits (I concur) Hoagy Carmichael My mom and dad 3. What do you find absolutely useless? SUVs, celebrity "culture," most reality TV 4. How many photographs of yourself do you have displayed around your home? A few, mostly from when I was a kid. My dad is an excellent photographer 5. When was the last time you felt elation? Yesterday. May actually have landed a job after being out of work for over a year. 6. Have you ever donated blood? Yes 7. Are there any authors you would love to spend a day with? Living: David Sedaris (I was a Macy's elf at Christmas) Jeanette Walls Dead: Kurt Vonnegut 8. Have you ever had/would you ever get a colonic? Only if it was doctor ordered 9. Who or what was the subject matter of the best article/photo/design/creative project you have ever produced? Tough one: Wrote some essays on my family that I really like, but it's probably a toss up between a piece on Phil Lynott (Thin Lizzy) or a local homeless woman who has transformed her world through art. 10. Where do your daydreams take you? Someplace where there isn't any trouble. Toto, do you suppose there really is such a place? ~Bonus Question~ What is the biggest drama in your life at present? Juggling the bills. Trying to eke it out until first paycheck comes. Waiting on money owed from a freelance story. |
| mad fingers | Posted – 1/17/2008 11:49:24 AM | show profile Sorry, Got Dilbertized... |
| Mag Girl | Posted – 1/17/2008 12:06:55 PM | show profile 1. Approximately how many miles do you live from your place of birth? About 900 miles 2. Who is the epitome of cool in your opinion? early Elvis, Audrey Hepburn, George Clooney, Vince Vaughan 3. What do you find absolutely useless? People magazine. 4. How many photographs of yourself do you have displayed around your home? NOne of just myself- but a few wedding photos of me and the hubby 5. When was the last time you felt elation? Last night at the sight of snow. 6. Have you ever donated blood? ALl the time! I do epheresis. 7. Are there any authors you would love to spend a day with? Joyce Carol Oates, Steven King 8. Have you ever had/would you ever get a colonic? HELL NO 9. Who or what was the subject matter of the best article/photo/design/creative project you have ever produced? Dov Charney 10. Where do your daydreams take you? warm places and a world where I am rich and famous. And to where I get pregnant ~Bonus Question~ What is the biggest drama in your life at present? some work crap....wish I could talk about it |
| Mag Girl | Posted – 1/17/2008 12:08:46 PM | show profile ah, forgot James Dean for #2 |
| sue ellen mischke | Posted – 1/17/2008 12:23:28 PM | show profile 1. Approximately how many miles do you live from your place of birth? Wow. I never realized I live three miles from the hospital in which I was born. 2. Who is the epitome of cool in your opinion? Beck. 3. What do you find absolutely useless? Post-It dispensers. 4. How many photographs of yourself do you have displayed around your home? None. 5. When was the last time you felt elation? Today. 6. Have you ever donated blood? Nope. 7. Are there any authors you would love to spend a day with? Neil Gaiman. "Neil, you are the wizard of words, and I? (Question mark.) I, and merely a blank page upon which you cast your spell." 8. Have you ever had/would you ever get a colonic? No. But have a friend who does and he loves it. 9. Who or what was the subject matter of the best article/photo/design/creative project you have ever produced? Cannoli shell. 10. Where do your daydreams take you? Too ex-rated for this post. ~Bonus Question~ What is the biggest drama in your life at present? Good drama: I had a big life change. |
| Mirage | Posted – 1/17/2008 12:31:43 PM | show profile I haven't participated in this yet, but based on reading last week's answers and this week's questions, I have to jump in. 1. Approximately how many miles do you live from your place of birth? 35 physically; emotionally, much farther. 2. Who is the epitome of cool in your opinion? David Lynch is dorky-cool. Catherine Zeta Jones is sophisticated-cool. 3. What do you find absolutely useless? Republicans. 4. How many photographs of yourself do you have displayed around your home? None--just b&w photos of places I've been. Those other photos are for myspace. 5. When was the last time you felt elation? When I got accepted into some MFA programs last year. Unfortunately, the elation was short-lived, as I wound up going into a regular MA program that was not a good fit. 6. Have you ever donated blood? Yes, but I haven't since 9/11. 7. Are there any authors you would love to spend a day with? Many. Michael Cunningham, David Sedaris, Margaret Atwood, and Sarah Waters top the list, but I'd also love to hang out with Anais Nin, Henry Miller, and Oscar Wilde if they were still around. 8. Have you ever had/would you ever get a colonic? There is no way to put this better than keltoi: "Not even at gunpoint." 9. Who or what was the subject matter of the best article/photo/design/creative project you have ever produced? Identity and questions of masculine/feminine. 10. Where do your daydreams take you? To Morocco, lately. ~Bonus Question~ What is the biggest drama in your life at present? Not being able to close on the apartment I bought in AUGUST because the seller is a complete asshole. |
| Bleak Spouse | Posted – 1/17/2008 12:37:49 PM | show profile 1. Approximately how many miles do you live from your place of birth? Most of my life I've lived many miles away from it, usually over 3,000, but by chance I'm now within about 100 miles. 2. Who is the epitome of cool in your opinion? Ricky Gervais 3. What do you find absolutely useless? Vegetables 4. How many photographs of yourself do you have displayed around your home? zero 5. When was the last time you felt elation? Last time I was in Paris, so November 6. Have you ever donated blood? No 7. Are there any authors you would love to spend a day with? Dostoyevsky, Shakespeare, Thomas Merton, George Orwell, Rilke, Kafka, Joyce, Beckett, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Van Gogh (he authored some great letters). 8. Have you ever had/would you ever get a colonic? Don't even know what that is. 9. Who or what was the subject matter of the best article/photo/design/creative project you have ever produced? An angel in the Montmartre Cemetery. 10. Where do your daydreams take you? Into the past -- Paris, 1888. ~Bonus Question~ What is the biggest drama in your life at present? No drama. |
| Bleak Spouse | Posted – 1/17/2008 12:49:52 PM | show profile keltoi2: writing screenplays in your wife? |
| nandy | Posted – 1/17/2008 12:52:28 PM | show profile 1. Approximately how many miles do you live from your place of birth? 25 2. Who is the epitome of cool in your opinion? Tina Turner 3. What do you find absolutely useless? Letter openers. 4. How many photographs of yourself do you have displayed around your home? Three. But then, it's really my father's home and he has pictures of all his children. 5. When was the last time you felt elation? When I finished and submitted my employee evaluations last month. DONE for another year! 6. Have you ever donated blood? No, I tried twice and was rejected...low iron or something. 7. Are there any authors you would love to spend a day with? Can we bring back a few from the dead? Shakespeare. 8. Have you ever had/would you ever get a colonic? No, and no. 9. Who or what was the subject matter of the best article/photo/design/creative project you have ever produced? Michael Bolton 10. Where do your daydreams take you? To a place where I am independently wealthy and only have to work on the things I desire. ~Bonus Question~ What is the biggest drama in your life at present? Lots of family coming into town this weekend for a wedding. The logistics of who needs to be picked up where and when, and who needs rides to and from different events, and who is staying where is getting overwhelming. And it's only the daughter of a cousin who is getting married not an immediate family member. We're also trying to organize our fourth family reunion for next summer. The wedding will serve to get all my siblings together for a needed discussion on that. |
| pholiday | Posted – 1/17/2008 1:00:30 PM | show profile 1. Approximately how many miles do you live from your place of birth? Approximately 600. 2. Who is the epitome of cool in your opinion? Being super hot and smart and savvy, dressing without fuss in great clothes and, most importantly, being humble. 3. What do you find absolutely useless? Self-help books ... I feel like they just reinforce what I already know. 4. How many photographs of yourself do you have displayed around your home? Maybe 10. They are ALL with other people though. 5. When was the last time you felt elation? During a hot romp in the sack last night. 6. Have you ever donated blood? Yes. 7. Are there any authors you would love to spend a day with? Joan Didion ... something about the pain she has gone through. Or Erma Bombeck if she was still alive - we would have so much to gossip, be caddy and complain about together! 8. Have you ever had/would you ever get a colonic? Funny you should ask ... I intend to do a full irrigation next month. Haven't had it done before. I heard that meat rots in the intestines and colon for a long time ... sick! 9. Who or what was the subject matter of the best article/photo/design/creative project you have ever produced? My family (esp. my mother) 10. Where do your daydreams take you? To a great big house with kids and a galley kitchen. But they should take me to the beach:) ~Bonus Question~ What is the biggest drama in your life at present? Ummm ... if I end up breaking it off with the man that would surely be it ... but with hot sex going on, the break up is off. |
| Mirage | Posted – 1/17/2008 1:11:29 PM | show profile Bleak... I was there in November, too--during the Metro strike. Sort of killed the elation for me. |
| pholiday | Posted – 1/17/2008 1:12:04 PM | show profile oops ... misread #2 Reese Witherspoon seems very cool. |
| keltoi2 | Posted – 1/17/2008 1:19:23 PM | show profile bleak--ok, this editor should have edited his prose a bit more carefully. Should have been writing screenplays in the home of my wife and I. (My wife and me?) Also noticed I said articles "was" rather than were. Shot a few nifty photos in Pere Lachaise myself. |
| sue ellen mischke | Posted – 1/17/2008 1:25:20 PM | show profile "My wife and me"... "My wife and I" when you guys are the subject... |
