A clever little game for a bright and shiny Wednesday:

[featherynscale]

Or, a silly little meme I found over at zianuray's place.

Ask me seven questions. Not just any seven questions though. No, to keep it interesting, use the seven questions as per below - just copy and paste the following, replace the blanks with something you want to know/ask (e.g. 3. Donkeys or sandcastles and why?), anything you want, personal, silly, surreal or deep, comment away and I'll answer honestly.

1. What do you think of _____________ ?

2. When did you last ____________?

3. __________ or ___________ and why?

4. What did you ______________?

5. What's your favorite ______________?

6. How would you ______________?

7. Who would you most like to ________ ?

Comments

[celtic-elk.livejournal.com]

1. What do you think of the upcoming summer movie schedule?

2. When did you last read a book that stunned you?

3. "Whaddaya Know?" or "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me!" and why?

4. What did you stop to think about this morning?

5. What's your favorite pizza topping?

6. How would you rob a bank?

7. Who would you most like to drive cross-country with ?

[arkhamrefugee.livejournal.com]

1. What do you think of flagpole sitting?

2. When did you last have a screaming brain orgasm?

3. Cake or death and why?

4. What did you do, Ray?

5. What's your favorite costume idea, real or fictional?

6. How would you infiltrate a nunnery?

7. Who would you most like to discipline like a wayward schoolchild?

That's the filthiest set of questions I've ever seen...

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

1. What do you think of hard-boiled detective fiction?
2. When did you last blow a kiss to someone?
3. Scrabble or Upwords and why?
4. What did you last regret?
5. What's your favorite kind of seafood (species, not preparation)?
6. How would you improve the economy as God-Emperor?
7. Who would you most like to hit with a Clue Bat?

[gamera-spinning.livejournal.com]

1. What do you think of the power of narrative storytelling through sequential art? Can a story change a person?
2. When did you last grab life by the shirt, yank it close to you hard and whisper in it's ear it's true meaning?
3. Hot, kinky sex or reading an incredible book and why?
4. What did you do to the Dark Ages and Renaissance with your time machine, why is Hinduism the dominant belief system now and why is Lord Ganesha ruling Constantinople?
5. What's your favorite sensation?
6. How would you defeat ignorance and fear if you had the means?
7. Who would you most like to be if you could shapeshift perfectly for a day?

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

1. Kick ass! It's like something brilliant every week. My must-see list: Iron Man, Speed Racer, Prince Caspian, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, The Incredible Hulk, Wanted, Hancock, Hellboy 2, The Dark Knight, the new X-Files film, Bangkok Dangerous...well, that gets us through the summer, doesn't it? :) I'm such a 14-year-old.

2. Last month. The book was Elaine Pagels' Adam, Eve, and the Serpent. Not exactly the pinnacle of advanced scholarship anymore, but still, a pretty intense look at the way Christianity went from liberation theology to TOTAL FAIL in the Roman Empire. The stunning part is the potential to compare early Christianity to modern neopaganism. So I've been playing with that scenario for a bit.

3. "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me!", but I couldn't tell you why. I seem to be able to remember when it's on more often than the other one, which must be indicative of something, but I couldn't say what.

4. Whether I had time to do the LBRP or not, and whether it was acceptable to do it in a bathrobe, wielding a screwdriver. I decided that the answer to both of those questions was "yes". Also, I had a brilliant idea for an upcoming Gaia ritual, which I may need your help on... I'll keep you posted. *grin*

5. Lately, sausage, cream cheese, and mushrooms with pesto.

6. Depends on the bank. I for damned sure wouldn't tunnel up under the bank like they did in Bank Job, though. I'd probably be more like the "shave a fraction of a penny off every transaction" type, like in Office Space, or Hackers. (I think they did that in Hackers. I honestly remember the music better than the plot.)

7. Someone with the tendency to stop at interesting-looking places and wander around, possibly with cameras. Someone who wouldn't be in any particular hurry to get where we were going. Someone with an unending capacity to come up with clever ideas and a desire to do a lot of brainstorming. I'm not sure who this person is, though. Maybe it's more than one person.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

1. People do this?

2. Saturday, but I'm not giving details. :)

3. I'm gonna get the death anyway, I might as well have the cake. Particularly if it is Infamous Rum Caramel cake. Mmmmmm.... cake.

4. That's a big Twinkie.

5. I'm very keen on doing something from Girl Genius at the moment. I've been thinking of doing one of the Jagermonsters, if I can sort out the teeth. Or perhaps Agatha in her underwear with the Big Fucking Gun. That would be a lot of fun, too.

6. Dressed as a postulant, carrying a whole lot of cameras and whipped cream. Don't ask.

7. For sexual purposes, or just because they need beating? For sexual purposes, I suspect it would be a lot of fun to spank Alan Cumming. For the purposes of expressing an actual need for someone to be smacked around until they grasp how to behave, I'm thinking Matt Blunt, Missouri governor. Unfortunately, he's not running again, so it wouldn't generate extra scandal points, but hey. He just tops the list of people I want to hit so often...

Re: That's the filthiest set of questions I've ever seen...

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

1. I like detective fiction, actually. I will admit that I prefer it when it is conscious of its silliness, though, like unto Anonymous Rex and suchlike. :)

2. I'm pretty sure at the end of the last EiR class, the someone being ravenspirit_70. My usual kiss-blowing statement is something on the order of "OK, buh-bye now. Bye now." :)

3. Scrabble. The Upwords board is way too small. And I get sad that there are no multiplier spaces.

4. This is a crap answer, but it is the honest answer. I apologize for it in advance. My most recent regret was for trying to hold you and kittenpants together in previous iterations of the relationship floundering. If I had known it was going to go like this, I probably wouldn't have bothered you guys so much about it earlier. I don't know, though. Maybe I would have. Maybe it would have seemed worth it to get a few more months or years in. They were mostly good months and years.

5. Overall, lobster. Oysters are a close second, but I like lobster pretty much any way it is commonly prepared, but I don't get much out of raw oysters.

6. I actually probably wouldn't improve the economy if I were God-Emperor. The general goal of continued economic growth, with bigger and bigger growth every quarter seems very unhealthy to me. I might allow the current slide to continue, and try to use it to re-shape the way people think about money instead.

7. Most of the Missouri legislature. Also all three major party presidential contenders. Any editor who assigns reporters to cover the doings of Britney Spears or any contestant on American Idol. And then, after that, we could start getting into people we actually *know*.

[celtic-elk.livejournal.com]

1. You know what, Stuart? I like you. =)

2. I can't remember if I've read that particular Pagels or not - it seems likely, though. What about the scenario seemed applicable to modern neopaganism?

4. Research help? Wrangling alligators help?

6. And Superman III, actually. Gods, what a horrid movie. I liked the Sneakers approach, myself: break in and assign yourself an account with several hundred thousand dollars that you can calmly withdraw the next morning.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

1. Hell, stories might be the only things that change people. Facts and statistics don't seem to. Comics ought to be particularly brilliant in that regard, adding the visual/visceral input to the writing. And really, who among us hasn't been inspired by some comic or another to change the way we live? Of course, that might be what makes us geeks. :)

2. Outside of the bedroom, it has been way too long since I've done that. At least measurable in months, maybe years. I have some plans in the works, though...

3. Hot, kinky sex. Incredible book-reading is fine, but can be done any time. The library is open seven days a week, but you have to take the opportunity for brilliant sex as it comes. And it's not like that's not also mind-altering and life-shifting.

4. Shit man, all I did was point out that the clouds looked a lot more like a lotus than a cross. That guy was half-cracked anyway. But look at the maths, and the advancements in erotic art!

5. Carbonation on my tongue. I love that! (I'm so easy.)

6. With story. See question #1. :) I'm in for the sort of story that's about trusting each other and listening to each other and sharing story with each other. We understand each other's humanity through story, I think, and the more we can see every other person on the planet as human like us, the better off we'll be in the victory over fear and ignorance department.

7. Jesus. And you better believe that I'm milking this Second Coming thing for all it's worth. I have some Good News for people, you know?

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

2. The angle that got me hooked was her description of the transition of Christianity from persecuted minority faith to darling-of-the-emperor, profess-this-faith-for-court-appointment status, and how the idea of Original Sin might have come out of the observation that, guess what, the world didn't suddenly get better as soon as the Christians were in power, people were still people. I'm interested in the fact that neopaganism is allegedly one of the fastest-growing faiths in the world right now, particularly in the US. There's a certain amount of, if not power, at least glamour or trendiness, in professing that faith right now. And the tenets of the faiths are already changing in response. My particular study is Wicca, since that's the faith I have the most background in - the current practice of Wicca is already almost 180 degrees around from the Brit Trad practice on a lot of points. I have to think that some of that change is due to the spread of the religion, and its transition from initiatory, secretive, and kind of bonkers to open, proletarian, and kind of cool. So I'm interested to see what else the pagans will be willing to give up in return for popularity. The Christians gave up the idea that they were morally powerful and basically good people - that was a sort of core idea, you know? What will we give up to avoid cognitive dissonance?

4. I'm thinking mostly of musical library help.

[celtic-elk.livejournal.com]

2. Hmm. On the other hand, Christianity is an inherently eschatalogical faith, and Wicca and most other forms of modern paganism aren't. I need to chew on that for a while, I think.

4. Happy to help out, as always!

[leiandra.livejournal.com]

1. What do you think of Hilary's chances of actually getting the Dem nomination?
2. When did you last smile at a stranger on the street?
3. Istanbul or Constantinople and why?
4. What did you do last to honor yourself?
5. What's your favorite bottle of scotch?
6. How would you spend 2 unplanned hours? (Added bonus: Your answer must be different from triadruid's.)
7. Who would you most like to have with you to spend a weekend exploring & enjoying carnal delights? (Added bonus: Answer must be nobody with whom you currently have the opportunity to do so. Can be multiple people.)

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Right. We are perhaps going to be insulated against some of the uglier effects of the transition to prominence by the fact that our religion doesn't rest on the idea that once you have our faiths, you're perfect, or that once everybody in the world has a faith like ours, the world will be perfect. That should help. But there's bound to be some effect - I'm just interested to see how it works out. Of course, we're also dealing with a larger society, and we're a lot further from the top ranks of it - I mean, it's gonna be *a while* before we ever see a pagan president of any stripe, you know? Maybe over a longer timeline it will be a different story.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

1. I still think it could go either way. I'm sort of tuned out right now though - our primary is long passed, and it's a long way to November. I'll probably get all excited about it again sometime in August.

2. Yesterday, I think. There was an elderly fellow cheerfully chugging along the sidewalk near the office, whistling. I'm the sort of person who finds whistling to be endearing, I guess.

3. Istanbul, but it's nobody's business but the Turks'.

4. I'm not sure. I need to think more about that question.

5. I used to be very fond of Lagavulin 16-year. Then, I stopped eating things with sugar in them, and the Lagavulin began to be unbearably sweet-tasting. And I was sad. I'm still looking for a new favorite. (Although I eat sugar in small amounts now, and have artificial sweetener in quantity, so maybe the Lagavulin is good again... it's too expensive to conduct regular experiments, and it was so heartbreaking when it didn't pan out last time, so I haven't checked.) Also, I'm sort of chasing an original high on scotch. One of the first scotches I ever tasted was something that iron_clad brought over because he had stopped drinking. It was amazing, just an orgasm in a bottle. I have no idea what it was. I hope that if I ever discover it again, I will recognize it.

6. I don't know what he answered... so I'll throw this out there, and if it happens to be the same thing, I'll give a different answer. At the moment, the thing I would most like to do with 2 unplanned hours is one of these three things: a) have sex, b) spend some time finishing one of the books I'm in the middle of, or c) make shiny things.

7. Hrm... that's a long list, with lots of complexities. Spinning the Wheel of Totally Inappropriate Crushes, I'm thinking.... longstanding Inappropriate Crush adammaker, and/or most recent addition to the list of People I Think Are Totally Hot, royal_spice. Apparently, I'm all about the smart people. Who knew?

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

LOL. 7 is brilliantly worded. You win the findlaw.com version of the Internets for today.

[leiandra.livejournal.com]

Thanks...I think. :P

[matchgirl42.livejournal.com]

1. What do you think of the current political clime ?

2. When did you last paint your toenails?

3. Chicken or Turkey and why?

4. What did you make out of those beads I gave you (if anything yet)?

5. What's your favorite blog to read on LJ?

6. How would you make the world a better place?

7. Who would you most like to see in concert?

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

1. It is entirely too focused on image and entertainment, at the expense of thoughtful consideration of problems to be addressed. That's my sound-bite answer. :) We also lack a serious left wing - the Dems are more-or-less centrist, and the Reps are moving righter every day, so we're a little out of balance. The heavy involvement of dominionist players and ideas in the political system isn't doing us any favors either, and nobody seems to notice or care. In short, it's pretty fucking grim, in my humble opinion.

2. Um... I don't know. It's been a really long time, but not so long that all the paint is totally gone, I still have half of the paint on my left big toe left. Might have been last August.

3. Chicken. Turkey tastes like water to me. Not that chicken tastes much better, I suppose.

4. Nothing yet. I'm still plotting it.

5. I don't think I have one favorite. And, I read different LJs for different reasons. Most people I read purely to keep in touch with, so it really doesn't matter what they write, I'm going to keep reading them. Some folks I read for other reasons. gamera_spinning has the best entertainment news. jackbabalon23 is probably most inspiring (in all sorts of ways). ursulav is probably the funniest. catvincent (who is on IJ now) is the most likely to make me go "WTF?!?!". And so on...

6. By demonstrating that you have choices. By generally being decent to people. By trying to bring people into their own power. By refusing to let people say dumb hateful shit around me. By ignoring the rules that perpetuate dumb hateful shit. By facilitating space for people to sort their own stuff out. By educating wherever I can. By sharing. By working. By thinking. By deciding every fucking day to do whatever I can to improve the place by my passing. I hope I'm doing a good job.

7. I don't usually get all that excited about concerts, but I would certainly like to see Tool again. They put on a hell of a show.

[lilia-blackbear.livejournal.com]

1. What do you think of quiche?
2. When did you last camp?
3. Parsley or cilantro and why?
4. What did you like about the 90s?
5. What's your favorite type of bead to work with (ie, wood, clay, glass, etc...)?
6. How would you decorate a birthday cake for any person of your choosing, provided you were immensely skilled at constructing cakes (which, for all I know, may indeed be a super-power of yours)?
7. Who would you most like to resurrect?

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

1. When eggs agree with me, I like quiche. When eggs do not agree with me, I still like quiche, but avoid it like the plague it will inevitably bring down upon me. Whether eggs can be part of my diet seems to hinge on whether I am eating refined sugars and starches or not - whenever I get into low-carb or right-carb eating, eggs are fine. So at the moment, quiche is made of goodness and light. :)

2. I think the last time I camped was at Heartland, three or four years ago. I've been "camping" in cabins since then, but that hardly counts. I'm not a huge fan of camping, and will generally only choose to do it if it's part of some other event.

3. Cilantro! It's tasty and good. If parsley has a flavor, I'm not capable of detecting it.

4. Practical hair. :) Also, the beginnings of the new wave of earth-friendliness. Also also, electronica, the ska revival, the swing revival, and the last gasps of industrial music.

5. Horn, actually. There's something about the texture of horn and the translucent quality of it that I like very much.

6. I do not have that super-power, though I sometimes think it would be neat if I did. I once saw a cake made to look like a careening stack of wildly-colored tea cups and saucers, as in the Mad Tea Party of Alice in Wonderland. I've been sort of smitten with that cake idea ever since, though I have no idea for whom I would ever make it, or what occasion.

7. I'm gonna totally blow all my opportunities to wish for something really important here and say Robert Jordan. I'd really like for the poor fellow to be able to finish out his giant-ass book project.

Seconded

[popefelix.livejournal.com]

royal_spice is totally hot. :)

[popefelix.livejournal.com]

1. What do you think of later Nick Cave ?

2. When did you last go dancing?

3. Delerium or Synaesthesia and why?

4. What did you do for your sixteenth birthday?

5. What's your favorite sex toy?

6. How would you build your dream home?

7. Who would you most like to snog?

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

1. As you were posting this, I was looking at tour date announcements and wondering if I could go to Denver or Chicago. :) I haven't heard the new album yet, but I like pretty much most Nick Cave.

2. In October(?), celtic_elk came to visit, and we did a brief club tour of Kansas City, determined it all to be lame unto intolerable, and had a dance party in my living room. I'm not much for dancing as a rule, though.

3. Synaesthesia. Because I like the smell of green.

4. I don't have the foggiest idea what I did for my sixteenth birthday. I wasn't a very interesting person until much later in life, unfortunately. I probably had a cake. I usually insist on cake. :)

5. I used to have a rabbit-style vibe that was blue and had a dolphin as the clitoral vibe on it, and industrial ball bearings in the shaft. This was my favorite forever (partially because, hey, ball bearings), until I discovered that it was made of carcinogenic materials. I pitched it, but have yet to discover a toy that I like any better. I've been sort of disappointed in the last few I've bought. So I'm still looking for my favorite sex toy.

6. I'd really like to live in an underground dome home (gnome home!) , maybe set into the side of a hill. It would have plenty of library and workshop space, and a large kitchen (which is a lot like workshop space). I recently discovered that a key component of my dream home would be recycled aluminum tiles, most likely in the kitchen. Also very important would be a large bathtub. I cannot overstate the importance of the large bathtub.

7. Having just read the comment thread to my poll post, I'm inclined to say that I would most like to snog Captain Jack Harkness, if fictional characters are included in your question.

[royal-spice.livejournal.com]

OOOhh, the Wheel of Totally Inappropriate Crushes...that's a fun game. ^_^

I totally dig you too... And the other person in your little list there, as a fun coincidence. Small world. :D

[royal-spice.livejournal.com]

1. What do you think of when I say the words 'hamster' and 'elderberries' in the same sentence?

2. When did you last feel exhilarated?

3. Beer or wine and why?

4. What did you think the first time you saw triadruid?

5. What's your favorite way to spend a Saturday night?

6. How would you describe your five-year-plan?

7. Who would you most like to meet, given the choice of any living human being?

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

1. Because I am a large dork, and because my creative faculty doesn't work faster than my memory access to useless facts, the Monty Python line.

2. The other day when I was thinking about putting together the Under the Rainbow festival. Not that that's all that good an idea to get excited about, but my stream of ideas has been turned down to a trickle the last three or four months, so any large-size idea is Very Exciting to me right now. :)

3. Wine, because the glycemic load for beer is too high. I do love a good stout, though, in small quantities.

4. "Damn, I have got to figure out a way to get into bed with that boy."

5. With fun people, costuming, good food, booze, a reasonable expectation of going to bed with triadruid at the end of the party, and nothing really important to do on Sunday until late afternoon.

6. In flux. I'm sort of between five-year plans at the moment, with the recent upheaval in the household. So I can probably lay that out better in a few weeks. It certainly involves getting a new job some time in the next year or so (either moving up the ladder with the current employer or decamping for some other company). It used to involve going back to school. I'm still sorting out whether that will be possible in the new realm of things. And so on.

7. I probably wouldn't, actually. I'm not very good about meeting people, it makes me very nervous, and I never know what to say or do.