What is your idea of perfect happiness? Contentment with the here and now, the absence of bullshit.
What is your greatest fear? To feel regret. Or, to be trapped in an elevator with Tom Cruise.
What historical figure do you most identify with? Johnny Cash (less the guitar and the drugs).
Which living person do you most admire? Nicole Kidman, she had the sense to leave Tom Cruise.
What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? Misanthropy. Blind spots.
What trait do you most deplore in others? Inauthenticity, intentional cruelty.
What is your greatest extravagance? Hair product, cufflinks, pens.
On what occasion do you lie? To get laid. I may or may not be lying now.
What do you most dislike about your appearance? Top surgery anyone? My phantom limb.
What is your favorite journey? The road trip down the blue highways of life, complete with giant balls of string, houses made of tin cans and muffler men.
What do you consider the most overrated virtue? Chastity.
Which living person do you most despise? “No one on this site.”
Which words or phrases do you most overuse? “Right.” "Your mom."
What is your greatest regret? Not planning more thoughtfully.
What or who is the greatest love of your life? He’s 11 and sleeps under my roof every night.
When and where were you happiest? Too many moments to pin one down, but I’m willing to bet it was on the back of a horse or the deck of a boat.
Which talent would you most like to have? To play the guitar.
What is your current state of mind? Synapses firing.
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? Taller, and more trusting of my own instincts.
If you could change one thing about your family, what would it be? Melt the icy interior.
If you were to die and come back as a person or thing, what would it be? A pothole.
If you could choose what or who to come back as, what would it be? Let it roll.
What do your consider your greatest achievement? Making it this far.
What is your most treasured possession? Toss up between my grandmother’s Louis Vuitton steamer trunk, or my custom Wade tree roping saddle.
What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? Inertia. The repetition of unhealthy patterns.
What is your most marked characteristic? My eyes. (online: asshatery).
What is the quality you most like in a man? Intelligence, authenticity, kindness.
What is the quality you most admire in a woman? Intelligence, authenticity, kindness.
What do you most value in your friends? Wit, reliability, intelligence.
Who are your favourite writers? Tom Robbins, Raymond Carver, Anne Lamott, David Sedaris.
Who is your favourite hero of fiction? Laszlo de Almasy, Bugs Bunny, Superman, Garp.
Who are your heroes in real life? Harvey Milk, my dad, anyone who chooses to press on when the chips are down.
What are your favourite names? Stella, Alexander, Salvatore, Isabel.
What is it that you most dislike? Betrayal, contrivance.
How would you like to die? Blaze of glory (post-shooting my load).
What is your motto? My pappy was a pistol, I’m a son of a gun.
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Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats. - H. L. Mencken
Last edited by Mister Bent; 05-23-2010 at 09:48 AM.
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