False, only ever been fishing once, when I was younger.
TNP expects to go camping this summer?
False, only ever been fishing once, when I was younger.
TNP expects to go camping this summer?
In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.
Unlikely, but possible.
TNP will go to the beach this summer.
Yes, the probably only on a lake, not the ocean.
TNP likes hash (the food, not the drug).
Love it. The real hash, meh, whatever. That's for hippies or extras from *Lawrence of Arabia*. Well, the latter's OK, I guess, just kind of too druggy.
The food -- great. That's the original Hungry Man -- put it all together, apply flame, and eat.
Preferably while your fishing buddy is cleaning out some nice trout for lunch.
TNP likes mashed potatoes better than French Fries.
Hmm. Close call. It depends on the situation - with a more formal meal, I prefer mashed potatoes. With hot dogs or hamburgers, for instance, I prefer french fries.
TNP never called them "Freedom Fries."
I never called them Freedom Fries, but I have called them "Freedom Fries." Which is good because Belgians are, as Baudelaire teaches us, the enemies of freedom. It's like sarcasm or something.
TNP comes to think of it, the RL Belgian friends -- people you voluntarily spend time with, not just "Hey, how you doin'" -- has had are kind of an odd bunch.
No, alas. I don't know a single Belgian person.
TNP has seen In Bruges and thinks it's cunt fucking hilarious.
Yep. It is a fucking hilarious movie. Old, though.
TNP has woken up this morning after a well-deserved "rest" last night spending it being good, just drinking my whiskey on my stoop, and hallucinated (?) some weird Norman-Mailer theory wherein I invited some strange dude into my place and spent the whole morning thinking....WTF is my door's locked, where's my wallet, where's my keys, and stuff, only to open my bedroom door and seeing there was nobody there.
Well, TNP has had *one* night like that, doesn't have to be this past night.
No. I've never hallucinated anything, as far as I know.
TNP doesn't consider a movie from 2008 to be "old."
No, nor from 2000.
TNP has had a headache in the last week.
Yes, on Friday afternoon I had a pretty bad one. It went away on its own, though.
TNP has a favorite movie of 2014 already.
Not really. And FWIW, that was a joke. I think the 1930s are where the best movies come from, as a group, so I was being sarcastic, and also hating on people who call some 1970s or 1980s movies "classics," because I think that's ridiculous. Just as ridiculous as people saying "classics" in literature, for example, can possible be from the past few millenia. Or however it's spelled.
TNP has had a fucking weird day today, because of like, just weird shit and stuff. Or whatever. And also explain why or why not.
No, it's been a pretty typical day. Got up, showered, dressed, went to work, and am now noodling around on the Internet in a free moment.
TNP already has lunch plans for a week from Friday.
No...actually, I don't think I have any idea what I'm doing for lunch this Friday, let alone in a week.
TNP doesn't drink iced tea.
No, I only drink Crystal Lite. Made by the important US concern Kraft Foods. "Sweet tea" is an abomination. "Y'all like some swee' tea, hon'?" No, blow me, female Bubba at the juke joint (which is pronounced jeep or jeek joint by those in the know).
TNP is impossibly stressed out and might either vomit from anxiety at any moment, or expel unspeakable horrors from the lower deck, or develop an ulcer.
Unlikely to all of the above... fortunately.
TNP has heard a Peter Frampton song in the past week (as I am now, on the radio).
No, actually I can't remember if I've heard a Peter Frampton song in the last 20 years.
TNP knew there was an election in Ontario today.
True, thanks to Northern Piper on, er, that other website.
NP knows someone who regularly smokes a pipe.
Yeah I don't know whatever I guess.
TNP did some pro bono helping-out work today that involved scaling and descending a ladder like 50 ft like a bunch of times and recalls it having been pretty good workout for arms and legs in addition to having been glad was not over the weight limit for the ladder. In the past year. For me, it was today helping my mother hang some shutters on her house that she painted and it was quite a workout, actually, so glad I'm done. I did get a lunch out of it, and to see my youngest nephew who, I assume, was appropriately impressed by "ooohh, ladder, tall." eh whatever. Glad I stuck to coffee this AM, though.
Nope. But I'm gonna guess you did.
TNP has been to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y.
You know, not really. Could have stopped off easy enough many times, just wasn't a priority at that time.
TNP has been to the Rock and Roll Museum over in .... Cleveland, I guess.
Yes, many times. Cool place. My personal favorites among the many exhibits: Jim Morrison's Cub Scout uniform; the original handwritten lyrics to several Beatles songs.
TNP has a single favorite Beatles song.
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Not really. I like the Beatles, but there's no one, big song for me.
TNP gets bored easily.
False. I can always pick up a book, go for a walk, muck around on the Internet, watch a movie or scratch the dog.
TNP has owned at least three dogs during his or her life.
No, all the dogs i've been associated with were more my family's dogs than mine.
TNP likes horseradish.
Yes, very much, on roast beef. It's a minor Christmas custom in our house.
TNP has a more unusual holiday custom.
Nope. Have a xmas if whoever wants to put it on and whatever, We've all seen the movies. Play some music, and watch the world go by.
TNP has positive memories of a music box (or a musical watch).
Yes. My sister had a delicate little ballerina music box that I liked when I was very small.
TNP has been in Rochester, N.Y. at some point (as I am now).
Pulled a barge with my teeth all along the canal from Rochester to Buffalo.
TNP is currently taking photographs (speaking of Eastman).
I took some this afternoon in a cemetery in Troy, N.Y., as a matter of fact.
TNP loves to take pictures.
Actually, kind of hate it. I don't know, just not my thing, I guess. Actually, really, really hate it -- everything about it, the technical to the act of taking a simple snapshot.
TNP has, however, seen some interesting photographic stills in the past, for example, large-format wilderness backcountry pictures. Those guys were pretty costaud.
Yes, indeed. Ansel Adams is a particular favorite of mine:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...nake_River.jpg
http://images.fineartamerica.com/ima...o-iacomino.jpg
http://www.iphf.org/wp-content/uploa...ehernandez.jpg
TNP has an Ansel Adams image somewhere in his or her house.
You know, I don't. When I was a bit younger I used to hang some stuff on my walls, but maybe when I hit 22 y.o. I thought, I guess -- well, it just wasn't something I cared about.
I did, up until moving out here, used to enjoy a poster of Great Day in Harlem -- that fancy famous picture.
I guess I have some NatGeo maps up in my office, but since moving about five years ago I only bothered putting up a nice NatGeo world map up, not some of the regional ones. seems like too much hassle, </Barry Levinson in *High Anxiety*>, I guess.
Anyway, I've always liked plain white walls and a big window. Down where life is beautiful all the time...to the funny farm! Eh, shaddup.
TNP has only had one good chance to mutter something today. For example, taking out some trash and finding some...people...had filled up the dumpster with a bunch of bullcrap, "Eh, what, these people, Arbeit macht frei, bitches," but took the high road and didn't even say anything bad.
False, I've had multiple opportunities to mutter about the unfairness of life, the universe, and everything today. It's been one of those days.
TNP wishes they had a copy of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, the actual guide, not the book by Douglas Adams.
In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.
Oh, definitely. Especially if its voice was that of Stephen Fry.
TNP loved the Fry & Laurie Jeeves & Wooster series back in the day.
Yeah, that was a cute show. It had that guy from *House* in it, I think, also. Never got into the novelizations, though.
TNP is looking forward to playing some fun kids games with toddler-type creatures over the weekend. In my case Alligator Eggs -- I'll make them color in the alligators before playing, but I will cut out the alligators and eggs first, because, adult and stuff.
False, mainly due to a lack of toddlers.
TNP is going to an outdoor event sometime this weekend?
In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.
Well go get some toddlers, then. They're like funny sort-of smart sort-of-stupid little alien hatchlings. No, just a weekend at the coast, probably mostly spent indoors babysitting my twenty-years-my-senior Uncle, and maybe wrest the kids away when they get bored with the other set of their grandparents to play my lambda calculus game with alligators. Which, BTW, I still don't know any good problems to set up for the actual game part of that. I'ma be too busy cutting out these stupid pictures and convincing (brainstorm! my uncle + some sharpies in the car with pops, let him color the pieces and cut them out. My pops who is, bless him, down at a Blues Festival (caps!) today, texted me back that uncle can only have blunt-end scissors. Well, whatever, I'm not going to tell).
TNP has been to a nice outdoor kind of thing this calendar year, like a festival or whatever.
Yes, an outdoor birthday party for a friend of mine. He just turned 50 (as I will soon).
TNP is an American and will be celebrating Independence Day.
Not American, but I celebrated by drinking a lot and watching the FIFA World Cup.
TNP has eaten transcendent pad thai. Not just tasty, I mean indescribably good.
Well, that would probably be overstating things, but I have had some pretty good pad thai in my day.
TNP has never had pad thai.
False, I've had it, but never had any that was that great.
TNP likes beer. A lot.
Not a lot, but I like very few things in life. Drinking beer is one of them. Good beer is nice, but I prefer ghetto beer 10-12% alcohol. The other stuff just doesn't get 'er done. But I can enjoy shooting the shit for hours with a nice microbrewery IPA hopped all up, served in a pint glass from the tap, as long as they keep them coming and don't let them get wet. And also don't 86 me, that part is important. Or wine in a box, that's good stuff too. Neither beverages -- ghetto beer or ghetto wine -- have bouquets. They have odors.
TNP will only drink foodie beer because TNP is a foodie.
No foodie, I. I like micro-brews and what have you, but I'm happy to drink whatever plonk they're selling at the ball park. Life is all about context.
TNP is feeling more than usually cranky today.
No!!!! Feeling good! Found out my usual very good dentist accepts my new insurance AND they had a cancellation so they can swab out my disgusting maw this Wedensday.
TNP woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning.
No!!!! Feeling good! Found out my usual very good dentist accepts my new insurance AND they had a cancellation so they can swab out my disgusting maw this Wedensday.
TNP woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning.
False. I woke up actually in the bed.
TNP has had a haircut recently.
No
TNP could use a haircut next time he or she gets around to it. But TNP resists the urge to start hacking away with scissors because, you know, it sucks that way and, uh, supportive of local tradeswomen.
YesProbably need a haircut sooner rather than later because my dentist called me back and said my insurance isn't good there. Shit fucking a god dammit now I have to find somebody else.
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You know what? Fuck that guy, if he doesn't want my insurance. Stupid f****t. After all the money I gave him out of pocket. Fucking retard asshole and his whore hygienists. He probably rapes them, too. Fucker.
TNP started out strong today with the feeling of in the heart and then, after spending all day on hold with automated phone lines, just keeps getting pretty worse.
OTOH, I have beer! Probably, at this point, more than is really healthy, but it keeps my pecker up.
That's basically how my day's gone so far, yeah.
TNP has certain joints that pop and crack.
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