Venal Scene

Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Beaker says, "Meme meme meme meme"

I have been tagged by a meme, which is a nice way to get a running start at more regular blogging in the new year.

Five things that you probably don�t/couldn�t know about me.

My family has a lot of military service in its background. My grandfather served in the Navy during WWII and the Korean War, my father and his brother were army translators, my mother�s brother and his wife were in the Air Force, I have a cousin who was in the Navy until recently, and another cousin who is currently in Iraq. For this reason I have mostly kept my mixed feelings about this current military adventure to myself.

I have forsworn lamb chops. While I�m not convinced by the ethical arguments against meat-eating (For instance, a tiger wouldn�t think twice about eating me. I�ll show that sonuvabitch tiger! GIMMIE A STEAK!) But eating animals that were killed before they even had a chance to live to adulthood seems unnecessarily cruel. No doubt this was brought on by the birth of my second child. Anyway, I have forsworn lamb chops. Sweet, delicious lamb chops�
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Maybe I�ll quit them in �08.

When I was twelve I saw The Name of the Rose on cable and it filled me with an overwhelming desire to become a monk and live a cloistered life devoted to study. I wanted a life without all those messy bodily functions, like the one that popped up every day during Algebra 2. You know, a life without violent carnal desire�like all those monks in The Name of the Rose�okay so I didn�t think it out too clearly. But I did get my grandmother to sew me a monk�s robe that I still have, one that has served as many a last-second Halloween costume.

I have violent nightmares regularly. That�s why I�m not one for slasher flicks. No need to throw any coal on that fire.

I must write thirty-seven and-a-half plays before I die. You figure out why.

Tags go out to Josh (because it�ll be entertaining, whether he tells the truth or not), Mac (to help him get a running start too), and Sheila (just to see if she�ll respond).

This is great! Perhaps I should just solicit topics from others from now on. And then take entirely unreasonable positions on them.

In anticipation of the first suggested topic: sir, goat milk is the devil�s semen.
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