18 posts tagged “qotd”

How are you a better person today than you were ten years ago?
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I have fewer illusions.

Or perhaps I have replaced my old, tired illusions with fresh new ones, and that's always good.

What would you like to do more of?

Again, anyone who doesn't know my answer to this one hasn't been reading my blog.

Last night a little dancer came dancing to my door
Last night a little angel came pumping cross my floor
She said "Come on baby I got a license for love
And if it expires, pray help from above"
In the midnight hour she cried, "More, more, more"
With a rebel yell she cried, "More, more, more"

What makes a good President of the United States?

My vote for the best president of the US, ever?  William Henry Harrison.  Did he raise taxes?  No.  Did he order people to spy on his political opponents?  No.  Did he agitate for huge increases in spending on people who vote for him?  Did he perjure himself?  Did he make me embarrassed to be a citizen of what is, in fact, the greatest country on Earth?  No, no, no.

What did he do?  He dropped dead.  He caught cold during the inauguration and went tits-up in a month.  Good goddamn riddance.  No president has had the grace to die in office since Kennedy -- and even he didn't do it voluntarily like Harrison.  FDR only gave up the ghost after wheeling his rotting carcase to Yalta to sell Eastern Europe into Uncle Joe's ever-expanding slave camp.  Pathetic, really.

I guess the moral of the story here is to vote for McCain.  He's what, a 100 years old?  With a little luck, he'll croak the moment he staggers into Oval Office, from sheer self-satisfaction if nothing else.

I can hear what you're saying now: sure, Obama is young and healthy, but there has to be at least one syphilis-ridden gap-toothed cracker with a Mannlicher-Carcano and an inferiority complex out there.  Nah, good old boys can't shoot for shit any more.   Take my advice: Vote Old.

Who is ringing in the New Year with you?  Who do you wish could be with you, but isn't there?

Strangely, the answer to both questions is the same: no one.

I'm by myself tonight, and I'm very happy about that.  The night is peaceful and I'm glad of the chance to think things through a little bit.

The past years has been wild.  The whole Reluctant Adulterer project has taken me to some pretty strange places, some of them pretty fucking evil, but is finally starting to move.  The new year looks promising.  Even if it doesn't work out, even if it all turns to crap, Non, je ne regrette rien, I regret nothing.  I've met some interesting people, I've met some really bent people, I've learned some things about myself, I've had some fun.  A life, online.

And what I laughingly call my Real Life -- well, I'll have to omit the details, but it's going fine too.  Money situation is looking up, family's healthy and happy, dog is finally house-broken.

I have the distinct pleasure of being able to say to all of you, my readers, my friends, my lovers, I hope that your lives have been and continue to be as joyous, as surprisingly, as rewarding, as lively as mine.

What was the one thing that you wanted badly that made you do something ridiculous? 
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Anyone who doesn't know my answer to this one hasn't been reading my blog.

Film & TV writers are on strike, which means everything except reality TV could halt production.  Do you support the strike?  Are any of your favorite shows in jeopardy?

Ironically, my favorite shows is Jeopardy!  I don't know about TV scripts but the minimum legal price for the script to a feature-length film is $100,000.  This is just a power struggle between two groups of rich and greedy people.  While I personally approve of rich and greedy people, I don't see any reason to pick one group over another.

How are you celebrating Halloween today?

I'm going to the grocery store and buying a huge bag of apples and a few packs of double-edged razor blades.  And I'm going to ask the check-out girl out on a date.

What do you think of Stephen Colbert's satirical bid for the U.S. Presidency?  

How is it any more satirical than a bid by the Lady-Macbeth wife of an impeached former president?  By a well-known television actor?  By an ambulance-chasing personal-injury lawyer?  By an authoritarian ex-mayor with a long history of public cross-dressing?

"No matter how cynical you get, it's impossible to keep up."
-- Lily Tomlin

What fictional creature do you wish were real?

The nymphomaniac.

O.J. Simpson is back in the news again.  What are your thoughts on the release of "If I Did It" and his recent arrest?

Look at his mugshot.  Tell me, doesn't this look like a happy man?  A man who finally got what he always said he wanted: