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Six More Random Questions for You
February 2, 2008
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[...] Most of my readers (or at least the ones who comment) seem to have the middle name Jean. [...]
1) Middle name = Lenore
2) All & Sundry
3) Hmmm, Harry Potter.
4) I would name her Alexa.
5) I hate The Simpsons & Survivor equally.
6) I like some opera, not all.
1) When I was single it was Arlington
2) Fluid Pudding
3) A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
4) Violet (I had that name picked out long before Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner named their daughter)
5) Infomercials
6) I like bits and pieces from some famous operas, but I’d never go sit in a theater and listen to an entire show.
1. Middle name = Kay (kaleigh is a nickname, made from my first and middle names)
2. Slouching Mom
3. Saint Francis by Nikos Kazinzakis (sp?)
4. Marley Eliza or Darby Grace
5. Sitcoms in general, as well as Gray’s Anatomy
6. I like opera, especially singing it. In fact, I’m listening to it right now.
Delurking!
1. Louise
2. Lately, it’s The Pioneer Woman
3. I hate this question…I’m going to go with the Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
4. Sophia (Sofia? I can never decide)
5. Tila Tequila.
6. I LOVE opera.
Janet (shut up)
Joy Unexpected
The Pillars of the Earth – Ken Follet
Sarah or Goon Squad…can’t decide
Most anything on the Speed channel
no
Ellen
I Am Bossy
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Mira
Jose Luis Sin Censura
Abso-freaking-lutely
1. Ann
2. Amalah
3. Hmm… Probably The Thirteenth Tale
4. Abigail Rose
5. Survivor
6. Never heard an opera, I’ve been very deprived in my life.
1. Alayne
2. None better than yours!
3. Pillars of the Earth. The one that most influenced my life – Exodus (I was only 10 or 11 at the time.
4. Mical
5. Entertainment Tonight
6. Yes, in limited doses
1. Mayer
2. So the Fish Said…
3. Hmmm,lately…The Time Traveler’s Wife
4. Stella Sophia (after my Grandma)
5. Lord, where to begin!?!!? CSI Miami, All reality TV, on and on and on….
6. Yes ma’am
1. elizabeth
2. swistle or the pioneer woman
3. outlander series by diana gabaldon
4. emily jane or carson kate
5. hmm. wonder pets.
6. yes but only in the tub. listening to it makes me want to lie down and soak and it annoys me when i hear it and i can’t go do that.
1. Jean
2. Bub and Pie
3. “A Wrinkle in Time”
4. Maggie
5. All reality TV
6. Just when I need a good nap
1. Anne
2. The Pioneer Woman (I’m a groupie. Get on board.)
3. I recently read Truth and Beauty by Ann Patchett and really enjoyed it. I can’t say it’s the best ever written but it was the first one I thought of.
4. Stratton (named after a woman I met a while ago who is just amazing)
5. Any of those Reality TV shows that humiliate the participants. I think it’s sick.
6) I went to an outdoor Opera performance in The Domain in Sydney and it was spine-tingling. And I love The Flower Duet from Lakme (made famous as the soundtrack to the British Airways ad campaign). And I get goosebumps every time I hear Pavarotti’s version of Nessun Dorma. So yeah, I guess I like Opera.
1. Marie
2. Looky Daddy!
3. The Marriage of Sticks by Jonathan Carroll
4. Lillian or Carolyn, middle name Suzanne (I’m a traditionalist, what can I say..)
5. Any and all “reality” shows
6. Not particularly
So what are your answers, Sarah?
1) Anne
2) Pioneer Woman
3) Dances with Wolves, Michael Blake
4) Sophie Rose
5)The Apprentice
6) Iffy
1. Lyn
2. Where am i going…and why am i in this handbasket?
3. The Catcher in the Rye
4. Lilah Corrine
5. The Office
6. Eh, i don’t hate it
1) Ask Alison.
2) Aw, jeez. Do you know how many blogs I read?
3) Most recently? Middlesex.
4) Lucy. I’ve always wanted to walk in the door and yell, “Lucy! I’m home!” OK. I figured I’d name my next dog Lucy, but this’ll do.
5) The local news.
6) Not so much.
1) What is your middle name?
Anne
2) What is your favorite blog to read? (After mine, of course.)
favorite? Moosh in Indy? picking a favorite is WAY TOO HARD.
3) In your opinion, what is the best novel ever written?
Franny and Zooey is my favorite…but i don’t know if it’s the best one ever written. i really think Love in the Time of Cholera was fantastic too.
4) If you had a girl baby tomorrow and you got to name her without any input from anyone else, what would you choose? (Don
1) Jean
2) There are so many it’s hard to pick, but probably Joy Unexpected.
3) A Separate Peace
4) Chloe
5) That stupid show with Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie. It literally made me want to hurl my shoe at my television.
6) Depends on the Opera, but mostly yes.
I’m such a damn fan of these random questions.
1) Anne
2) Hmm. Currently obsessed with Pioneer Woman.
3) The Great Gatsby
4) Jocelyn (always loved that name)
5) God, so much bad TV. But honestly I hate with a passion that stupid 5 minute comcast segment that comes on Headline News at 25 and 55 after the hour. (Do you know what I’m talking about? HATE!!!)
6) I’m not familiar with much opera, but there are a few songs/singers I like. Or at least that I don’t dislike.
1. Michael
2. Caveat emptor
3. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
4. Amanda
5. Yes.
1) May
2) I love so many…but Redneck Mommy always makes me laugh
3) Hmmmm either Pride and Prejudice or Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
4) Gemma
5)Just one?????? Pushing Daisies
6) I like SOME Arias and my fave that doesn’t put me to sleep is Madam Butterfly
1) Elizabeth Hightower … my first birth middle name and my step-dad’s last name
2) I love to read Zoot’s blog.
3) Best novel? The Poisonwood Bible (by Barbara Kingsolver) makes me bawl every time I read it.
4) Helena, a tribute to my grandma Helen.
5) Seinfeld.
6) Only like opera if it’s in German so I understand it.
1) Kathryn
2) Too hard – I have far too many in my reader
3) At the moment it is The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom
4) I always wanted it to be Caitlyn then my best friend from school used it for her kid. So now I would have no idea. I’d certainly be very pleased to have the problem of needing to pick a name!
5) Big Brother
6) I can intellectually appreciate it, and have studied it at a university level. However I would not choose to go and see it or listen to it. I would listen to Carmina Burana, that’s one cool musical experience. I’ve also performed in it as instrumental and choir member and it really is a rush. I’m not sure if that’s technically an opera though.
1) Ruti
2) Say La Vee
3) A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
4) Eden
5) Dr Phil
6) I love Opera. Love it. I’ve even sat through the ENTIRE Ring Cycle with my leg in a cast in the worst hot summer in years with NO air conditioning.
1. Dawn
2. Pioneer Woman
3. Best novel ever written? Too much pressure!
4. Ava
5. Brothers & Sisters
6. Yeppers
1) Lyn
2) Pink is the New Blog
3) I haven’t read it yet
4) Scarlett
5) The View
6) HATE IT!!! *covering my ears*
1. Dean
2. http://blogmaverick.com
5. Sword and the Chain (I am not positive how great this book is but I read the series when I was young and it had a profound enough effect that I look for copies of it in old book stores)
4. Genevieve (Genny)
5. So you idolize dancing with the next top model
6. Some of it
1) Raymond
2) crabbydad makes me laugh regularly
3) Watershipdown, I read it once a year.
4) Deirdre
5) Too many to list, but I had to pick one, Survivor
6) I appreciate it, but don’t like it.
1. Lynn (zzzzzzz)
2. there are blogs out there other than yours? you don’t say.
3. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
4. we’re having a girl, fer chrissake, and we can’t come up with one freaking name. I’m going to have to steal one from this post.
5. Survivor or the bachelor
6. I’ll listen to it when the spirit moves me.
1) Ann, like half of the other women in the US.
2) When he ever gets around to posting, MetroDad. When he doesn’t, RudeCactus.
3) Gahhh this ones too hard. I’ll go with To Kill a Mockingbird
4) Sydney Regan or Addison Paige.
5) Scrubs
6) I can appriciate it for what it is, but not really
Middle name is Ann
Fav blog after yours is QofSpain
I’ve always been partial to “To Kill A Mockingbird”. I’ve probably read it 30 times or so.
I would name my girl Georgia Jayne
Barney or Teletubbies. I can handle anything else.
I like modern opera (I think) but please, for the love of all things holy, don’t ask me to name anything. My answer will always be Andrew Lloyd Weber (Unless you say Dr. Jekyl/Mr. Hyde then I think of Sebastian Bach {yummy} or David Hasselhoff {not so much yummy})
Wow. Sorry bout that.
1. Elizabeth
2. Oh, The Joys
3. Well my favorite is Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein.”
4. Jillian Michael (OK I just googled the name and discovered it’s taken by one of the trainers on “The Biggest Loser.” ACK!!! Nothing is original any more. So how about Michale Jillian…does that work?)
5. Any of the gossipy about movie stars shows.
6. Not so much.
1. Jean
2. Toss up between I am bossy and Oh the joys love them both
3. Nikita Rose
4. the house wives of orange county!
5. GOD NO!
P.S I don’t read Novels.
1. Julia
2. Oh, the Joys and Metrodad
3. To Kill a Mockingbird
4. Margaret Julia Anne
5. news in general, too depressing!
6. Only at the Santa Fe Opera, where you can tailgate before. The husbands also run out for drinks at “halftime” (or intermission for the rest of us….)
1) Thomas
2) Metrodad
3) The Mists of Avalon is a fave but there are sooo many others.
4) I picked my daughter’s name so I haven’t a clue about another.
5) Moment of Truth – the show about lying is awful.
6) My sister-in-law is a professional opera singer. Having said that… No.
1) Elizabeth
2) Oh I am terrible at picking favorites…
3) I love anything and everything by Jodi Picoult
4) Elise
5) CSI:Miami
6) On occassion, but I don’t seek it out very often.
1) What is your middle name? Jean. It’s mom’s too.
2) What is your favorite blog to read? (After mine, of course.) Kelley at http://magnetoboldtoo.com
3) In your opinion, what is the best novel ever written? A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
4) If you had a girl baby tomorrow and you got to name her without any input from anyone else, what would you choose? (Don
1-I have two Regina Kenetia
2-Hygiene chronicles
3-uh that would be like picking my favorite kitty
4-Iphigenia
5-american idol
6 no it’s painful to listen to
1. Rachel
2. Dooce
3. Watership Down
4. Gita Anat
5. What’s TV?? What’s there to like about any of it?
6. Love it.
1. Deborah
2. EW Popwatch
3. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
4. Nora
5. The View
6. No
1) Michelle
2) Julia.typepad.com
3) To Kill a Mockingbird
4) Addison
5)Bachelor (anything reality, other than AI)
6) Honestly never been exposed to it
1. Estelle
2. MetroDad
3. To Kill a Mockingbird
4. Zosia (Polish for Sophia)
5. Tila Tequila, American Idol, any Reality show, really
6. While I don’t understand much opera, I enjoyed it because I lived with 3 opera singers in college–twoh ave gone on to do quite well. It was great to hear them singing in the shower.
1) Reece
2) rockstarmommy
3) I just can’t decide
4) Grace
5) Fear Factor
6) Sure
1. Nishan
2. Daily Kos
3. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
4. Isabella
5. Reality TV
6. Meh
1. Jean
2. Passive Aggressive Notes
3. Anne of Green Gables
4. Ella or Ava, probably.
5. Either “Singing Bee” or “Don’t Forget The Lyrics.” Both awful.
6. I am open to it.
1. Marie
2. http://www.dooce.com
3. Atlas Shrugged, and not because it makes me look snooty.
4. Rhiannon
5. Wow Wow Wubbzy or Yo Gabba Gabba
6. Depends. Some are worthy.
1. Anne
2. http://www.sothefishsaid.com (WAITING FOR WALLY)
3. I Know This Much is True – Wally Lamb
4. Meredith (the town my husband and I married in)
5. DOG BOUNTY HUNTER (I always knew he was an ass)
6. Love Opera, but know little to nothing about it
1 – Jean
2 – Crazy Days and Nights (celebrity gossip with the added bonus of “Full Frontal Fridays”) A totally guilty pleasure but I feel absolutely no guilt.
3 – Sentimental favorite because it was the first “adult” book I read, when I was 8 or 9, “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”.
4 – Lucy or Stella
5 – “That’s So Raven”
6 – Yes
1. Elizabeth
2. so the fish said, skull-a-day, postsecret, d-listed
3. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole.
4. Ann Coulter
5. sometimes…