DELAYTEFUL!

How have you been?

iI iMade iA iMistake iAs iYou iProbably iNoticed.

iI iAm iSorry iMr. iJobs.

How does the world see you?
“Up The Neck” – Pretenders (in reference to my ‘stack of dimes’ neck, no doubt)

Will I have a happy life?"
“Smooth Death” – Danielson Family (I’m scared)

What do my friends really think of me?
“Baby” – MarchFourth Marching Band (tru dat; my friends are right on)

How can I make myself happy?
“Heartbreak Hill” – Emmylou Harris (I have always found solace where I am broken?)

What should I do with my life?
“Symphony #27 in G” – London Symphony Orchestra (I should be a G, shouldn’t I?)

Will I ever have children?
“Hold Tight” – Mark Geary (O-KAY!?)

What is some good advice for me?
“English Girls Approximately” – Ryan Adams (IPod, I’m a married man!)

How will I be remembered?
“Feeling of Falling” – Bonnie Raitt (Ouch)

What is my signature dancing song?
“Ventilator Blues” – The Rolling Stones (I’m getting old and out of breath)

What do I think my current theme song is?
“Not Far Away” – Yonder Mountain String Band & Benny Galloway
(A song about men working in a hole in a mountain with dynamite- D-A-N-G-E-R!)

What does everyone else think my current theme song is?
"Labour of Love" – Frente! (Ask Katherine about this)

What song will play at my funeral?
"Boy With The Thorn In His Side" – J. Mascis (Bitter Bitter)

What is my day going to be like?
"Factory Girl" - Whiskeytown (Pretty song, but could I get some love, please? Here's a line: 'I took this shift to be with her')

Rock Star Name (first pet-current street): Missy 227

Gangsta (favorite ice cream flavor-fav. cookie): Chocolate Coffee Sugar

Fly Guy (first initial of 1st name-first three letters of last): B-Per...this one cracks me up. I am such a B-Per.

Detective (fav. color-fav. animal): Blue Dog

Soap Opera (middle name-city name where you were born): Edward Willoughby

Star Wars (1st 3 letters of last name-1st 2 letters of 1st name): Perbe

Superhero ("The"-2nd fav. color-fav. drink): The Green Cola

NASCAR (grandfathers' first names): Eddie Ray

Stripper (fav. perfume-fav. candy): Right Guard Hard Strawberry Candy

Witness Protection (Mother and Father's middle names): Jay Katherine

I will officially change my name to one of these, if I receive 20 legitimate comments from 20 different people. I decide what constitutes legitimate.

(a) At some point in my early elementary life, I dressed as the Unknown Comic for halloween at school. A paper bag with eye-holes and a mouth hole. As you may suspect, a few classmates and teachers were perplexed. I abandoned the gear for my standby Frankenstein mask by the end of the school day.

(b) Have I ever told you about the time a mother and daughter saw the "We're Open" sign in my bedroom window which faced Lake Street (that great street)? I had come across this signage at Country Kitchen...anyways, this small family knocked on the door to inquire as to what was open. My roommate later wondered if I should have shown them around and sold some junk. They stood at the doorway, listened to my humble regrets, and returned to their station wagon, heads hanging, hands empty.

(c) Oh, another Halloween memory. I found the remains of a flower costume in Downtown Kent and added the petals around my poorly painted scary face and let many in the vicinity hear that "I am an angry flower!"

(d) I have to drink some sort of liquid every time I eat. Deal with it.

(e) I always "fix" my hair before leaving the house, even to go to the gym.

(bonus +1) WARNING: The following statement may make some readers wish that they had never continued reading....I will flip out, if I find a stray hair sprouting from my back or shoulders, demanding that it be plucked immediately! Sometimes, Katherine will pretend like she won't help, and I will nearly cry.

I would tag you, but you just yelled "The Price is Right".

a conversation starter, I know,
but shouldn't we carry these things around with us
in case we end up on that island.

1) One book that changed my life: I don't recall the name but it was a big book.
2) Read more than once: A New Path to the Waterfall by Raymond Carver.
3) Desert Island: Anything by Maj Ragain; a book, a poem, a phrase that won't let go.
4) Richard Brautigan makes me laugh.
5) Cry, Cry, Cry: A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis.
6) Wished I'd: The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien.
7) Book burning: The Artist's Way Yucky Yuck!
8) Currently reading for months in a row: Always Running by Luis J. Rodriguez.
9) Meaning to read: Post Office by Charles Bukowski
10) Tag