Okay, I surrender. You know those email surveys so-called friends send you, demanding you divulge secrets about yourself in heavily-categorized formats? —Those intimate personality surveys, and busy-body quizzes?
I've always deleted them.
Then I heard from a very old friend, Jack Davis, whom I haven't laid eyes on in years. Nostalgia overcame me. I guess I wanted to surprise him. But now I've decided to try and surprise you.
Four Things You May Not Have Known About Me:
A) Four jobs I have had in my life:
1. McDonald's Golden Girl... my first job
2. Founding organizer of Teamsters For Democratic Union
3. University of Louisville banquet department
4. Fully-Clothed Porn Extra
B) Four movies I've watched over and over:
1. Smoker with Sharon Mitchell, Ron Jeremy, David Christopher and John Leslie
2. Diabolik
3. Wizard of Oz
4. Anything with Helen Mirren
C) Four places I have existed:
1. Edmonton, Alberta
2. Detroit, Six Mile and Livernois, Michigan
3. Beverly Glen, Los Angeles, CA
4. Jakarta, Indonesia— okay, I was only conceived there.
D) Four TV shows I love to watch:
1. None in progress... I rent the DVDs. No TV reception.
2. Currently: Rescue Me
3. Recently: Prime Suspect
4. Childhood: Julia Child
E) Four places I have been on vacation:
1. Marble Mountains, Northern California
2. Millau, the place in Southern France where they burned the McDonald's down
3. Tofino storm watch, British Columbia
4. Cross-country, US, '67 Mustang with a dog named Bandit
F) Websites I visit daily:
1. PatternReview
2. Santa Cruz Senile, Cops and Courts section
3. BlogPulse
4. Public library online catalog
G) Four of my favorite foods:
1. Tacos con Carnitas
2. Anything from the garden
3. Coffee Ice cream with chocolate sauce
4. Homemade bread from William
H) Four places I would like to be right now:
1. With or without money is the question....
2. No Money: Seabright Beach bonfire
3. Lotsa Money: New York
4. Either Way: Vancouver
Then there's all the places I've never been that I'd like to see: Iceland, Italy, Iran, India. I want to go on an "I" tour. Baghdad was on it until very recently.
