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Lamb chops. Can't stand pork.Collectivist or individualist? Rand is too much in my mind thanks to Lit class...
Individualist. I don't know that I think it's a good idea for Roark to blow up Cortlandt Homes, but there can't be a trial if he doesn't.Frank Lloyd Wright or Frank Lloyd Wright?
I loved when he blew up Cortlandt! Fellow pyro... lol.Don't take that seriously...
Haha. Neither.
Boogie shoes or those cool new Nike Back to the Future 2 shoes? :D
Blueberries and cream.Coffee black or with cream?
red Berries :)at&t or verison wireless??
Coffee black!And Neither AT&T or Verizon - I'm in Canada of America.
Butch Cassidy or The Sundance Kid?
Hmmm.Perhaps it would be better to ask...
Paul Newman or Robert Redford?
I had intended to reply to #795 with an anecdote, but got distracted. Years ago, when I was a student at the LSU branch in Shreveport, the city was celebrating an anniversary. Milton Finley, my history professor, asked the class if we had been in the lobby of the First National Bank downtown and seen the photos of the city's founders. The bank had paid some studio to make huge reproductions for display. Smiling, Finley said he thought the pictures looked vaguely familiar, but it wasn't until later that he realized who they were: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. He said he guessed there were no extant pictures of the city's founders and that the bank had been satisfied with something that looked old.I'd better let one of the girls decide about Paul Newman and Robert Redford. I'd be inclined to vote for Newman because of his salad dressing.
Is Italian bread what pizzas are made out of? I’ll take that!Blue ink or black ink?
Ballpoint. I like the idea of writing with newspaper ink.Bic or Zebra?
Acrylic was all we used in the painting classes I took, but there's just something about watercolor; and since Alex was kind enough to leave the choice to me: watercolor! What a choice to make.To Alex's, I'll pick paper. It's easier to draw on.
Here's one for you girls. Given two handsome men of high intelligence, one quiet, introspective, and kind, the other suavely macho and flamboyant but cruel, which would you choose?
Quiet, introspective, and kind--definitely.Same question--just switch "two handsome men" to "two beautiful women."
IQI, of course.Now lets make it a little tougher.
One QIK, the other quiet, mysterious, and powerful?
QIK. A quiet, introspective woman is mysterious!Like men, women who are powerful aren’t always power seeking, but often they are. People who lust for power and control have always rubbed me the wrong way.
Danishes: cream cheese filled or chocolate filled?
Cream cheese filled (I've never tried one with chocolate).Written or oral conversation?
Written.Someone who is sure about things or someone who is at home with uncertainty?
At home with uncertainty! One of my favourite quotations goes something like The hero is someone unsure of himself, while the villain has already become something. (I'll go and find it when I get home.An action hero or anti-hero?
Hero, the kind of hero Lord Jim is in the Richard Brooks film. Jim says, “I have been so-called coward and a so-called hero, yet there’s not the thickness of a sheet of paper between them. Maybe cowards and heroes are just ordinary men who, for a split second, do something out of the ordinary.”When I was sixteen, I recorded that movie on audiotape (VHS wasn’t out yet) and, over a period of months, listened to it so many times that I ended up memorizing most of the dialogue. I did it as an experiment to see if I could change the way I talked, to see if I could level my accent. It was a lot of work, that involved saying the various parts over and over in imitation of the voices on film until it became almost automatic.
Years later, when I was in graduate school, a visiting professor from India asked me if I were English. I told him no, that I was from Texas. He looked at me very strangely and said that was impossible. I asked him why. He said he couldn’t put his finger on just what it was, but that something about the way I talked was distinctly English, not American.
Richard Brooks’ Lord Jim or David Lean’s Great Expectations?
Lord Jim. Oddly enough I'm not a great fan of Lean's directing style. Except for Laurence of Arabia I have struggled to sit through the movies of his I've tried.And I located the 'Hero' quotation I mentioned in #810:
The hero is the man actively engaged in becoming himself – never a very reassuring sight. The villain, on the other hand, has already become something.The Magnificent Seven or The Seven Samurai?Donald Richie.The Films of Akira Kurosawa, Third Edition, Expanded and Updated. University of California Press, © 1984 by The Regents of the University of California. Cited in The Last Samurai, by Helen DeWitt pg.235.
The Seven Samurai fo sho, got extra credit in my world civilizations class last year for watching it.
Just got a volume of both of these so and not sure where to start so..
Robert Frost or Emily Dickinson?
Just got a volume of both of these so and not sure where to start so..
Robert Frost or Emily Dickinson?
When I was younger, Frost, but now that I'm getting older I think Dickinson.Following this theme, ...
Pablo Neruda or Federico Garcia Lorca?
M wrote: "Hero, the kind of hero Lord Jim is in the Richard Brooks film. Jim says, “I have been so-called coward and a so-called hero, yet there’s not the thickness of a sheet of paper between them. Maybe co..."M re posts 811 & 12, you have managed to be a participant in what I call a synchronicity-petite or, in Japanese, a fushigi. And since I know you are interested in Jung, if you are curious I blog these fushigi when they are 'strong' enough — which this one was. If curious, you can read it at To Speak of Conversations with Carl Jung and a Sigmund Freud fushigi.
Lizards or Fishsticks and Custard? Seeing as I was left option-less...
Mince meat I'm guessing. I hate pumpkin.Nerimon or Charlieissocoollike?
What kind of Candy? well... technically both.Practice even though you don't know what you're doing or procrastinate?
sore throat. Got one right now.Post Secret or FailBlog?
thrillers. Drama is... ugh... annoying.Drama class or English class?
CBS... is Canadian? Forget them both, CBC FTW!CBC Radio 1 or Radio 2?
CBCR2Amanda are you a Canuck?
TV or Radio?
I'm a Canuck. XDRadio. I watch most of my TV on the internet anyways.
Hockey or Curling?
True Canadian question; poor Canadian answer. Curling.the Maple Leafs or Les Canadiens?
True Canadian question! Poor Canadian answer: curling.The Maple Leafs or Les Canadiens?
Tis partially a Canadian thing - professional hockey which is, I understand, big in the USA too. So I'm guessing you're not into sports.Orchestra more often than choir.
A Christmas Carol or It Happened One Night?
Are you still up? I live on the west coast, so it's not too late here. Yea! for your choice - that's mine too.Hmmmm. Neither, actually. Just right hair - neither extreme, please. Although, there is a really nice and attractive woman who works at a neighbourhood shop who has the thickest most amazing hair I have ever seen. Her hair would put most weaves to shame. But still, it comes down to the person. I always think that coping with that head must be nearly a full time job.
Motorcycle helmet hair or convertible hair?
Either one, as long as it’s thin and straight.A gorgeous woman with an ordinary intelligence, or a woman with ordinary looks but a gorgeous intelligence?
Gorgeous intelligence wins every day.Re-watching a Seinfeld show or re-reading an old book?
Staying in, if I don’t have to eat dinner.Electric guitar or acoustic?
That translates to: "M mouthed at Alex wordlessly, unable to articulate his question."
Both, but not at the same time.Keeping to the food theme, onion sandwiches or peanut butter and bologna?
Saute (sp?) the onions in grease and I'll take those.Liver and spinach or haggis (Scottish favorite: a load of meat and organs stuffed and boiled inside of sheep's stomach; an all-natural hotdog)?
I’ve eaten meatloaf but never a meatloaf sandwich. It’s probably better with bread. It’s probably better with anything. I usually load it up with Tabasco sauce and ketchup.
Pickled beets, but just barely!Borscht or Saurkraut?
My wife says I would like borscht. I love sausage, especially if it’s spicy!Peanut-butter cups or Queen Anne cherries?
Dogs, without question. I'm not quite as enthusiastic as my character Terry (he's making me do research) but I love dogs. Cats really don't like me, though.Closed-off or open floor plan?
With a slight hesitant ambivalence, open.Golf shirts or button ups?
Button ups, plaid please.Paper or e-books?
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Pork chops or lamb chops?