When skimming a magazine (or book or newspaper) do you flip through the pages from front to back or back to front?
I do it front to back, like a normal person. (Ha)
From what I understand, though, quite a few oddballs (making them not quite so odd, I guess), do it backwards, so ads cost almost as much at the back of a magazine, as they do at the front. The middle are the cheapest to buy.
Have you noticed a climate change in the area where you live over the past few years?
It goes up and down, unseasonable this, unseasonable that. My opinion? Global warming is very real, but it's not something that you are going to notice all of a sudden. Come on. This is a cumulative effect. And it's the earth, which has a wildly complex set of influences on its atmosphere. Just because global warming's been in the news so hot and heavy, and we have a few mild winters, people are freaking. There have been similar ebbs and flows over time. But good! Let people freak. If they're silly enough to think that winter '07 is the sudden result of one hundred years of industrialism, let them. Maybe it will scare people into taking our effect on the climate seriously.
Maybe people will push more for better types of auto engines, stricter enforcements on industry (can you believe the bullshit idea of sharing pollution "credits"?!?). I should think our key goal now is to get the hell away from our dependency on oil and so the middle east ... in doing that we would be on the road to solving two major problems: a horrible source of violent clashing, and our fucking up of the atmosphere. Although it almost killed me to see Bush spout that idea as if it were a new one, at the recent state of the union address. Dumbass.
Oh, and hi! I'm back!
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What TV show(s) will you be watching this season? Why?
Submitted by ducnly.vox.com.
OH MY GOD. There are waaaay too many shows to mention, so how about I just tell you the ones I'll be watching TONIGHT.
Studion 60
Heroes
The Class
How I Met Your Mother
Prisonbreak
Nikki has discovered how to walk with this walking toy thing at MrZ's parents' house. It's hilarious. And cute.
If you could only save one thing in a house fire (thing, not person), what would it be and why?
Submitted by donnunn.
Laptop. Prior to 1996, I would have said photo albums. Now they're one and the same.
What time period would you have lived in, if you could have lived at any time?
Well, that's hard to answer. I am completely fascinated with the art, style, and popular culture of several different eras, but I'm a huge (HUGE) fan of modern medical science, and I'm pretty attached to this interweb thing, too. Also, there is pretty much no time prior to 1950 during which I'd want to live, if I wasn't filthy fucking rich. Life was hard, hard, hard for folks "back when", you know?
If I had to pick one past time in which to live, at my normal middle-class level, I'd say I wish I was born in, oh, 1937. I think that'd put me in particular times at particular ages I think would be fun to experience.
What's your middle name? Is there a story or history behind it?
My middle name is Elizabeth. For my paternal grandmother, a very fragile creature, who fell apart with mental illness when her husband left her when my father was 4, temporarily catapulting my father and his older brother into the home of strangers, a pair of farmers in the Australian countryside, who abused them ... yay!
I barely knew her ... she was 80 when I was born ... also, lived in Sydney, so that meant I saw her, oh ... 4? 5 times?
She was nice. Sweet. Hazy. Deaf. Used to send me packages of Aussie wildflower tea towels and children's handkerchiefs and little bottles of violet perfume from the pharmacy. She also made me a mess of doll's clothes; I still have all of them.
And actually, Elizabeth isn't my middle name anymore. It's now my maiden name ... which I won't share because it is all but unique in the U.S. (only 12 here) and it would make me too easy to Google. But I don't miss the Elizabeth. It never felt right.
I went to Old Navy last night to buy my LilZ some slacks for a wedding. They had three buggies (that's what we call them in the South, you call them "shopping carts" because you are no fun (kidding)) full of mens clothes at the front of the store. They said $.97, $1.97 and $2.97. Can you believe that? Old Navy had carts full of clothes for less than $3. It was awesome. LilZ picked out three tops he liked. That's cheaper than Wal-Mart, for chrissakes. We rock.
