Hot Questions / Muggy Answers for a Similar Kind of July!

Q:  What are five things that get you through the summer?
A:  Air conditioning — number one!  Cans of Spiders-Die-Like-The-Filthy-Pigs-That-You-Are Bug Spray (lots of them) — number two!  Islands as Sanctuary — number three!  Multiple showers throughout the day — number four!  Lack of clothing by others as titillating scenery enhancement — number five!

Q:  Do you stop and stoop to pick up change from the ground?
A:  Pennies — hell no.  Nickels — probably not.  Dimes — maybe.  Quarters and anything bigger — definitely!  I also never carry change — change is a bulgy pocket-ruiner.  When I am out and collect change from purchases, I come home and put it all into a piggy bank (literally — a copper piggy bank).  When the bank gets full, I take it all to the grocery store and turn it into a voucher — usually nets me around $40.

Q:  What’s more adorable — babies or puppies?
A:  Puppies, of course.  You come upon a puppy and it starts jumping and wagging and bouncing and squeaking because it is so happy to see you.  It wants you to hold it and pet it and it wants to cover you with licky kisses and it squirms in your arm for joy.  Puppies are happy merely to be in you presence and to hear your voice of approval.  Babies?  They stare at you — sizing you up.  What can they get out of you?  What can you do for them?  If nothing — they scream and cry. If you give them something they take it — then they scream and cry.  Puppies wake you up at night crying because they love you and are lonely.  Babies wake you up at night crying because they aren’t done using you yet.  Puppies grow up to be faithful companions.  Babies grow up turning on you at two’s, teen’s, and when you grow old.  I could go on… but I wont.

Q:  Seen any scary movies lately?
A:  I watched Re-Cycle, which is a movie from Thailand.  It is about a novelist who starts to write a novel about ghosts and things start to go weird around her flat.  She gets sucked into a nightmare world populated by undead and lost souls and spends the movie desperately trying to escape.  There were two scenes in the movie that gave me the willies.  One was an elevator scene.  I have had many nightmares over the years about getting into an elevator to go up and instead it plummets down into the dark.  When the doors finally open it is pitch black but I can hear things in the darkness coming for the elevator and I can’t make the doors close or the elevator ascend.  So the elevator scene in Re-Cycle hit home.  The other scene was a forest of hanged men that come down off their nooses to attack her.  They are zombies with elongnated necks and as they approach it gets darker and darker.  The scene was done pretty well.  Despite the fact that it was dubbed, I loved the movie.  It was very surreal (one of my favorite things) and had a couple of plot twists that just added to the overall enjoyment.

Q:  What is something that you really really wished would happen this week?
A:  I wish I would walk into a room somewhere — anywhere — and have someone see me, make eye contact, and light up like I was the most wonderful thing that could happen to them.  In my dreams, I guess.

July 23, 2010  Tags:   Posted in: Potpourri for $400

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