Ask Me Anything August 2011

Wow…due to all the stuff that went on last week and the busy work week the week before, I forgot to finish Ask Me Anything! August 2011. Sorry about that, folks. I suck. Kinda. Anyway, Scotty has a couple that will result in a couple of lame answers, unfortunately. Not because they’re lame questions, though! Just my answers. You’ve periodically extolled the virtues of spum, any thoughts on the various whisky families? I know virtually nothing about whiskey. Seriously, I’ve had extremely little whiskey in my life. I occasionally have a bottle of Seagram’s 7 around because I like 7&7’s,Down the rabbit hole….

Continuing to answer queries from Ask Me Anything! August 2011…. Lynn has a couple of good ones: Imagine that Star Wars, Star Trek, and Firefly do not exist. What would be your favorite space opera? Wow, this is a very tough question. Those are some of the big space opera franchises, aren’t they? Without the first two, I’m not sure I even have a deep love of space opera to begin with. And Firefly is just all kinds of great, even if it is a bit uneven at times. I think that my favorite space opera outside of those would be a literaryDown the rabbit hole….

Continuing to answers the questions from Ask Me Anything! August 2011 (yeah, I’m going well into September with the answers. At the rate I’m going, I’ll still be answering when Ask Me Anything! February 2012 rolls around!). Anyhoo, as always, Roger has a bunch of good queries. Do you tend toward melancholy or depression? If so, are you aware of what triggers it? And what do you do to overcome it? Depression? No. Not that I know of, anyway. Melancholy? Sometimes. Maybe I tend toward melancholy a bit more often than most other folks, but I’m not sure if that’sDown the rabbit hole….

No, I haven’t forgotten about Ask Me Anything! August 2011. In fact, I’m going to give some more answers now! ::  A reader e-mails: When you were high school, did you ever play a prank on anyone. Or Streak? Well, as for the latter…no. God, no. No no a thousand times no. I mean, really — nobody wants to see that, right? As for pranks in general, not a whole lot. I attempted here and there, but what was weird is that a lot of times people would prank me, but when I turned around and pranked them, you’d think I had thrown tomato sauce on theDown the rabbit hole….

Continuing with answers to queries posed as part of Ask Me Anything! August 2011. I have a regular reader who occasionally corresponds by e-mail, and here are the questions this reader has posed: I’m on vacation right now, so: what’s your dream vacation? What’s the best (real) vacation you’ve been on? How much vacation do you get in a year and how do you like to spit it up (or do you like to do it all at one time)? My dream vacation would involve all-expenses paid to…someplace. Anyplace. Could be Disneyworld. Could be Portland/Seattle. Could be London. A cruiseDown the rabbit hole….

Continuing to answer queries from Ask Me Anything! August 2011! LCScotty asks: When are we going to have another WNY blogger meetup? I have no idea. Next! OK, fleshing that out a bit…I’m not sure why it is, but it seems to me that the WNY blogging community doesn’t really exist anymore as such. Which isn’t to say that it’s completely disappeared, but it’s changed in a lot of ways, some of which I don’t mind, some of which bug me a little. But it’s the way things are. Five or six years ago, blogging was pretty much it inDown the rabbit hole….

Time to clear out some more Answers from Ask Me Anything! August 2011, huzzah! Jenny (of Saturday Centus fame) has a couple: Were you the kid in school always getting in trouble for using the red crayon to color the sky and the blue crayon to color the grass? I was. I did that, a bit. I was also never one to stay inside the lines. The lines sucked. I hated the lines. The lines were evil. I do remember my kindergarten teacher getting irritated when I colored a person orange, which I did because orange was the closest thingDown the rabbit hole….

OK, we’re two weeks into the month, so it’s time to start dishing up some answers to questions asked as part of Ask Me Anything! Augusts 2011. (By the way, I’m not closing submissions yet! You can still ask stuff!) Andy asks: So I was up there at the Sabres store in HSBC Arena AND everything WAS 1/2 TO 75% OFF!!! Do you know why? I honestly don’t know, but I assume it’s for the usual reason: clearing out the old stuff in favor of the new stuff. I know that’s a boring answer, but there’s no way they’re notDown the rabbit hole….

A reminder, folks: Ask Me Anything! August 2011 is underway. Post questions in comments on this post, or via e-mail, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, or Pony Express. No limit on questions! No subject matter off limits (although answers may not be what you expect)! Every answer of value must GO!!! Share This PostDown the rabbit hole….

It’s that time again — Ask Me Anything! This used to be a February-only thing, but seeing as how it seems silly to only do it once a year, we now do it twice a year. Or something like that. Anyhow, all queries are welcome — serious queries, unserious queries, queries about any topic at all. Leave queries in comments herein, or e-mail them, or get ’em to me via Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, or Google+. I’m everywhere, I am. It’s like all the people who are normally around you are me! (I got that from an old SNL sketch inDown the rabbit hole….