Quiz-Things (Page 17)

Your questions are in comments below. (Unless you’re reading this the second I publish, in which case, give me a few minutes to type them!) Share This PostDown the rabbit hole….

Roger hit me with some questions from the Great Interview Meme, and I’m now getting ’round to answering them. Because I am just that prompt, let me tell you! 1. So what ARE the other bloggers, other than yourself, specifically griping about when they talk about “the folks in Albany”? It’s generally a short-hand for the state government, which in our state is rife with patronage, corrupt, devoted to maintaining the status quo of power, et cetera and so forth. Basically, “the folks in Albany” is a shorthand for “the giant f***ing albatross that’s been hung around the neck ofDown the rabbit hole….

The first answers are in from my questions on the Interview Meme: Lynn, Laura, Dave, Tosy and Cosh, and TeflonJedi. Everyone else, your questions await in the comments to that very first post linked above, so grab ’em! (And if anyone else wants five questions, I’ll still entertain any late-comers. Such is my devotion to the great Interview Meme!) UPDATE: Minutes after I published, I saw that Two Write Hands has answered as well. Share This PostDown the rabbit hole….

All those of you who requested questions for The Great Interview Meme will find your questions posted in the comments on that post! Get thee hence! And if anyone else wants questions, you can still volunteer. I love the Five Questions game! Share This PostDown the rabbit hole….

For those who volunteered to receive five questions from me for the great interview meme-thing, I’ll be generating those over the weekend and will send them out on Monday. If anyone else wants in, just leave the comment there (or here). And since this is a reciprocal thing, I may ask a few of you to hit me with five questions as well. Share This PostDown the rabbit hole….

I see that one of my favorite blog-memes is making the rounds again: the Five Question Interview, in which I answer five questions posed to me by the blogger on whose blog I saw the meme in play (in this case, Electronic Cerebrectomy), and then offer to ask any questions myself of anyone who wishes them! Hoo-ray! This game comes around about once a year or so — I suppose that’s how long it takes before it wends its way out of my little corner of Blogistan and then back again, but I’m always happy to see it return. Anyhow,Down the rabbit hole….

OK, it seems that while I was taking a break, I got tagged by SamuraiFrog with a quiz-thing. So here goes: INSTRUCTIONS: Remove the blog in the top spot from the following list and bump everyone up one place. Then add your blog to the bottom slot, like so. 1. Confessions of a Sophisticated Writer2. The Urban Recluse3. No Smoking in the Skull Cave4. Electronic Cerebrectomy5. Byzantium’s Shores: The Occasional Meditations of yada yada yada. (Not sure why we’re doing this. It sounds vaguely chain-letterish.) Next, select five people to tag. You know, I rarely tag people on these kindsDown the rabbit hole….

Zounds, I’ve been tagged by PZ Myers for the “Eight Things” quiz-meme thing. I could just link the answers I gave when someone else tagged me with this a couple of weeks ago with the fine phrase from Prime Minister’s Questions in Britain, “I refer the right honorable gentleman to the reply I gave some moments ago”, but hey, that’s the lazy way out and I’m all about…well, that’s not true, I have nothing against being lazy. But anyway, eight things: 1. The first baseball game (MLB) I attended in person? 1984, I think. Phillies 2, Pirates 1, at ThreeDown the rabbit hole….

Lynn tags me with a meme where I’m to reveal eight things about myself, or give eight facts about myself, or reveal eight habits, or something like that. After more than five years of blogging, coming up with new stuff that I actually want to reveal here is kind of hard. 1. Remember that episode of Seinfeld where Elaine dates the guy who zones out every time “Desperado” comes on the radio? I’m the same way with Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto and Enescu’s Romanian Rhapsody No. 1. 2. Musical instruments I feel like I should like, but which I really don’t:Down the rabbit hole….