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pensylvania_joe did the five questions thing this time.
"Wipe that smug look off your face!"
Okay, but that's not a question.
1. What drug are you most often accused of being on?
That's a tie. Speed and pot. The irony being I don't do any drugs. (I'm not opposed to *some* of them, in moderation, but they're just not my thing.)
2. How did you propose to Sarah?
I didn't. I proposed to Sara. >;P
Y'see, I had the ring in my pocket for about three or four days, waiting for "The Right Moment." I had decided that I wasn't going to create some elaborate set-up, it just didn't feel like the thing to do. So we were in That's Rentertainment, looking for a movie. And over by the French VHS section, when she was getting dejected that she didn't know what to watch, I dropped to one knee.
When I got married, one block away, I made a quick pilgramage an hour before the ceremony. Geoff (the owner) says it's the ony proposal that *he* knows about in his store.
3. Who was it that first got you into non-American cuisine?
3) My mama. This is the woman who used to order five or six dishes from Chinese restaurants and we'd share them all. I tried shark when I was about...what, ten, maybe, when I was with her in Bermuda. And she had us eat hot food, stuff that, to quote her, "tastes so good when it stops hurting." Oh, yeah, and she cooked us octopus.
That's not to say that she totally digs Korean food, or Thai food, or weird-ass authentic Mexican drinks from EL DESMADRE that are like hot cocoa, but made with corn. She just pointed to about 27 paths that I might not have found on my own. So, next time I stink of spicy squid or too much sushi, you can thank/blame her.
4. What are your thoughts on the afterlife, and what do you think will happen to you?
Shit, you don't half ask 'em, eh?
*sigh*
I stopped being a "Christian" a while back. I just couldn't buy into the hate anymore, or the contradictions. I have a hard time with so many religions, mostly because they all seem to demand that they're right, even though none of them can prove *shit*.
I'm not an atheist, and I'm several steps above agnostic.
I believe in *something*, just can't really define what. Maybe it's a God, maybe a whole pantheon, maybe it's just the psychic manifestation of the dreams and hopes of all the people of the planet. But, in my gnostic way, I know I've felt it.
So that little shriney-thing in my office? The one where I light joss sticks in front of a little Buddha; a small giant robot; a Swamp-Thing Heroclix; an ad for a Hong Kong film; a small Chinese "good fortune pig" meant for putting your business cards in to bring wealth but I put a piece of paper with "Written by benjamin sTone" in it, with a Pilot Precise pen; a small Gargoyle my dear friend Kate gave me; a big picture of Sara, and several more things? That's for whatever works at the moment. But no matter what it is at that moment, it works for me, cause I feel it.
Afterlife? I'll tell you later. ;)
5. Is it more important to DO good things or to INTEND to do good things?
To do. But to intend is a step in the right direction...you just can't stop walking. Too many people do.
pensylvania_joe did the five questions thing this time."Wipe that smug look off your face!"
Okay, but that's not a question.
1. What drug are you most often accused of being on?
That's a tie. Speed and pot. The irony being I don't do any drugs. (I'm not opposed to *some* of them, in moderation, but they're just not my thing.)
2. How did you propose to Sarah?
I didn't. I proposed to Sara. >;P
Y'see, I had the ring in my pocket for about three or four days, waiting for "The Right Moment." I had decided that I wasn't going to create some elaborate set-up, it just didn't feel like the thing to do. So we were in That's Rentertainment, looking for a movie. And over by the French VHS section, when she was getting dejected that she didn't know what to watch, I dropped to one knee.
When I got married, one block away, I made a quick pilgramage an hour before the ceremony. Geoff (the owner) says it's the ony proposal that *he* knows about in his store.
3. Who was it that first got you into non-American cuisine?
3) My mama. This is the woman who used to order five or six dishes from Chinese restaurants and we'd share them all. I tried shark when I was about...what, ten, maybe, when I was with her in Bermuda. And she had us eat hot food, stuff that, to quote her, "tastes so good when it stops hurting." Oh, yeah, and she cooked us octopus.
That's not to say that she totally digs Korean food, or Thai food, or weird-ass authentic Mexican drinks from EL DESMADRE that are like hot cocoa, but made with corn. She just pointed to about 27 paths that I might not have found on my own. So, next time I stink of spicy squid or too much sushi, you can thank/blame her.
4. What are your thoughts on the afterlife, and what do you think will happen to you?
Shit, you don't half ask 'em, eh?
*sigh*
I stopped being a "Christian" a while back. I just couldn't buy into the hate anymore, or the contradictions. I have a hard time with so many religions, mostly because they all seem to demand that they're right, even though none of them can prove *shit*.
I'm not an atheist, and I'm several steps above agnostic.
I believe in *something*, just can't really define what. Maybe it's a God, maybe a whole pantheon, maybe it's just the psychic manifestation of the dreams and hopes of all the people of the planet. But, in my gnostic way, I know I've felt it.
So that little shriney-thing in my office? The one where I light joss sticks in front of a little Buddha; a small giant robot; a Swamp-Thing Heroclix; an ad for a Hong Kong film; a small Chinese "good fortune pig" meant for putting your business cards in to bring wealth but I put a piece of paper with "Written by benjamin sTone" in it, with a Pilot Precise pen; a small Gargoyle my dear friend Kate gave me; a big picture of Sara, and several more things? That's for whatever works at the moment. But no matter what it is at that moment, it works for me, cause I feel it.
Afterlife? I'll tell you later. ;)
5. Is it more important to DO good things or to INTEND to do good things?
To do. But to intend is a step in the right direction...you just can't stop walking. Too many people do.
