Never Meme Flowers

Via.

1. What's your favorite Dr. Seuss book?
The Lorax. It always got to me when I was a kid, how sad the Lorax was with all of the trees pulled up and destroyed.

2. If you could live in any home on a television series, what would it be?
I love the house from Hannah Montana. It's right there on the beach, which is still kind of a dream of mine.

3. What's the longest you've gone without sleep?
About 32 hours, I think.

4. What's your favorite Barry Manilow song?
I'm not a big fan of his, but I LOVE "Mandy." I've got a heart made of cheese.

5. Who's your favorite Muppet?
Rowlf!

6. What's the habit you're proudest of breaking?
I don't know that I'm openly proud of breaking any habits. I quit smoking ten or so years ago, but I'm not proud of it, it was just something I did: stopped smoking.

7. What's your favorite website?
You're lookin' at it, baby.

8. What's your favorite school supply?
Notebooks. Endless possibilities in there. I would be lost without notebooks. (And I mean old-fashioned, 100-sheet, wire-ring, college-ruled, paper notebooks, not some kind of laptop.)

9. Who's your favorite TV attorney?
Dan Fielding, of course.

10. What was your most recent trip of more than 50 miles?
I can't remember the last time I drove that far, honestly.

11. What's the best bargain you've ever found at a garage sale or junk shop?
I got a bookcase once for 50 cents. It was incredibly cheap, but it lasted longer than I thought it would.

12. Where were you on September 11, 2001?
In my bedroom, watching it happen live on television. I was still living at home; Becca was on her way over before work, and had heard something about it on the radio. That was a very scary morning; we watched the second plane hit live, and then there were reports about the Pentagon and United 93. A very irrational part of me wondered if this was Red Dawn happening for real.

13. What's your favorite tree?
Treebeard.

14. What's the most interesting biography you've read?
I don't know if this sounds stupid now, but Drew Barrymore's autobiography Little Girl Lost made a big impression on me when I was in high school. It showed me how easy it is to lose track of yourself and become something you never wanted to be. Kept me from making a couple of poor decisions.

15. What do you order when you eat Chinese food?
Crabmeat rangoons and white rice.

16. What's the best costume you've ever worn?
One I made myself: Harry Jarvis. Harry Jarvis is a space adventurer I used to write short stories about in high school. He wore a vinyl jacket and an outback hat, mostly because I had those things and thought they'd work as a costume. I outfitted it with laser pistols (from LazerTag, of course), a satchel, and some other little things.

17. What's your least favorite word?
It's not a real word, but I hate commercials for the product Beano. What a fucking irritating word.

18. If you had to be named after one of the 50 states, which would it be?
Well, none of them. None of them are good names (except Virginia, and that's not a man's name).

19. Who's your favorite bear?
Billy Bob Brockali.

20. Describe something that's happened to you for which you have no explanation.
I know I've talked about this before, but there was that time in high school when I had a premonition of death. Sitting in study hall, middle of the day, and a sudden, tingling warmth hit my nose hard and washed over half of my head and then down my neck and spine. I couldn't explain it; I wasn't doing anything (although I was reading a Michael Crichton novel, so draw your own conclusions on what that could have done to my brain). I knew then and there that someone had died. When I told my Mom, she told me I was acting crazy, but it turned out my Great Aunt Bonnie had died in the middle of the day after taking a fall. Weirder still: I had never met her in my life.

21. If you could travel anywhere in Africa, where would it be?
Egypt. I want to see the Pyramids and the Valley of the Kings.

22. What did you have for lunch yesterday?
Fast food, and it was a massive mistake. Spent a great deal of time in the bathroom yesterday.

23. Where do you go for advice?
My wife and my parents.

24. Which do you use more often, the dictionary or the thesaurus?
I use both of them fairly regularly. The thesaurus is handy when writing Godzilla Haiku.

25. Have you ever been snorkeling? Scuba diving?
Scuba diving, no, but I have been snorkeling on Guam.