You know the drill. Answer each question. Show all work. No cheating off your neighbor.
1. You have to give up one medium for a year. Which one would be the hardest for you to live without?
2. What was your favorite toy as a child?
3. Who do you turn to first when you need advice?
4. What’s the most fun you can get into with a three day weekend and your regular paycheck?
5. What is your favorite Halloween candy?
6. What is the best song to listen to when you’re feeling depressed and want to be alone in your misery?
7. Is it better to know the answers or the right questions to ask?
8. What well-known person do people say you most resemble?
9. Do you believe your vote matters? Why or why not?
10. If something happened to you, and your family went through your personal belongings, what things would you be most embarrassed for them to find?
My answers:
1. The Internet. As much as I like television, I’ve gone without that for certain periods of time and managed ok. But when I can’t check email or surf the net or write on the blog, I’m miserable.
2. G.I. Joe. I had the original ones when they were 11 inches high. They used to say boys who played with dolls would grow up to be gay. That toy came after the fact.
3. My Mom. She’s still the wisest person I know.
4. Presuming I still want to have money left over to pay this month’s bills, I’ll do something in town. A play, dinner at a nice restaurant, some shopping. I could travel in three days, but that tends to leave me tired out at the end of the weekend.
5. A toss up between candy corn and Almond Joy. Sometimes you feel like a nut.
6. “Soon as I Get Home,” the Lizz Wright version, off her Salt CD.
7. I never know all the answers, although I can fake it well. But I think I ask good questions and learn more by doing so.
8. A few years ago, I was told I looked like O.J. Simpson. But now, I’ve been told I look like Al Roker . Go figure.
9. My vote definitely matters, and I’ve always believed that. The combination of many votes together, even in defeat, represents a point of view that those elected must take into consideration.
10. See #99 on my list of 100 Things About Me.
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Why you gotta give me work to do this early in the morning? I haven’t even had my oatmeal yet!!
Here goes…
1. Definitely the internet. I recently visited Michigan for a week. I was like a crack fiend in a new town. I ended up in the Surgery Family Waiting Room at a hospital pushing a grieving “almost widow” of the computer. She was looking up testicular cancer. That shit could wait! I had to check my email.
2. Lite Bright Life was so simple then.
3. My best friend Mark. He knows everything!
4. Regular paycheck? What the heck is that? That phrase doesn’t exist in the life of a freelancer.
5. Candy corn.
6. Where Will You Go by Babyface.
7. Questions, definitely.
8. Nobody ever says I look like anyone. Oh wait, I’ve heard Queen Latifah once or twice. I don’t see it.
9. I do believe my vote counts.
10. That’s easy. Victor, my trusty vibrator.
1. Books. The written word. I’ve only been an Internet junkie now for a few years, and given my last stint being sans Internetus, I can live without it.
2. Legos. No doubt.
3. I normally don’t like burdening people with my problems, so it’s very rare I turn to someone for advice. I try to come to the conclusion myself.
4. Hmm…if I’ve got pocket change left after paying bills, a caramel apple cider at Starbucks.
5. Twizzlers.
6. “Bachelorette” by Björk.
7. If you ask the right questions, you get the right answers.
8. I’ve heard Magic Johnson and the Notorious B.I.G. (none of which are very flattering, in my opinion).
9. Rock the vote!
10. Oh hell, that’s already happened. How do you think they knew I was gay? They stumbled across my journal and a worn-over Black Inches magazine.
I’m following the rules and not looking at anybody else’s answers.
1. The Internet (is that a medium?) because I use it for EVERYTHING. Email, music, writing, reviews, movies, reading, trade, research… I just would be a mess without it at this point.
2. Legos.
3. It depends on the situation. I surround myself with “experts” on different things
4. I once drove to Charlotte with two friends and had more fun in TWO days than most have on holiday. Mostly, sleeping, drinking, and “stuff”.
5. Sorry. I’m not big enough fan of Halloween candy to have a favorite.
6. “I Want to Be Free” by Ohio Players
7. I’m a big fan of truth so asking the right questions is paramount. Too many people ask “leading” questions when they could just ask for the information they really want to know.
8. Ugh. Michael Jordan, Malik Yoba. Whatever.
9. Yes, I believe my vote matters though, not as much as it should. I believe in our election system for the most part. Although there is trickery, minorities do a better job disenfranchising themselves by not exercising the right to vote. Just one election, I wish I could convince all of The Blacks to vote to see the impact it would have.
10. I am blessed to have a family who knows me pretty well and are, for the most part, non-judgmental. I wouldn’t be embarrassed by anything they would find.
Ooh great. Everybody else used the Internet as a medium, too. And I thought I was the only one who would list Legos.
1. The Internet! It’s a daily must have for me.
2. The Rubic Cube. I haven’t solved it yet. I got tired of peeling off the stickers…(lol)
3. GOD.. (my inner voice, and prayer)
4. Buying some new tech gadgets, music, get a new magazine or book, and something from Starbucks.
5. Candy Corn
6. Lizz Wright’s “Open Your Eye’s, You Can Fly”
7. To know the RIGHT question to ask….
8. A younger Shirley Hemphill (R.I.P.), from What’s Happening…
9. Yeah… VOTE!!!!
10. The amount of video systems and games I own. I’m still a big kid. Hey… it’s a stress reliever!
1. I would give up TV or perhaps radio. They both suck right now. But I needs me some internet.
2. HOT WHEELS!
3. Kevin.daily
4. Club, bar, shopping. Typical teenage stuff.
5. Anything with nuts!
6. Anything by Faith Evans. She has been writing the story of my life for I don’t know how long.
7. For me, yes.
8. Will Smith.
9. Well, it does, because when stuff goes wrong, I’ll know whether or not I contributed to it.
10. Probably nothing, oh, except that, ahem, accessory that practically free-bases AA batteries.
Since I was retarded on #7, I’d like to change my answer:
It’s better to find out what you can without asking first so when you actually do ask, people get the idea that you generally know what you’re talking about even if you really don’t.
Did that make sense?
LOL @ nOva!
1. my coach bags
2. my magic curl barbie (she was black)
3. my mother
4. shopping or movie or a quick weekend getaway (8 hour drive)
5. nestle crunch
6. keep your head up - tupac
7. the right questions to ask
8. lisa raye
9. yes, every vote counts
10. naked pics of me
these are some good questions, have a good weekend bernie and happy halloween
Uh…Lashundra honey. You wanna take another look at Question 1. Yo answer don’t quite match up.
But dat’s ok, baby. And where dem nekkid pictures? Dey on yo website?
1. The internet would be a tragedy for me- both at work and at home.
2. Spyrograph. Hands down. Second place? Telescope.
3. My partner, Mike.
4. Travelling to another city and having a great time. That’s almost essential each month.
5. Candy corn
6. “Troubled Mind” by Everything But The Girl.
7. The right questions to ask, definitely. Hands down.
8. Hmmm…Michael Bivins. That’s been quite a while ago, though.
9. Yes. All votes matter.
10. My porn collection.
*raising eyebrows at Lashundra’s naked Lisaraye look-a-like pics*
bernie i meant what i said on #1 that’s my medium coach *lol* the naked pics how much money you got? *lol* i’m keepin them on the dl for now.
1. at this point.. the internet…. it used to be tv for the sports.. but hell, I can look them up on line and catch the gamecast too… hahahaha.
2. my electric train set… even though the tracks only went in a circle, I used to like setting it up for other route.
3. big brother Shim of course
4. Shopping in Beverly Hills, ice cream in Berkeley with “the Bay Area” peeps, a meal at Merritt Diner in Oakland (you know, by the lake) and back… ok, so I’ll be tired as hell.. I’ll sleep on the plane.
5.those jellie candies… cavity causers for sure.
6. Jazzyfatnastees “Let It Go”
7. The right questions can get you very different perspectives from different people.
8. Uhhh… I forget who they say…
9. yeah my vote matters… someone can win or lose by one (we all remember class elections)
10. those naked pictures of Bernie Tarver, greased up, hanging on a trapeze holding a stuffed monkey… hahahah… just wanted to see if you were really paying attention….uhh, I don’t care what they find, it’s my life. If they’re embarrassed, that’s their emotions.
HELP ME IM EMBARESSED COZ I AINT STARTED MY PERIOD??