Snagged from the Bishometer,

– Post a list of 10 books/movies/TV shows that you’ve had a fannish love of at some time in your life.
– Have your friends guess your favorite character from each one.
– You can cross out the show/movie/book and put the character when someone guesses.

1) Ren & Stimpy Muddy Mudskipper [Yeah B-Dogg!]
2) Corner Gas Oscar [Score 2 for B-Dogg ... jackass! :P ]
3) The IT Crowd
4) Star Trek: The Original Series It’s a tie between Spock and McCoy [1/2 point each for Darque B and the Phantom Phlapjack]
5) Mystery Science Theatre 3000 Crow [1 point for Phantom Phlapjack]
6) Mr. Show with Bob & David
7) X-Files
8) NCIS
9) CSI Grissom [1 point for Darque B]
10) Alias

I’ve tried to keep these more recent (or famous) so it would be easier to guess.

First off, I’d like to give a warm round of applause to the B-Dogg blog for having a consistently interesting site. It’s a little hard to follow sometimes, but I’m sure that’s only because I’m skipping around, and reading things out of order.

And because I’m so fond of it, I’m borrowing stealing ripping off “reprinting without permission” a list of questions that her fellow blogmates have come with for her. I have made adjustments when necessary, because, well, for example, I’m not married to DH.

So, without further delay:

What are your favorite baby names?
Once upon a time I wanted Madelyn and Dave. But then I thought Hayes and Addison would be good too. But now I don’t think we’ll ever have more than one, so I’m all for Addison. Or Fishmonger. (I’m tired of all the “occupational names,” like Hunter and Fisher and Tanner. So I thought, hey, the lady who sells fish: a Fishmonger, would be a great one. And definitely original.) ScotStaci want to have a child named “Carthy,” So that the kid will be Carthy Danger McCormick, the opposite of “Cormac McCarthy,” who is a famous writer. That, of course, and, like Austin Powers, Danger will be his middle name. Ugh. Whatever the name of our kid will be, it will NOT end in an “AID-EN” sound. There are enough of those on Jinny’s side already.

If you could have a threesome with any two cast members from Alias, whom would you choose?
Well, I think Sydney and Nadia would be pretty hot. (Would that be a Bristow sandwich?) But then I thought maybe Lauren Reed and Rachel Gibson would be pretty interesting too. And then there is always the exciting cat-fight action of Sydney and Anna… And would the good and bad Francie count as two people?

What’s the most embarassing book you’ve read?
Jinny just brought home “Color Me Beautful” from a garage sale. I read enough of it to remember that I’m a Winter, then put it down, quickly, before anyone noticed… that I had already read the book years ago when my mother had a copy.

What is your middle name?
Ryan. No particular reason, so far as I know.

What was the name of your first pet?
The first pet I ever had was a miniature schnauzer named “Tammy” that was stolen some time in the 4th grade. Very upsetting.

What is your favorite season?
In Texas, I’d go with Winter. Anywhere else, Spring.

Where did you grow up (what part of the country)?
I’m a native Michigander, born and raised… until I was 8. Then my father sold his snowblower, and we moved to Houston. It only took me 11 years to leave, and then come back, and leave again, and then come back– Houston is like Gilligan’s Island… it doesn’t matter how much you try to leave, there’s always some damn reason you wind up back here. Oh, that and it’s full of Professors, Mary-Anns, Gingers, and of course, plenty of Skippers.

When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?
An adult. And, hey, look, I got my wish! Now of course, I want to be a kid again.

What are your hobbies?
Reading, traveling, blogging, downloading TV (so I don’t have to watch commercials), and of course, sitting on the toilet until my legs fall asleep. (no, not really.)

What’s your favorite place to shop for shoes?
At a shoe store, of course, silly!

What’s your favorite activity to do with [your spouse] that isn’t sex?
We are best friends, really, so we do best friend stuff. Talking. Drinking Coffee. Going out to eat. Making fun of things. Talking about thinking about having a little Fishmonger.

Who’s your favorite iconic figure and why?
I think the :P smiley has to be my favorite iconic figure.

You know, I’m really Libertarian. Which means, of course, that I only eat library books.

Piff has been diagnosed with a disorder called A1-AtD. Well, that’s short for something, of course, but wasn’t A1-AtD the prototype droid unit in Star Wars? Or, wait; maybe that was OICU-812…

What happened to old school names for diseases? Like “Ronstadt’s Disorder/Disease/Syndrome” or, even better, the colloquial old-timer names, like “the clap” or “consumption.” Let’s get rid of these long, freaky, unpronounceable names, while we are at it. And Chlamydia? Is there some vulva-based joke there that we weren’t supposed to get? And then there’s Herpes Simplex B. What happens if you live in Herpes Duplex C?

While we are on the subject, how about: no more acronyms. AIDS and HIV are okay—I figure everyone knows those now, but—whoa! AKA? I thought that meant “also known as.” Well, apparently, AKA is a.k.a. “Above Knee Amputation” in the medical community. And, if you’re “BI,” it doesn’t mean “AC/DC”; it means your brain is injured. Which some people may are argue is the same thing, but that’s a discussion for another time.

But back to what I was talking about…

A1-AtD sounds like the runner up for a steak sauce. Still, it’s better than what my mother had, “thrombic thrombocytopenic purpura.” The initials, TTP, sound like an engine additive, and the full version of the name sounds like some odd, still-living part of a cow that you are about to turn into steak tartar. Maybe you put A1-AtD on it!

All you Doctor’s out there– can you PLEASE come up with decent names for these things which ail us?

I guess the first piece of big news for those of you who have tried to tune in and see “what’s goin’ on” (blech, I hate 4 Non Blondes) is that Jinny and I no longer frequent the local Denny’s so often.

Why, do you ask?
1) I downloaded all six seasons of CSI.
2) I started to try to get to sleep earlier.
3) I realized that the Denny’s coffee was not doing anything for my GERD.
4) I realized that late night milkshakes was not doing anything good for my weight, either.
5) We both realized that the reason we first went to Denny’s, (to talk amongst ourselves) was no longer possible because everyone knew us, and everytime you went there, WHAM! (why didn’t anyone realize George Michael was gay?) someone would sit down and try to chat it up.
6) Some of the waiters and waitresses and managers there had become somewhat annoying (No, not you, Garrett!) and there was no way to get away from them.

So we stopped going for a time. Most of that time corresponded to my absence on this blog.

So since our 6 month Denny’s boycott, quite a few things have changed.

1) Garrett now typically works 3 to 10, which means we can go to Denny’s earlier and still see him.
2) Most of the annoying waitstaff have left for other places.
3) Few people recognize us when we do come in, so we can actually talk amongst ourselves without being burdened by the “pop-in.”

So, we have gone to Denny’s a couple of times in the past few weeks. And, really it hasn’t been that bad… but I guarantee that the days of it being a daily ritual are over.

Stolen without a thought from BDogg McGee:

A is for age: 32
B is for beer of choice: I’ll stick with BDogg’s Dos XX with two limes
C is for career right now: Global IT Services Manager (Dude, we’ve gone GLOBAL!)
D is for dogs name: Moxie
E is for essential item you use everyday: Laptop
F is for favorite TV show at the moment: NCIS
G is for favorite game: Chinese Checkers
H is for Home town: Houston, really.
I is for instruments you play: Jaw harp and Kazoo
J is for favorite juice: Lemonade (no pulp, please!)
K is for who’s butt you want to kick: Take a number, or read my blog sometime
L is for last place you ate: On the floor, picnic style
M is for marriage: Yes 7 years and counting
N is for your full name: Sean Louis de Bougainville-McCormick
O is for overnight hospital stays: only right after birth, and to be with my mother before her demise
P is for people you were with today: Lemon Jinny and co-workers
Q is for quote: “Your face here” or “If You Lived Here You’d Be Home By Now”
R is for Biggest Regret: Still working on it
S is for status: US
T is for time you wake up: 7:00 am
U is for unique quality: I could tie a cherry stem in a knot with my tongue. Really, I could. Then I got laid, and it went away :(
V is for vegetable you love: I have grown to love Green Beans. It is scary.
W is for worst habit: Smoking Cigarettes
X is for x-rays you’ve had: hard to count, do teeth X-rays count?
Y is for yummy food you ate today: Egg McMuffin
Z is for Zodiac sign: Aquarium

It’s been ages since I wrote anything here. Sorry folks.

I think I must be mellowing with age, but I just kind of dried up of things to say.

Since then, of course, there have been a few things that got my goat, but I didn’t feel like they warranted writing it down.

So, just to be fair to the “Teaming Thousands” out there, I’ll try to backdate some posts and fill in major gaps.

First step ~ time for a new masthead.

As many of you know, I have a new phone. Right now it rings with the Red Cedar Place theme for everyone. But because I can mix it up, I’d like to put individual ringtones on for the different people that call. So I am taking suggestions for ringtones- either for you or for someone we both know. Some of you never call me, or call me so very rarely that this ringer may not be worth the time. But for contributing, I will create the 15 second mp3 ringtone anyway, and you can have it for your very own. I’ll have it available for download here on the blog in a few days.

My ideas so far:

BDogg – “Perfect Drug” by Nine Inch Nails
Bill S. – Something Star Wars…
Garrett – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Theme Song (he hates it)
Henry – “Hollaback Girl” by Gwen Stefani (maybe the B-A-N-A-N-A-S part?)
Jinny – “867-5309” by Tommy Tutone or, perhaps, “Hash Pipe” by Weezer
Travis – “Yellow Submarine” by The Beatles or “Putting On The Ritz” by Taco

Anyway, offer your suggestions… my only request – please – nothing that I would be horribly embarrassed to have start ringing in the middle of a supermarket.