fragment 354
by kvennarad
© Marie Marshall.
Okay, the first five people to land here today may, by virtue of getting here, consider themselves my top five commenters. Angélique Jamail just declared me one of hers, so what you can do is simply transpose the 12 questions to here (making q.9 relevant to this blog, and don’t worry about ‘Fashion Friday’ in q.6) and drop your answers below. And all visit each other’s blogs. Job done.
The rest of you can answer the questions too, if you like. I’m an easy-going kind of gal.
Kvenna ráð 
🙂 how nice 🙂
1. What was the first food you ever learned how to make? – soup from a tin when I was 18
2. What’s your favorite movie, and why? – The English patient, for the adventure and romance
3. Do you own a melon baller? – I don’t think so? Should I?
4. DC or Marvel or indie? – ? wazzat?
5. If you had the time to be a novelist, would you want to be?- I am one
6. What’s your favorite fashion accessory? – I am not into fashion much Would you be interested in sharing it with us on a Fashion Friday post? – sure. Jeans?
7. What is the best book you’ve ever read that you really didn’t enjoy while you were reading it? – Kafka, the Proces
8. What are you listening to today? – my stomach
9. Do you remember when and how you first discovered this blog? Will you please tell us the story? – I think I was intrigued by your avatar? And then by the poems, that seem mysterious and different and inspiring
10. What do you want to be when you grow up? – A novelist that is not too shy to read in public…
11. What’s your preferred variety of Munchkin card? – ??
12. Complete this lyric: “If I had $1,000,000, I would buy you…” – a house or a very expensive cat, a bouquet of roses and a nice purple hat 🙂
Thank you, Ina. By Kafka’s ‘Proces’, I take it you mean the novella that we know as ‘The Trial’?
TheTrial it is! (I read it in Dutch)
1. What was the first food you ever learned how to make? –popcorn in a frying pan with oil.
2. What’s your favorite movie, and why? – The Princess Bride – The characters and dialogue are so memorable. I can almost quote the entire movie
3. Do you own a melon baller? – Yes, as a matter of fact I do. Uh, why?
4. DC or Marvel or indie? – Marvel – I’m irrationally in love with Rogue.
5. If you had the time to be a novelist, would you want to be?- I am one, as time permits.
6. What’s your favorite fashion accessory? – Sunglasses with lenses made of real glass.
7. What is the best book you’ve ever read that you really didn’t enjoy while you were reading it? – The History of California
8. What are you listening to today? – David Gilmour and Sharon van Etten
9. Do you remember when and how you first discovered this blog? Will you please tell us the story? – I discovered Mari Sanchez Cayuso’s blog and i was captivated by it. She gave you high praise in one of her posts so I visited you and followed instantly.
10. What do you want to be when you grow up? – assuming that will ever happen, I’d like to be a maker of fine guitars and/or a novelist.
11. What’s your preferred variety of Munchkin card? – I’ve never had the pleasure of that game
12. Complete this lyric: “If I had $1,000,000, I would buy you…” the means to live your dreams.
Funny how everyone here’s a novelist! 😀
Numero 3! BTW – I love this little poem. Speaks to my heart, ya know.
Nice to know. I award you a special burrito.
1. What was the first food you ever learned how to make? – Scrambled eggs and fried bacon – I was 4 and stood on a step-stool. My grandmother allowed it and supervised – my mother was not told until MUCH later.
2. What’s your favorite movie, and why? Dune (the original with Sting). The cast and the ending where the little girl declares her brother the Kwisatz Haderat. Also, I loved the big black brain that traveled and told the Emperor “I was not here. You did not see me.”
3. Do you own a melon baller? 2
4. DC or Marvel or indie? All best left to my 40 yr old son.
5. If you had the time to be a novelist, would you want to be? Nope… I only aspire to being a poet, which I am.
6. What’s your favorite fashion accessory? Watches
7. What is the best book you’ve ever read that you really didn’t enjoy while you were reading it? uck… Lord of the Flies
8. What are you listening to today? re-runs of tv shows about supernatural occurrences of various types. Ghosts caught on tape all the way to The Greys kidnapped me and did stuff to me.
9. Do you remember when and how you first discovered this blog? Will you please tell us the story? Well, I’ve known you about a million years and was missing in action for the last 5 or so for unavoidable reasons. When I got back to reality (and you), you invited me to look over your blog. Then I got a blog. And now, I look at your blog every single day and make comments that run from cogent to comical. And you follow my blog and make lovely comments that are very helpful.
10. What do you want to be when you grow up? Must I? If so, it is on my bucket list to publish a book of poetry (not vanity press or POD).
11. What’s your preferred variety of Munchkin card? what is that? I liked the Mayor of Munchkinland if that counts.
12. Complete this lyric: “If I had $1,000,000, I would buy you…” A first-class ticket to Houston and a week in a 5 star hotel. Meals, entertainment and tips included. We could visit, go dancing, and generally roll around laughing like kids.
You could buy a share in the ruddy hotel for that.
How still
The lashes of your eyes
Searching words
How still
It took me years of practice to master that.
Blink, and the voices change….
dear miss mad libs. i still make P,B and J while watching Thunderheart and my mouth goes dry when the medicine man punctuates visionary talk with belly laughs about Mr. McGoo, but i have no Melon Baller to generate lubrication so I head outside and try to remember Spiderman the Marvel and then of course dream of casting my own webs from a Dangling Talisman around my neck. It sure beats Reading because no matter what any literary snob says, it’s always easier for me anyway to simply switch the on button of a tv or let the carousel of an mp3 player roll like today right now listening to War’s City Country City. Makes everything seem “isn’t it always supposed to be this way?”.
that’s when destiny seems strange like a 3-headed, 6-armed deity or something. i like that kind of monster because it Never Provides Any Answers why i came to this blog other than click and click.
all i know for sure is that i plan on staying which is all i ever wanted to do when was a Kid…to just stick around until the wind knocked me over and even then i wouldn’t feel like a Munchkin. maybe an oompah loompah who likes to sing with other people and throw 1 million 1 dollar bills from the tops of big buildings and watch all the cars stop and doors open and the world transition into a lionel richie video.
your fan, steve
Now, that’s got to be worth a prize, and I don’t mean ‘catch it and you keep it’.
i throw everything back except baseball cards and tobacco. hard to kick them habits