What is your favorite word?
25: Asinine
26: Grace (as in that of a dancer)
27: Hubris
28: Affectation
29: Ridiculous
What is your least favorite word?
25: Dude.
26: Job.
27: Lastly
28: That
29: Experience
What turns you on?
25: Intelligent conversation.
26: Grace.
27: Simplicity
28: Coming home to the girl I love.
29: The Signature Move.
What turns you off?
25: Ignorance, and indifference to one’s own ignorance.
26: Bad and/or irrational arguments.
27: Low self-esteem with a dash of desperation
28: Incongruousness
29: Desperation
What sound do you love?
25: The ticking clock theme from 24.
26: Rain with a dash of distant thunder.
27: The ambiance of an afternoon game at Wrigley Field
28: Buzz’s stretch/wine/yawn noise.
29: The ceiling fan
What sound do you hate?
25: My dog, Scamp, barking at the raccoons at three in the morning.
26: Wire hangers scraping against the metal crossbeam in my mother’s fabric room.
27: The unwanted cheerleading of an inept weekend producer.
28: Any sound that signifies that your computer did not like what you just did.
29: The closet doors in our bedroom make the most awful grinding noise I’ve ever heard.
What profession, other than yours, would you like to attempt?
25: Chicago Cubs’ play-by-play man. I’d say starting pitcher, but who are we kidding?
26: Well, being that I’m unemployed, I can pick anything here. Dramatic television writer.
27: Sportscaster.
28: Screenwriter.
29: Screenwriter.
What profession, other than yours, would you not like to participate in?
25: Anything involving tips. Never again.
26: We’re gonna stick with last year’s on that one.
27: TV Reporter
28: Anything under a floundering coropration.
29: At this point, I can’t afford to be picky.
What is your favorite curse word?
25: Bullshit or horseshit. Any word involving animal excrement I find quite delightful.
26: Bollocks.
27: Fuck
28: Sonofabitch.
29: Bugger.
Finally, if heaven exists, what would you like God to say when you arrive at the pearly gates?
“I suppose I have some explaining to do.” Five years running.
