Commentwhoring memes!

[saxikath]

Two memes, because it's that sort of day.

First, from stevie_stever:

Comment and I'll...

1. Tell you why I put you on my LJ friends page.
2. Associate you with something - fandom, a song, a color, a photo, etc.
3. Tell you something I like about you.
4. Tell you a memory I have of you.
5. Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.
6. Tell you my favorite user pic of yours.
7. In return, you might want to post this in your LJ.


And, from magickcat and zenala:

Ask me seven questions. Not just any seven questions though. No, to keep it interesting, use the seven questions as per below - just copy and paste the following, replace the blanks with something you want to know/ask (e.g. 3. Donkeys or sandcastles and why?), anything you want, personal, silly, surreal or deep, comment away and I'll answer honestly as I can! Then post this in your own LJ and see what kind of things people want to ask you!

1. What do you think of _____________ ?

2. When did you last ____________?

3. __________ or ___________ and why?

4. What did you ______________?

5. What's your favorite ______________?

6. How would you ______________?

7. Who would you most like to ________ ?

Comments

[jayfurr.livejournal.com]

1. What do you think of cumin ?

2. When did you last eat a whole jalapeno pepper?

3. Red chile or green chile and why (see the "state question" of New Mexico)?

4. What did you do last time you ventured west of the Pecos River?

5. What's your favorite Mexican or Tex-Mex food item?

6. How would you dress for a Lucha Libre wrestling match?

7. Who would you most like to take a cooking lesson from ?

[saxikath]

1. What do you think of cumin ?

I approve.

2. When did you last eat a whole jalapeno pepper?

Never.

3. Red chile or green chile and why (see the "state question" of New Mexico)?

In general, I prefer the taste of green chile.

4. What did you do last time you ventured west of the Pecos River?

Hang on, need a map to figure out what's actually west of the Pecos...

Well, Denver's west of part of the Pecos, so the last thing I did west of the Pecos was spend Christmas with my family.

5. What's your favorite Mexican or Tex-Mex food item?
The squash-blossom quesadilla I had at a little stand in Oaxaca a couple of years ago.

6. How would you dress for a Lucha Libre wrestling match?

Badly. :)

7. Who would you most like to take a cooking lesson from?

Alton Brown.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Ooh! Please do, for the first one.

I'll have to ponder the second.

[saxikath]

1. Because you're married to mabfan and you're fun to read.
2. Critiquing the music in the Harvard Square T stop. :)
3. You're incredibly creative.
4. First meeting you (at least I think it was the first time) at your engagement party, and marveling at your willingness to put up with us quoting G&S all over the place.
5. How'd you get started with knitting?
6. I like lots of yours, but just on general principles I have to go with this one:

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

3. You're incredibly creative.

::blushes::

5. How'd you get started with knitting?

Well, it's like this. When I was 9, my grandmother taught me to knit, but it didn't really take (I much preferred sewing, and I still do sew a lot). But in the summer of 2003, eal said to me, "I'm going to do NaNoWriMo, and I want you to do that with me." Writing a novel in a month when I had other time-consuming things going on was not a viable idea, and I told her so. Her response? "Well, I'm going to learn to knit in September, and maybe you'll do *that* with me?" That I could agree to. So I got a book (Stitch & Bitch, by Debbie Stoller) and some yarn and some needles, and, well, it really took this time.

[zenala.livejournal.com]

1. What do you think of butternut squash?

2. When did you last scratch your left ear?

3. MIT or Harvard and why?

4. What did you misplace the last time you moved?

5. What's your favorite coffee shop?

6. How would you survive the zombie apocalypse?

7. Who would you most like to have as a teammate on the Amazing Race?

[saxikath]

1. What do you think of butternut squash?

Yuck.

2. When did you last scratch your left ear?

Sometime this morning.

3. MIT or Harvard and why?

Depends on context. Where am I more likely to hang out now? MIT, because I know more people likely to hang out there. Where would I go to school? Harvard, because I'm too much more a historian than I am a scientist to be comfortable at MIT.

4. What did you misplace the last time you moved?

Geez, I don't remember, it's been almost ten years since I last moved.

5. What's your favorite coffee shop?

Tie between Diesel and L'Aroma, a little place across the street from my office.

6. How would you survive the zombie apocalypse?

I probably wouldn't. If I did, it'd be because of knowing the right kind of friends.

7. Who would you most like to have as a teammate on the Amazing Race?

Probably qaqaq.

[qaqaq.livejournal.com]

Ooh! Can we be an on-again, off-again, long-distance couple who go on the race to see whether or not they should really be together after all? One of us can be a former model or beauty queen, and the other can be a bartender who wants to break into show business; you can decide who gets to be who.

[meranthi.livejournal.com]

1. What do you think of California?

2. When did you last climb a mountain?

3. Boston or Boulder and why?

4. What did you last cook?

5. What's your favorite spice?

6. How would you travel around the world?

7. Who would you most like to have tea with?

(And meme 1, too. :)

[saxikath]

1. What do you think of California?

I'm very fond of parts of it. But they really should find their own water. :)

2. When did you last climb a mountain?

Um... er... man, it's been a long time. I've climbed plenty of hills, but no actual mountains.

3. Boston or Boulder and why?

Boston, but only because my life is here. If I could transplant my life to Colorado, I would.

4. What did you last cook?

Chicken, snow pea, onion, green pepper, and mushroom stir-fry.

5. What's your favorite spice?

Tough call. I like many spices. But for sheer versatility, ginger.

6. How would you travel around the world?

Via water and elegant railroads. :)

7. Who would you most like to have tea with?

Hmm. Tough to choose one. I'll say Madeline Albright.

And, the other meme:

1. Because we've been friends since you invited me to a cross-stitch party during or after Iolanthe.
2. The color green.
3. Your fabulous hair and your equally fabulous smile.
4. Being bratty kids together in the Secret Garden performance.
5. Do you like being a mom?
6. This one:

[meranthi.livejournal.com]

Yes, most of the time. When I'm stressed or PMSing, I don't have the cope to deal sometimes, which makes me feel really bad. But when they run and give me a hug and a kiss when I get home, or snuggle before work, it's totally worth it!

[magickcat.livejournal.com]

1. What do you think of spinach?

2. When did you last sing in a language besides English, and what was it?

3. Turkey or Chicken and why?

4. What did you always like as a child that you still like now?

5. What's your favorite way to make somebody smile?

6. How would you spend $50,000, barring anything like bills?

7. Who would you most like to see in a dance-off?

and sure, I'll go for the other meme. :)

[saxikath]

1. What do you think of spinach?

Yum!!

2. When did you last sing in a language besides English, and what was it?

Two weekends ago, at a LARP, and it was the Elvish song chmrr wrote.

3. Turkey or Chicken and why?

Chicken, generally; I prefer the flavor. Except on Thanksgiving, of course. :)

4. What did you always like as a child that you still like now?

Dancing around my living room when nobody's watching. :)

5. What's your favorite way to make somebody smile?

Do something they never expected.

6. How would you spend $50,000, barring anything like bills?

Put a down payment on a house.

7. Who would you most like to see in a dance-off?

Savion Glover and Gene Kelly.

And the other one:

1. 'Cause you were fun in Patience.
2. "Twenty lovesick maidens we..."
3. Your willingness to try things.
4. Giving you a vocal coaching in the very crowded MITG&S office.
5. Tell me more about your cats.
6. This one:

[magickcat.livejournal.com]

My cats are insane.
Missy is the oldest, born early September 2001, thereabouts.
Frankie we figure to share a birthday with me and he is very quiet meow-wise, but purrs quite loudly. He's going to be 6 in July, I think.
Whisper is the loudest of the bunch and was a doorstep kitten. I almost lost her last year and am glad to still have the little pain in the butt around. She's about 4 or 5.

[ambermoon.livejournal.com]

Put me down for the first one. I'll have to think a little more for the second (funny how many of the above seem to center around food).

[magickcat.livejournal.com]

Ha, I was totally thinking that, not having read the questions before asking mine- then I saw all the food questions and totally *facepalm*'ed. Teehee.

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

What do you think of acrostical enigmas?
When did you last trip and fall?
NYT or NYSun and why?
What did you want to do with your life when you were 14?
What's your favorite comic strip?
How would you like to go surfing?
Who would you most like to duel?

And sure, do the other one if you like. :)

[fizzixrat.livejournal.com]

1. What do you think of blue cheese?
2. When did you last delete something accidentally?
3. Dewey Decimal or Library of Congress and why?
4. What did you ever do with all those individually wrapped pennies that were given to you on that one (was it 16th?) birthday?
5. What's your favorite chemical element?
6. How would you travel to Mars, if a) the opportunity presented itself, b) money were no object, and c) you were limited to technology available today?
7. Who would you most like to shove into an open elevator shaft (other than me for asking a question like this, of course :D)?

[stevie-stever.livejournal.com]

PING! (just the first, as I'm out of ideas for the second) ;-)