Five Questions Before Dino Goes to Vegas
A lot of puzzles present themselves to me every week. Why does my son only color with the red crayon? Why does my daughter rub peanut butter in her hair? Why do I keep forgetting which week is recycling week? The following questions should be easier to answer. They were carefully culled from some of the best of the internet’s “memes,” and I found them intriguing and interesting. Bonus points if you can answer any of my personal puzzles.
- If you were able to live to the age of 90 and retain either the body or the mind of a 30-year-old for the last 60 years of your life, which would you want?
- What is the worst psychological torture you can imagine suffering? (it cannot involve any physical harm to you)?
- Given the choice of anyone in the world, who would you want as your dinner guest? As a close friend? As a lover?
- What, in your opinion, is the worst song ever?
- Who is your favorite comedian?
timothyp said:
1. Definitely the body (can I have someone else’s though?). My mind has changed on how I see the world around me since my 50th birthday, a couple of years past. I would never have wanted to miss that time.
2. Sleep deprivation. I had to stay awake for 4 days once (college experiment) and I absolutely hated it! The hallucinations were cool though.
3a. Dinner guest (I take it that you mean only one person) would have to be …. Bobby Flay… imagine what I could learn from him just by sharing a meal.
3b. Close friend would be … Bill Gates. I admire what he has done with his career but mostly because of his philantrophy (sic sorry, just woke up). Plus it would be nice to see someone else pick up a tab now and then.
3c. Lover … it would have to be someone I both admire for appearance and mind… I’ll choose Danica McKellar.
4. Oh, so many!
Lights by Journey …”When the lights go down in the citaaaaay….” I cringe when I hear that song.Especially that line…argggghhhh.
Imagine by John Lennon covered by Perfect Circle
Who Let the Dogs Out
but the worst song of all time to me…
The Macarena.
5. Nothing makes me laugh harder than kicking my feet up and watching any live Richard Pryor.
September 19th, 2008 at 9:55 am #
Theresa Stevens said:
1) Body. I seem to get wiser with age and wouldn’t give that up for anything in the world!
2) Watching something bad happen to my daughter. My ex-uncle saw his 10yr old boy get hit by a train. He’s never been the same…
3) Dinner guest would be the Blue Power Ranger because Olivia would LOVE that…and how can they eat with the helmet on? Close friend would be Lisa Kudrow because she’s so unbelievably funny! Lover would be Vin Diesel…oh the things I could do to that man!
4) Any song by the Wiggles!
5) Favorite comedian? I don’t have one. They’re all pretty hilarious in my eyes!
September 19th, 2008 at 12:36 pm #
Dino Corvino said:
I am sitting in a Suite at the Sahara, in Vegas, I cannot be bothered with this right now. Talk to you on Tuesday.
You can follow me on twitter though….twitter.com/citizendino
September 19th, 2008 at 9:58 pm #
oldwoodchair said:
I am powerless to resist the questions…heaven help me.
1. My mom is 86 years old with dementia. Her body functions are fine…healthy heart, lungs, liver, kidneys….everything’s pumping life. But the mind is somewhere that we can’t follow. I’ll take the 30 year old mind. Einstien said that he just uses his body to carry his brain around. I’m with him. Give me wrinkles & saggy boobs & achy joints, but keep my mind alive and active so that I can think and feel and live until the day I die.
2. The suffering of those we love, or of those weaker than us. Being a person of action to solve problems and ease hurt, it is intolerable for me to hear of cruelties and abuse and suffering and horrible treatment of other living things and not be able to ease the pain for them (and selfishly to avenge the wrong). My mind goes a little insane when I hear of mistreatment of a child. That is my idea of torture…and of hell.
3. (a) I have no personal fantasies that are unfulfilled. My dinner guest/s would by any one of my family…they are sooooo cool and funny and smart and insane. The only other person would be to have dinner one more time with my Dad (who’se been gone for 4 years now)…so I could tell him again how much he gave to my life. (b) my fantasy close friend IS my best friend Sandy…been together sharing secrets & inside jokes since we were kids…she cannot be replaced by anyone from fame or history. She’s the one that would help me hide the body. (c) Okay, don’t gag, but, yeah, my husband is my fantasy lover…always has been, always will be….34 years and just getting more interesting.
4. Totally clueless on this one….as I’ve admitted before, I’m a musical retard.
5. The person who cracks me up the most in life is my oldest son…he does this dog thing that makes my eyes water. But if I had to pick an actual famous jokester, I’d have to say Sam Kinison…he’s dead now, but, man, he did some bits that I’ll never forget.
Bonus points: Cheryl, I think your son chooses red because he is an extrovert and feels strongly about whatever he is drawing….power color…he’s obviously confident, creative, and feels control over his domain even at his young age…natural born leader….maybe future presidential candidate. Your daughter is obviously very tactile…artistic…will probably sculpt someday…she “feels” her environment…sensitive and intuitive. She will be a healer of some kind through her art. And you forget when your recycling day is because you are too busy raising a future president and artist to bother with mundane tasks like plastic-pick-up-day.
September 19th, 2008 at 10:26 pm #
oldwoodchair said:
Ok…why is Dino in Vegas & why do I never get to go to Vegas?
September 19th, 2008 at 10:30 pm #
Dino Corvino said:
I am taking part in BlogWorld Expo, which includes Citizen Journalism panels.
September 19th, 2008 at 10:58 pm #
oldwoodchair said:
OK…next time, I should be your chaparone…you can get in some great, interesting trouble in Vegas.
September 19th, 2008 at 11:11 pm #
oldwoodchair said:
By the way, Dino…did you notice I tend to have the longest feedbacks to these posts? Does that mean I’m long-winded?
September 19th, 2008 at 11:13 pm #
Dino Corvino said:
So, I am sitting in the new media lounge at BlogWorld Expo 08, honestly my feet hurt, my lilver hurts, and I am sure my kidneys are processing on overdrive. I am sore. I got out of the blog world party at 11, and then went looking for trouble. Sorry bloggers, I am a Wisco boy, we party hard.
It is 1 pm, have not eaten yet, waiting for Imperial Palace at Oyster Bar.
So I answer.
1.The body. I think I feel more connected to joy in my body than in my mind I think.
2. Seeing my brother in pain.
3. Dinner….I do not know. Thomas Wolfe? Close Friend…Chad Muska. Lover…The woman from The Heartless Bastards
4. That Girlfriend song by Avrigl Lavinge.
5. Randy Kagan
September 21st, 2008 at 2:23 pm #
cupcake said:
1. Don’t make me choose, as I have had personal experience with both tragedies. My mother suffered from early onset Alzheimer’s and we took care of her in my home until she died. Her body was perfectly healthy, so she lived much longer than most, in a fetal position in a bed.
But now my father, who is as sharp as anyone at 84, is legally blind, in a wheelchair; so what is enjoyable in life? Doesn’t want to go to a restaurant because he can’t see the menu, or the food. Can’t travel to see his sons or friends. And as I wheel him endlessly from one doctor appt to another, I could not bear to be in such a place. As my brother once said, the only thing worse than dying young is dying old.
2.Torture? Anything with my children, even though they are grown, or any child.
3. Dinner Guest - David Feherty - he’s a golf commentator - sounds boring? But he’s got a beautiful scottish accent along with a great sense of humor, makes golf on Sunday afternoons fun to watch.
Close Friends - any of my many friends from Oklahoma that I do not get to see often enough.
Lover - Ramone, my imaginary pool guy, for my imaginary pool.
4. Either “Muscrat Love” or “Afternoon Delight”
5. I love ‘em all because I love to laugh. I find “The Office” hilarious but my husband just doesn’t get it!
September 21st, 2008 at 3:13 pm #
Jane Neal said:
1. “I hope I die before I get old.”
2. “Sophie’s Choice”
3. I’d love to have dinner with Jon Stewart. Or John Lennon. (you didn’t say they had to be alive.) I love the friends I have now, but I still miss my Texas friends. I don’t fantasize and tell.
4. “Sweet Home, Alabama,” “Afternoon Delight,” “No Tell Lover” (chicago)
5. Lately, I love Demetri Martin. He has an odd way of looking at the world and words that just cracks me up.
September 23rd, 2008 at 8:43 am #
Dino Corvino said:
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October 1st, 2008 at 2:25 pm #