1. Have you ever made an intoxicated fool of yourself?
Stories of my birthday party are sort of personal mythos, and my friend Eric is having a bachelor party this upcoming weekend, and I threw a few back with Robert Mentzer like a month ago, but I have a few stories that are not from my birthday that involve public drunkenness that sort of amaze even me.
2. Have you ever been punched in the face? Been in a slap fight? Had someone pull your hair out of anger? Have you ever been in a physical altercation? What did you think of it?
3. Do you have a favorite vegetable?
We are surrounded by amazing farmers markets, and I was wondering what you like.
4. Do you have a pre-bed ritual?
I have a hard time falling asleep, and I am told that ritualized pattern behavior prior to sleep is something that can help.
5. What do you do just for fun?
Recently I started visiting the VW lot. One of the guys who worked there who I do not like got canned, so I like to go and see the cars. I blame Andy Laub for this.
6. Do you like baseball?
I love love love baseball.
7. When you look in the mirror do you look like what you think you look like?
John H. Fischer
1:04 pm on May 1st
1. Not in some time, but in my younger “live for today cause tomorrow might not make it” days.. OH MY GOD… the stories I have… Drunk on Monterey Beach, Drunk in Duetzendeich Park in Nuremburg Germany, so many stories, however I should probably stop there in order to be able to maintain “plausible denyability”
2. Only 1 non-occuppationally related such incident. 1987, a sub-plot within the drunk on the beach in Monterey thing discussed in #1. In 1 Punch, after an insane amount of government training, I took out all of my anger from being bullied in all my years of school. In 1 Punch, I nearly killed him – have not punched any person in anger since.
3. Brocolli
4. I stay up to watch the 10 oclock news and weather, but normally fall asleep in my chair just before it comes on.. I wake up again around 11, coax the dog out.. then off to bed.
5. I – An extremely introverted and private person – share bits and pieces of myself in a few choice local online forums.
6. I LOVE the SPORT of baseball.. pro-ball – overpaid cry-babies… real baseball is high school and little league… and the ‘Chucks.. the chucks are real baseball.. players playing cause they love the game… THATS what the game is all about… you will find me a couple of rows behind home plate almost every single Chucks game.
7. Have you seen my picture? Avoiding mirrors has been a pretty good idea.
hpiguy
1:43 pm on May 1st
1. I have gotten too drunk on a few occasions. And yes, during a few of those few occasions, I have made a total ass out of myself. Fallng down, throwing up, picking a fight or something small or hitting on a dude I thought was a girl.
2. My late teens and early 20s found me very angry about a lot of things with no good way to vent it. I also had the typical young man trying to prove himself added on top. So I started fights, I didn’t shy away from fights that others started, and sometimes I joined in fights with people I didn’t even know. I won some, I had my butt handed to me some times and in the end, only a few were worth it (finding and beating down the guy that hit a female friend of mine was well worth it). Most did nothing for me as a person or for the other person aside from making me realize that fighting just isn’t worth my time in most cases. It’s painful, it’s bloody, you always seem to be in a nice shirt when they happen and even if you technically win, you lose.
3. I love cucumbers. Cold, cut up, salted. Superb. I buy as many as I can from the farmer’s market downtown and I always feel bummed if they go bad before I eat them.
4. The only ritual is that i’m usually in bed by 10:30 and that I don’t drink caffeine after 7pm.
5. For fun, I build stuff. I like putzing with stuff. Taking things apart, fixing them, then putting them back together and looking at them about 25 times during the day, just to look at what I built.
6. I like baseball. It’s fun. It’s summer. It makes me feel like the sun is shining even if it isn’t. I’ll listen to it on the radio (LOVE Bob Eucker’s voice) and I’ll go watch Woodchucks games. I can’t watch it on TV though. I’ll leave it on for the sound, but I won’t sit down and watch it.
7. I think I’m much fatter than I really am. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a fatty, but when I look in the mirror I always think “Boy, I’m not as big as I think I am.”
Andy Laub
1:48 pm on May 1st
1. No.
2. Yes. Yes. No. Yes. It was okay.
3. Broccoli is pretty neat.
4. Brush teeth. TiVo. iPhone Solitaire.
5. Window shop.
6. Eh.
7. Kind of?
Terry VanOrder
8:42 pm on May 4th
1. There was a bachelorette party many, many years ago that my best friend Sandy & I never, ever allow to be discussed or remembered. ‘Nuff said.
2. Nope. But have been in a few mental altercations. Those can be much more brutal than physical fights.
3. I think potatoes would have to be my favorite, though I’m a big fan of most veggies…especially those found at the Farmer’s Market! So, when does that open again???
4. I’m not a good sleeper, so I have a very involved bedtime ritual that involves trivia books, moisterizer, bedtime prayers, relaxation music, and mental sewing patterns. It’s very complicated, and it doesn’t always work. Sleeping is a little like death in my mind. Weird, huh?
5. I try really hard to make everything I do fun. It actually works a lot of the time.
6. Little League is the best.
7. Lately, my mom is in every mirror I look into. And I’m ok with that, because she has a kind face.
deepintheheart
9:48 am on May 5th
1) Why “Yes” I have. It could be my signature move. If you know me, you will agree.
2) I have had many, many physical altercations. That’s one of the reasons I keep my head shaved–no hair to pull. I think they remind me that I am alive. Not many of them make much sense, but that is the whole point of violence. It doesn’t have to make sense to be a sensory delight.
3) Cucumbers. Black-eyed peas. Squash.
4) Brush teeth. Wash face. Take some sleeping pills. Take off clothes.
5) Grow flowers and vegetables. Have car accidents.
6) Baseball has guided much of my daily life now that the season has commenced. Nothing like opening day at the Rangers ballpark sitting in the Diamond Club eating prime rib and drinking beer.
7) Lately kids and adults have told me that I look “mean” and “unapproachable.” So, yes I like what I see in the mirror. I do not have a poker face. It has been many years since my ears have heard “handsome.”
Mother’s Day!
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Mohawk Matt
10:42 am on May 5th
1. I have epic tales of drunken debauchery. Dino knows a couple,
2. “The Fight: What does it mean and where does it come from? An Essay: Homosapien. A man. He is alone in the universe. A punker. Still a man. He is alone in the universe, but he connects. How? They hit each other. No clearer way to evaluate whether or not you’re alive. Now. Complications. A reason to fight. Somebody different. Difference creates dispute. Dispute is a reason to fight. Now, to fight is a reason to feel pain. Life is pain. So to fight with reason is to be alive with reason. Final analysis: To fight, a reason to live. Problems and Contradictions: I am an anarchist. I believe that there should be no rules, only chaos. Fighting appears to be chaos. And when we slam in the pit a show it is. But when we fight for a reason, like rednecks, there’s a system, we fight for what we stand for, chaos. Fighting is a structure, fighting is to establish power, power is government and government is not anarchy. Government is war and war is fighting. The circle goes like this: our redneck skirmishes are cheap perversions of conventional warfare. War implies extreme government because wars are fought to enforce rules or ideals, even freedom. But other people ideals forced on someone else, even if it is something like freedom, is still a rule; not anarchy. This contradiction was becoming clear to me in the fall of ‘85. Even as early as my first party, “Why did I love to fight?” I framed it, but still, I don’t understand it. It goes against my beliefs as a true anarchist. But there it was. Competition, fighting, capitalism, government, THE SYSTEM. That’s what we did. It’s what we always did. Rednecks kicked the shit out of punks, punks kicked the shit out of mods, mods kicked the shit out of skinheads, skinheads took out the heavy metal guys, and the heavy metal guys beat the living shit out of new wavers and the new wavers did nothing. What was the point? Final summation? None. ”
3. Cucumbers, onions.
4. Have a cig, pass out.
5. I love to drink beer, play music and go to shows. It’s not about paying your dues if you do it out of love.
6. I’ve played ball since I can remember.
7. Question is, what does the mirror see when i’m in front of it?
swearingen
3:25 pm on May 10th
1. Only once. First time drinking. 7th grade. Face first down a flight of carpeted stairs. Cured me for a lifetime.
2. Only growing up with my brother practicing All_Star Wrestling moves…full Nelson, arm bar twist, eye gouge (and the ref suspects it), and into the turnbuckle.
3. Broccoli, corn on the cob
4. Wash face, brush teeth, lay down, Zzzzz’s within a couple minutes.
5. I try to find the fun in most things I do, whether they are fun or not.
6. Not a fan, but better than most sports.
7. I don’t spend a whole lot of time looking or worrying about it. Is what it is.
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