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[jawnbc]

A - Age: 39
B - Boyfriend: The Man The Myth The Legend, querrelle
C - Chore you hate: It's a tie--Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand! I mean, dusting and vacuuming
D - Dad's name: Padraic (Patrick) John
E - Essential make up item: Body Shop seaweed cleasner, tone and moisturizer. And steroid creme
F - Favorite actresses: Jody Foster, JUliet Binoche, Sarah Polley
G - Gold or silver: Neither. Mining precious metals and gems is done on the backs of exploited Africans. Too much bloodshed
H - Hometown: Nu Yawk City (birth); Vancouver (soul)
I - Instruments you play: Sadly none. Did violin and drums as a kid
J - Job title: Research Fellow
K - Kids: Butchie, Buddy, Pomp, Jerry, Pickle, Sheila and Bruce
L - Living arrangements: With da gurlz, Jocelyne et Noel
M - Mum's Name: Patricia Anne Marie
N - Number of people you've slept with: avogadro's number for sex, mere dozens for actually sleeping with.
O - Overnight hospital stays: One: two turned eyes fixed at age 4
P - Phobia: spiders
Q - Quotes you like: "It's a town full of losers. And we're pulling out of here to win." "Happiness is the lucky pane of glass you carry in your head. It takes all your cunning just to hang on to it, and once it's smashed you have to move into a different sort of life." "Re-examine all that you have been told in school, or in church or in any book. Dismiss whatever insults your soul."
R - Rude habit you have: if you don't notice it, why on earth would I point it out?
S - Siblings: Kathleen! Michael! Tommy! (and John! That's how Mum called us for dinner.Always)
T - Time you wake up: 9am
U - Unique habit: mental machinations
V - Vegetable you refuse to eat:Generally spinach, it was so over-served in my childhood
W - Worst habit: lethargy
X - X:rays you've had : Skull (3), neck (2), coccyx (1), arms (2), toe (2), hand (1), teeth (12?), chest (3), GI (3). Fade away and radiate.
Y - Yummy food you make: Aubergine parmagiana, beef stew, pizza, Oirish soda bread
Z - Zodiac Sign: Pisces, (Wood) Dragon

Comments

[sarahparah.livejournal.com]

Re: C ... *snort*

[jawnbc]

:)

[blue-by-you.livejournal.com]

C - Chore you hate: It's a tie--Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand! I mean, dusting and vacuuming

I laughed SO hard.
This was really fun! I liked learning a bit more about you.

[jawnbc]

ta...likewise :)

[clauditorium.livejournal.com]

Have you seen the movie Damage? The first moment where Juliette Binoche and Jeremy Irons see each other is mesmerizing, and she is stunning in that movie.

[jawnbc]

no I haven't....but I absolutely detest Irons. So I probably won't.

[clauditorium.livejournal.com]

It's a shame. He's very good in two or three movies, this one included (Dead Ringers is another).

[danlmarmot.livejournal.com]

Awfully noble of you to think of Africans, but the majority of the world's gold doesn't come from there at all:

http://www.goldsheetlinks.com/production.htm

And the world's top silver producers these days are Mexico, Peru, Australia, the United States, and Canada (in order).

OK, I'm being picky. But you could've just said "They're not my style" rather then erroneously linking them to a favorite political cause.

[jawnbc]

I said precious metals and gems. Africa accounts for about 1/3 of gold production.Diamonds are more often used in conflicts (see here for the UN's spin on the issue. But generally major gold, silve and precious metal firms reap huge profits while paying mediocre wages and operating mines below acceptable standards in the US, Canada and Europe--the markets where the products are often sold.

I actually like silver and gold. An ex-lover gave me a great diamond stud earring years ago. Don't wear 'em.

[danlmarmot.livejournal.com]

But the question was 'gold or silver', not precious metals or gems.

And it gets into some very interesting cultural issues. By far, the largest consumer use of gold is for jewelry in India--not the US or Europe. Thus, would it be correct to demand that Indians give up their gold jewelry to improve the lives of gold miners?

Silver's kind of interesting anyway; the biggest use of silver is for photographic film, not jewelry.

I guess what I'm saying is that it's a bit condescending to automatically assume that poor exploited Africans are producing luxury items for rich Westerners.

Except for some areas of the diamond trade, it's generally not true.

[danlmarmot.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry for nitpicking. I'm just being a grumpus today. Maybe it's the seasons changing or something.

[jawnbc]

no worries. I tossed it off, you tossed it back, I tossed it back.

the coming of the winter rains here in the PNW does it to me too. I'm at home watching ABBA the Videos on my laptop.