Getting to Know You
1. What is your favorite color? Cubbie blue.
2. If you could get on a plane tomorrow and travel anywhere, where would you go? Hollywood! The TCM Film Festival is coming up and this year, I can't afford to go. But I want to. Desperately.
3. Were you closer to your mother or to your father? My mom.
4. What is your favorite meal (savory and dessert)? Friday I had the best burger -- with bacon, cheese and a fried egg. It was freaking HEAVEN! So I want that again. Fries. Cole slaw. Coke or a beer. And a Dove Bar for dessert.
5. Can you wink with each eye? (How about curl your tongue)? Yes to all.
6. Beach or forest? Forest.
7. City or farm? City!
8. Would you rather be blind from birth or turn blind as a teenager? No, thank you. OK, I'll be a good sport and answer the question: blind from birth.
9. Would you rather always be overdressed or underdressed? Need more definition here. Do you mean overdressed as in too elegant for the situation? Or overdressed as in a down coat on an 80ยบ day?
10. If you could pass alone one of your attributes to your children, which would it be? My conscience.
11. What are you most insecure about? My financial future.
12. What are you afraid people see when they look at you? Nothing. The older I get, the more invisible I feel.
13. What is the saddest you’ve ever felt? After John Kerry lost to George W. Bush. I put everything I had into that campaign and it literally broke my heart. John Kerry is smart and decent and dedicated. He deserved better, and our country deserved him.
14. Would you rather have your own private island, or your own private jet? Island. I will name it Galtopia.
15. How do you think you will die? I have a strong feeling that it will be fast. I don't know if it'll be a fatal stroke or heart attack or a cataclysmic accident. I don't dwell on it much.
Saturday 9: Buttons & Bows (1948)
Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here.
1) The lyrics extol the beauty of
"rings and things and buttons and bows." When you're getting dressed, do
you give much thought to accessorizing? I'm not much for scarves and belts, but I do enjoy jewelry. I always wear earrings when I go out. Usually a necklace. Never bracelets but often a watch. I enjoy watches. That's one thing I don't like about advancements in technology; there's not a lot of style or originality in a FitBit!
2) Dinah Shore sings that she doesn't
want to live where the cactus hurts her toes. Sam can sympathize, as she
has a blister on one of her toes from where her winter boots rub. Do
you have any aches and pains to report this morning? Nope. I feel pretty good this morning.
3) Dinah was such a popular entertainer
that people were surprised to learn she earned a degree in sociology
from Vanderbilt University. What is something we'd be surprised to know
about you? I can be pretty macabre. One of my favorite shows is Autopsy: The Last Hours of ... . My oldest friend is even worse; she's never seen a vampire movie or mob story she doesn't like. We've been friends since Kindergarten. I wonder if it's something in the water in the town where we grew up.
4) Dinah's was the best selling version of this song, which was introduced by Bob Hope in the movie The Paleface.
Hope had success early in his career as a song-and-dance man on
Broadway. Are you better at telling jokes, singing or dancing? I laugh easily and I like jokes. Here's the first one that comes to mind. (It's been credited to Paul Lynde on The Hollywood Squares.)
How many balls on a regulation billiard table?
Depends on how many men are sitting on it.
5) Both Bob and Dinah donated their
time to entertaining the troops in WWII. It was during a USO tour that
Dinah met and fell in love with actor George Montgomery, who was serving
in the Air Force. They were married for 20 years and had two children.
Their daughter followed her parents into show business and became an
actress. If a young person asked you for career advice, what would you
tell them? Consider geography when you choose a career. I've had friends who left Chicago for their dream locations only to find it wasn't so easy to get jobs in their professions.
• A friend with experience in financial marketing moved to Denver, a city where few banks have headquarters. He was unemployed for a long, long time.
• My oldest friend, a hospital administrator specializing in cardiology, longed to live near her family in Hesperia, California. The nearest job she could get was in Topanga, almost two hours away.
• My friend Henry, a college professor, moved to Key West, which has just one institute of higher learning. When things didn't work out at the community college, he ended up in lower paid jobs at the newspaper and the public library.
In short, if you long to teach surfing, don't move to the desert.
6) Dinah was an avid golfer and even
sponsored an LPGA tournament. She was also an excellent cook who hosted
TV cooking segments. Which would you find more relaxing -- an afternoon
on the golf course or in the kitchen? Ew, this is hard because neither one sounds attractive to me. I suppose golf, if I'm with people who don't take it too seriously because, except for putt-putt, I've never tried it.
7) In 1948, the year this record was a
hit, Scrabble was introduced. Do you prefer word games, card games,
board games or jigsaw puzzles? Card games, especially Canasta.
8) Also in 1948, LPs (33 1/3 rpm records) were introduced. Do you have any vinyl records in your home? Lots. I don't know why, since I have nothing to play them on.
9) Random question -- Which of these would you consider the greatest insult: to be called boring, untrustworthy or stupid? Untrustworthy. I know I'm neither boring nor stupid.
