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Stevie Wonder -03- Living for the City

This is an experiment.

Video: Show us a clip from your favorite cartoon.

I'm not sure if this is my favorite cartoon, or just one that I like very much.  It's Eastern Europe's favorite cat and mouse team, Worker & Parasite!

How do you pass the time during a flight?  What do you bring in your carry-on?

Magazines and paperbacks--I like to leave 'em on the plane, or on a bench at the airport or whatever, when I'm finished reading.  I also bring an mp3 player, bottle of water, Nintendo DS, camera, maybe some kind of snack, etc.  This is pretty much the stuff I bring most places, except that I put the pocketknife in my checked bag.

Despite bringing all this stuff with me, I usually pass the time during a flight by staring out the window.

What gameshow or reality show would you kick butt on?

If kicking butt on a game show consisted of only answering questions, I'd probably do pretty well on Jeopardy!, or Lingo, or any of those basic-cable pop-culture quiz shows (Beat the Geeks is probably the highest-profile one).  But game show success must be more complicated than that, or else you'd see a lot more socially awkward, hideously ugly, morbidly obese, etc. people on game shows.

Reality shows, though?  I can't think of any that I'd be good at.  Wait, maybe Temptation Island.  As one of the couples, not one of the, uh, tempters.  Though I suppose I'd have to become part of a couple first.

Okay, so, partly because I've never posted here, here's a list of the books in this photo of some paperbacks, on my bookshelves, from 200...2 or 3, maybe?  This would've probably been a bookshelf in a hallway in a duplex, called a 'half-double,' in the Clintonville section of Columbus, Ohio.

So these books?  I believe they're all secondhand.  Some of them were gifts.  I bought a lot of 'em at thrift stores, a few in used bookstores, and took quite a few out of 'free book' places (trash piles, a couple coffeeshops, a box in the English department offices).  I don't think I paid more than sixty cents for any of them (I'd've said twenty-five, but for the sticker on Dancing Wu Li Masters).  I've since given most of them away.  Some of the ones that I still own, though, I've had for twenty years now.

Paperback shelves