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Writer's Block: Play Catch
Mar. 3rd, 2012 03:53 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]
Hitchhike?
Hitchhike?
Writer's Block: A La Mode
Mar. 1st, 2012 07:55 am[Error: unknown template qotd]Cary Grant and Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster
Writer's Block: Human Nature
Feb. 7th, 2012 10:00 am[Error: unknown template qotd]Best: Its ability to reason.
Worst: the fact that it too often doesn't
Worst: the fact that it too often doesn't
Writer's Block: Doppelganger Week
Feb. 1st, 2012 04:39 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]I've been told Eddie Izzard, Nathan Lane, or Ricky Gervais. Since they're all very witty, in their own ways, I've not demurred
Writer's Block: First Amendment
Jan. 18th, 2012 12:22 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]The dissemination of ideas is what keeps a person, and a society, free. Just as courage is "rightly esteemed as first of human qualities because it is the quality that guarantees all others", so freedom of speech is the first of personal freedoms.
But freedom of speech is NOT just the freedom to speak, it is the freedom to HEAR; to hear the voice raised against injustice, to hear the cry of the soul in bondage, to hear the words of those who fight oppression with truth.
It is the ability to say "I matter" and have that statement be true.
And it is endowed to us from our Creator by our mere existence; no government, no leader, no court grants it to us. It always HAS, and will always BE our birthright as human beings.
But freedom of speech is NOT just the freedom to speak, it is the freedom to HEAR; to hear the voice raised against injustice, to hear the cry of the soul in bondage, to hear the words of those who fight oppression with truth.
It is the ability to say "I matter" and have that statement be true.
And it is endowed to us from our Creator by our mere existence; no government, no leader, no court grants it to us. It always HAS, and will always BE our birthright as human beings.
Writer's Block: The Walking Dead
Jan. 7th, 2012 07:51 am[Error: unknown template qotd]
Colt 1911A1 with plenty of ammo, M1917 trench knife as back-up
Duh
As to why; I qualified Expert on a 1911 back in my Army days, have owned one since I was 18, go to the firing range with it as often as I'm able, and am thoroughly familiar with it. The trench knife makes for a good back-up because the triangular blade will punch through skull into the putrescent zombie brain, thus eliminating it. QED
Colt 1911A1 with plenty of ammo, M1917 trench knife as back-up
Duh
As to why; I qualified Expert on a 1911 back in my Army days, have owned one since I was 18, go to the firing range with it as often as I'm able, and am thoroughly familiar with it. The trench knife makes for a good back-up because the triangular blade will punch through skull into the putrescent zombie brain, thus eliminating it. QED
Writer's Block: Hello, World!
Jan. 6th, 2012 07:49 am[Error: unknown template qotd]
Watching JFK's funeral. I would have been about 2 years old. I didn't know what was happening, but I remember the room the TV was in, and seeing my sisters and mom crying. It was their crying that made it memorable.
Watching JFK's funeral. I would have been about 2 years old. I didn't know what was happening, but I remember the room the TV was in, and seeing my sisters and mom crying. It was their crying that made it memorable.
Writer's Block: Bare necessities
Dec. 29th, 2011 08:06 am[Error: unknown template qotd]
Air, Water, Food...this is a trick question, right?
Air, Water, Food...this is a trick question, right?
Writer's Block: B.Y.O.B. Holidays
Dec. 16th, 2011 07:58 am[Error: unknown template qotd]
I'd pay Adam Sandler $20M a year to NOT make a movie
I'd pay Adam Sandler $20M a year to NOT make a movie
Writer's Block: B.Y.O.B. Holidays
Dec. 13th, 2011 04:17 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]
A bottle of Calvados would be nice
A bottle of Calvados would be nice
Writer's Block: Starstruck
Dec. 9th, 2011 07:59 am[Error: unknown template qotd]
I met Udo Keir once, while having a cigar outside of Madison Square Garden
I met Udo Keir once, while having a cigar outside of Madison Square Garden
Writer's Block: Family ties
Nov. 23rd, 2011 08:48 am[Error: unknown template qotd]
I just think it's sad that a family can be torn apart by something as simple as a pack of wolves.
I just think it's sad that a family can be torn apart by something as simple as a pack of wolves.
Writer's Block: A few good men
Nov. 18th, 2011 11:55 am[Error: unknown template qotd]
Interesting that quite a few people find the mere asking of this question "US-centric", are "annoyed", or think even asking the question is "ignorant"
I'm interested in hearing what people from other countries or cultures think on a variety of subjects, including this one. Had the question been about British Prime Ministers, I wouldn't have immediately gotten up in arms and thought it "Anglo-centric" or biased or ignorant. I would have either stated my opinion, or ignored it, and gone on about my day.
I'm also cheered to see so few "JFK" responses to this.
-EDIT-
Apparently even suggesting that asking this question in itself, and starting a dialogue with people all over the world, is not entirely a bad thing is "ethnocentric" and enough to get one labelled a "priveleged white male" from people who think they are PRIVELEGED to sit in judgement and put labels on people they don't know. Also a free and honest discussion is BAD if that discussion is about the US? I guess I simply don't understand closed-mindedness.
*scratches head*
I understand the point that this question is, in itself, US-centric, but what is stopping people from posting questions about other places or cultures and starting an open discussion? Isn't that how people learn about one another?
Interesting that quite a few people find the mere asking of this question "US-centric", are "annoyed", or think even asking the question is "ignorant"
I'm interested in hearing what people from other countries or cultures think on a variety of subjects, including this one. Had the question been about British Prime Ministers, I wouldn't have immediately gotten up in arms and thought it "Anglo-centric" or biased or ignorant. I would have either stated my opinion, or ignored it, and gone on about my day.
I'm also cheered to see so few "JFK" responses to this.
-EDIT-
Apparently even suggesting that asking this question in itself, and starting a dialogue with people all over the world, is not entirely a bad thing is "ethnocentric" and enough to get one labelled a "priveleged white male" from people who think they are PRIVELEGED to sit in judgement and put labels on people they don't know. Also a free and honest discussion is BAD if that discussion is about the US? I guess I simply don't understand closed-mindedness.
*scratches head*
I understand the point that this question is, in itself, US-centric, but what is stopping people from posting questions about other places or cultures and starting an open discussion? Isn't that how people learn about one another?
Writer's Block: Red-faced and ruddy
Nov. 3rd, 2011 04:43 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]
Gentlemen are NEVER embarrassed
Gentlemen are NEVER embarrassed
Writer's Block: Night tremors
Oct. 27th, 2011 04:48 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]
I'd like to be able so say "young men" but that hasn't been the case for a while, more's the pity.
I'd like to be able so say "young men" but that hasn't been the case for a while, more's the pity.
Writer's Block: A literary masterpiece
Aug. 20th, 2011 01:04 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]
"Lolita", of course
"Lolita", of course
Writer's Block: Life imitating art
Jul. 23rd, 2011 01:07 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]
Humbert Humbert
Humbert Humbert
Writer's Block: Subtitles please
Jul. 14th, 2011 08:09 am[Error: unknown template qotd]
1) "The Grand Illusion" by Jean Renoir
2) GOD no
1) "The Grand Illusion" by Jean Renoir
2) GOD no
Writer's Block: The long and short of it
Jun. 7th, 2011 09:27 am[Error: unknown template qotd]
I'm not sure of the single longest, but I'm damned sure the longest series is "Song of Ice and Fire" by George RR Martim.
"Gulag Archipelago" maybe? and "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" is probably close to the shortest. So longest and shortest are both by Solzhenitsyn?
I'm not sure of the single longest, but I'm damned sure the longest series is "Song of Ice and Fire" by George RR Martim.
"Gulag Archipelago" maybe? and "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" is probably close to the shortest. So longest and shortest are both by Solzhenitsyn?
