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1/12/2006

The "Four Things" Thing

Via Culture Cat...

Four Jobs You've Had In Your Life:
1. Toll booth operator, Ambassador Bridge (Detroit, MI)
2. Maintenance, YMCA (Youngstown, OH)
3. Intern, Automotive News (Detroit, MI)
4. Assistant Professor, Miami University (Hamilton and Oxford, OH)

Four Movies You Could Watch Over and Over:
1. Wonder Boys
2. The Godfather, Parts 1 and 2
3. Jackie Brown
4. Foul Play

Four Places You've Lived:
1. U.S. Regional Headquarters, PIME Missionaries (Detroit, MI)
2. Dorm Room, Peace&Justice Floor, UDM (Detroit, MI)
3. Wildflower Apartments (Tucson, AZ)
4. a big brick house on Emerson Ave. (Hamilton, OH)

Four TV Shows You Love to Watch:
1. Lost
2. West Wing
(I try to cut it off there)

Four Places You've Been On Vacation:
1. Assisi, Italy
2. Toronto
3. New Orleans
4. World's Longest Garage Sale, Rt. 127, Kentucky

Four Blogs You Visit Daily:
1. Detroit Blog
2. Motor City Rocks
3. Yellow Dog
4. Schenectady Synedoche

Four Favorite Foods:
1. Vegetarian Mole (err, "mo-lay," not the small animal which would negate the "vegetarian" part)
2. Wedding Soup
3. Sushi
4. Peppery Chickpeas

Four Places You'd Rather Be:
1. NYC
2. Caribou Coffee
3. Sabino Canyon (Tucson, AZ)
4. any seafood joint in New Orleans

Four Albums You Can't Live Without:
1. Detroit Cobras--Mink Rabbit or Rat
2. Pavement--Slanted and Enchanted
3. X-Ray Spex--Germ-Free Adolescents
4. Patti Smith--Horses
(Runners-Up: Aretha Franklin--Lady Soul, anything by Kraftwerk and Roxy Music, REM--New Adventures in Hi-Fi, Captain Beefheart--Safe as Milk)

Four Vehicles I've Owned:
1. year one of college: 1981 Toyota Tercel with a "Clergy" windshield sign
2. year two of college: 1985 Honda Civic originally owned by my Uncle Dean
3. year three of college: 1973 Ford LTD Station Wagon that was significantly bigger than my dorm room
4. year four of college: babyblue 1977 Oldsmobile Cutlass with a Clinton/Gore bumper sticker

Four People To Be Tagged:
if you're reading this and you have a blog, DO IT.

2 comments:

Donna said...

Just thought I would leave a comment to say that I followed your lead. Best wishes for the new semester!

bdegenaro said...

Same to you, Donna. I'm resolving to blog on a much more regular basis this term. Hopefully subject matter will consistently be as productive as this meme...