Tuesday, January 03, 2006

A meme from Mitch

A meme I picked up on from Mitch's site:

FOUR JOBS YOU'VE HAD IN YOUR LIFE
1) Trade Checker at the Chicago Board of Options Exchange

2) DJ at She-Nanigans in Eau Claire..

3) Radio commercial writer/producer/voiceover

4) Short-order/pizza cook at many establishments (I would also add telemarketer to that list, but I'd never admit to it)



FOUR MOVIES YOU COULD WATCH OVER AND OVER

1) Citizen Kane

2) This Is Spinal Tap (agree with Mitch on this)

3) Night of the Hunter (a 1953 flick with Robert Mitchum)

4) The Blues Brothers



FOUR BOOKS YOU COULD READ AGAIN & AGAIN

1) The Last Jihad

2) Enthusiasm Makes the Difference (Norman Vincent Peale)

3) The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

4) In One Era and Out the Other by Sam Levinson



FOUR CITIES/PLACES YOU'VE LIVED IN
1) Berwyn, IL (a near-west Chicago suburb; born and raised there)

2) Eau Claire, WI

3) Bloomer, WI (jump rope capital of the world)

4) Marty, MN (a/k/a Pearl Lake)

(among others)



FOUR TV SHOWS YOU LOVE TO WATCH (don't watch much TV, but here goes)
1) Family Guy

2) Mythbusters

3) Ghost Hunters

4) The Best of Mother Angelica (EWTN)


FOUR PLACES YOU'VE BEEN ON VACATION

1) Canada

2) Mexico

3) Every state of the Contiguous 48 west of the Mississippi

4) Florida and many East Coast states.



FOUR WEBSITES YOU VISIT DAILY ... OOOOooohhh.. there are SO MANY, but here goes..

1) Peace Like a River

2) Hammerswing

3) KAR; Nihlist (those two just go together like peas and carrots)

4) The Night Writer.


FOUR OF YOUR FAVORITE FOODS

1) My wife's rice stuffing (mom's recipe) with chorizo sausage.

2) An honest-to-pete Chicago-style hot dog (Mitch says Polish), with onions, relish, cucumbers, pickles, tomatoes, and sport peppers, topped with celery salt on a poppyseed bun.

3) A Chicago-style Italian Beef and sausage combination served on a hoagie dipped in its own gravy, with hot Italian giardinera and roasted sweet bell peppers (I just served this on New Years day...if you want a great recipe, let me know)

4) My wife's three-bean hot dish, served on a tortilla with habanero sauce.



FOUR PLACES YOU'D RATHER BE RIGHT NOW

1) Hawaii (never been there, though I'd like to visit)

2) Clearwater Beach, Florida

3) Arizona

4) My travel trailer at my seasonal campsite near Detroit Lakes (if it were summer, that is)




(Filed under Fun Stuff; Fun Stuff with da MOB)