A mixed bunch

Can you see a red thread? I can’t.

1. Who are your favorite cartoon characters?
Wiley Coyote and the Roadrunner, Crazy Cat, uhm, I used to watch a lot of cartoons but I seem to have gone off them. I do wish Crazy Cat were on occasionally, though, it’s been years since I saw that.

2. Have you yet reached the point where you feel like you are from a different generation than today’s youth?
Oh yes. I feel very young a lot of the time, but put a couple of teenagers on the seat behind me on the bus and I feel positively middle aged.

3. What was the first Music Video that really impressed you? What made it so amazing?
I can’t really remember which was the first, but a very good early one (early for me, that is) was the one for that Pet Shop Boys song… You know: “My heart starts missing a beat, my heart starts missing a beat, every time, a-a-ah, every time, a-a-ah” and so on.

4. Name a song and an era that comes to mind when you hear the word “Retro.”
I think of recent songs that have a “retro” feel when you say retro, not an era gone by. So… that “just another lemon three” song, I guess, is an example.

5. How has your life been affected by HIV or AIDS?
Has it been affected? Hm. Well, I guess casual, unprotected sex does not seem to me to be a good idea, but then I don’t think it would have seemed like a very good idea to me even if it weren’t for HIV/AIDS…

6. Yesterday in the USA, we celebrated “Mothers Day,” a day where we honor the mothers in our lives. If you were on a “special day” nominating committee, who or what would you recommend that we create a day in honor of?
I think we have ever so slightly too many special days as it is. Couldn’t we just try to be better at telling each other how great we think we are on all the ordinary days instead?

7. Last week, we have several Tornadoes tore through many neighborhoods, destroying homes and devastating the lives of the residents. How would you feel if you lost every possession you owned? Or would it matter? How would you go on with your life?
Would it matter? Yes, of course. Would I be devastated? Probably, for a while, anyway. Would I pick myself up and keep going? Definitely. I may be a hoarder, but that’s because I’m so bad at getting rid of things. In some ways it would be a relief to have a clean slate and start again (I’d build up a new collection of stuff soon enough). The only things I’d be really, really upset to lose are things like photographs and old letters.

Voice in my head: well, it’s obviously that stupid lemon tree song now, isn’t it?