Sorry folks, I've been pretty busy, and at a loss for significant ideas. However, I'll be compiling the R&T entries later tonight, and posting them up tomorrow (or late tonight, really). Then I leave for a weekend trip to Cooperstown, NY.
Be good y'all.
Home of the Baseball Hall of Fame. We have the Basketball Hall of Fame here.
ReplyDeleteYeah Cooperstown! Such a nice little place to tool around in for a couple days. All baseball, all the time. The little league games are so cute there - a thousand times more serious than elsewhere I think.
ReplyDeleteCooperstown, huh? Make sure you behave yourself there,
ReplyDeleteSincerely,
C. Cooper.
Mate, you're never lost for ideas!
ReplyDeleteChewy -
ReplyDeleteIndeed. That's why I'm going. Never been, always wanted to.
victorya -
ReplyDeleteNot really the season for little league anymore, but now that you said that, I'll be on the lookout.
Carol-
ReplyDeleteMy two stock answers:
1) Like I behave.
2) I always behave.
David-
ReplyDeleteI wish.
Bart,
ReplyDeleteIt is with great pleasure that I accept the offer to interview you. You are a very interesting man and so I am entirely completely unable to limit myself to only five questions.
1. Your blog is chock full of sarcasm and humor. In elementary school were you the intellectual kid with a dry sense of humor that no one understood? Do you mind posting a picture from that era?
2. You seem to be one that can get ticked off at seemingly small things, like big cars that park too close to your Japanese hybrid while you are picking up a ream of not-so-white 100% recycled paper at the office supply store. Or when people just misuse a common word that just about everyone misuses. Do you consider yourself short tempered? Or simply one who is passionate about things in which you believe? Were you raised by strong willed people that fought for their beliefs? Or what do you think causes you to react so strongly in certain situations?
3. It is apparent you possess a distaste for organized religion. Or at least those religions with proselyting missionaries. However, are there any organizations to which you claim allegiance? A recreational soccer team? The local Thespian group? AA? Or a knitting club, perhaps? On a personal note, if there is ever anything I could do to get you to listen to the Mormon missionaries, is that something you would share with me?
4. You seem to be a bit of a word wizard. A message mogul in a sense. Has your passion for the English language ever brought you real fame or benefit? For example, did you ever win the school spelling bee? Or have a Letter to the Editor published?
5. I’m sure we’d all agree that your persuasive writing skills are top-notch. Did you ever consider law school? Or did you at least take the LSAT? If so, do you mind sharing your score with us? If not, have there been career dreams you wish you would have followed? Or still plan to follow?
6. We are somewhat familiar with your book in progress about a has-been rock band. What about the roadie life interests you enough to write a novel surrounding that theme? And…When you were ten and the kids in your neighborhood formed a garage band (all kids do this at some point right?) did you play the Quaker Oatmeal cardboard cylinder drums? Or another instrument? You weren’t the lead singer were you?
Thank you for taking the time to be interviewed. I feel like Katie Couric. Except I’m not that small. And I’m not blonde. And I don’t live in NYC. And I don’t own anything Prada. Nevertheless, this was a hard-nosed interview, would you agree?
I was *just* wondering where you were! Weird.
ReplyDeleteCooperstown is one of my favorite places to visit. Great photo ops. Baseball baseball baseball. Love wandering up & down the little side streets. So much charm. And the people are so nice. Used to make it a daytrip or a two-day road trip when I still lived in Connecticut.