Plinky, Inc. http://www.plinky.com/people/Jasph.xml All Rights Reserved Jas Howard - Plinky Answers 2009-10-29T11:57:57-06:00 http://www.plinky.com/answers/77095 Our costume concept blew everybody away 2009-10-29T11:57:57-06:00 "Couple In A Strong Wind"
My wife & I wired our clothes to look like they were blowing in the same direction (my necktie straight out to the side, her dress blowing up to reveal her underwear). She had a purse that was spilling, with contents glued together to look like they were tumbling out, and wore a wig that she sprayed to look windblown. I had a fedora pinned to the side of my head and carried an inside-out umbrella. We won "Best Couple Costume" at a party we went to.


]]> http://www.plinky.com/answers/69744 'Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell' wasn't an easy read 2009-08-13T08:27:45-06:00

]]> http://www.plinky.com/answers/67519 I remember 2009-07-23T08:11:50-06:00 My dirty first memory


I was sitting on my mom's lap in the front seat of the family car. Dad had parked in front of our new house, which was under construction. My mom lifted me up so I could see over the dashboard. I remember thinking: our house is made of dirt? I couldn't see the foundation that had just been poured, because of the huge pile of dirt right in front of it.

I guess we got out and walked around to look at the new foundation. But I don't remember that.

So my first memory is of a pile of dirt. My parents tell me I would have been three years old at the time. 1959.

]]> http://www.plinky.com/answers/55156 Big harmony, big intro & bass, big finish 2009-05-15T14:01:25-06:00 The louder you crank D'Angelo, the more layers you hear. The Yessongs version of "Heart of the Sunrise" begins with Stravinsky's glorious "Firebird Suite" and has a bass solo in the middle that sounds like it's played by a giant on suspension bridge cables. And then of course The Beatles, from John's spooky, lovely opening lines to the fabulous car-wreck crescendo and a dozen pianos crashing at the end.


D'Angelo by Send It On

Heart of the Sunrise (live version)) by Yes

A Day in the Life by Beatles

]]> http://www.plinky.com/answers/50515 My road-trip mix tape 2009-04-24T08:03:42-06:00 These, or any of about three thousand other songs.


Spanish Joint by D'Angelo

Suite: Judy Blue Eyes by Crosby, Stills & Nash

Painting By Chagall by The Weepies

]]> http://www.plinky.com/answers/45950 Haiku Charlie 2009-04-10T08:35:54-06:00 Sorry for previous premature answerbuttonation...

Where the hell am I?
Wait, let me try that again.
When the hell am I?

]]> http://www.plinky.com/answers/45944 Haiku Charlie 2009-04-10T08:31:45-06:00

]]> http://www.plinky.com/answers/24173 Too hip for the room 2009-03-03T16:17:10-06:00 Ever since my dad had and his sister had their hips replaced, I've found this off-and-on twinge in my own hip more foreboding. Not so much an obsessive fear as a compulsive resistance to what may be genetically inevitable.

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