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      • In response to: "If you could be a member of any band, what would it be?" It would be some sort of Irish folk group with a cute female fiddle player. She could draw crowds, and the rest would be easy. I would get to play the guitar and mandolin and concertina. Perfect.
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    • In defense of my vice: Miami Vice

      • (Though vicegrips came in second)


        Junior Prom

        Miami Vice is my favorite vice, but only barely. It was a close one. Vicegrips came in second, though they are handy...in a pinch.

        I started in on Miami Vice as a child, when the program was a weekly show on television. I have now realized, no adult in their right mind should ever have allowed me to watch that show. It's about pimps, and drug dealers, and murder and suchnot. I'm not sure they could have come up with a much better title for the show. Unless it took place in Louisville. Then they probably would have called it Louisville Vice.

        Overall, I appreciate Miami Vice for starting me in on the genuine vice of watching edgy television. I still have a taste for it to this day, and I think it's at least in part due to my parents' poor judgment and the hot-pink sexiness of Miami Vice.

      • answered by jasonmclaughlin on 02/09/2009
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    • What Wild Animal Would You Have As A Pet?

      • Oh, I'd really rather not. Domesticated animals are exotic enough for me. But if I must...I'd obviously get a Komodo dragon. I don't know why anybody would bother with any other fantasy pet. They bite things and wait for them to die, then they feast on the infected flesh and continue the cycle by keeping a horribly bacteria-ridden mouth. They're like politicians in this and many other ways.


        Komodo Dragon

        I bitez yer leg fer to give ya a infeckshun!

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    • If I had easy access to a helicopter, it wouldn't really matter where I went.

      • Nope. Not really.

        I've never seen the Badlands, and they're pretty close by. At least, I think within helicopter distance. And they'd be totally awesome to see from the sky. It would also be cool to go up to Duluth and beyond up the north shore of Lake Superior. Or really, just flying a helicopter around downtown Minneapolis would be great. So, as it turns out, the fantasy scenario of my friend having a helicopter at all is more intriguing than where I'd travel for a weekend. We've got a freaking helicopter! It doesn't matter where we go! We'll be the coolest kids at school.

      • answered by jasonmclaughlin on 02/08/2009
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    • My favorite place to hear music: First Avenue

      • What a great place to see music happen...

        FIRST AVENUE is pretty great, though I have to admit: I haven't been to an amazingly large amount of music shows. I've enjoyed First Ave. on several occasions, as it's the biggest of the non-stadium rock clubs in town. Most major bands that are much of anything in the past 20 years have played First Avenue. My personal favorite concert there was watching Bad Religion in October of 2007. It was so dense with people, and so high-energy. It's the best concert I've been to so far.

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    • Why I gave up on "Heart of Darkness"

      • There are very few books I've started but not finished. I generally try to completely avoid books that I won't finish, and I have a sort of completion compulsion toward finishing books I start to read. I am not similarly disabled when trying to WRITE a book, unfortunately.

        I stopped because it was the first in an overwhelming stack of 12 books we were supposed to read during the summer before AP English in high school. Silly Mr. Soley. Summer reading? For class? No, that will not do.

        I will probably finish this book someday on my own. In fact...just added it to my *someday* reading list. There. Are you happy, Mr. Soley? I still got a 3 on the AP test (minimum required to get college credit from it) and I didn't read any of the novels, and only half-understood the poetry. Good thing I had some pizazz to offer in the writing department. If only I had pizzas to offer as well, I might have bumped that score up even farther.

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