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    • I like it better my way

      • Variously, I've heard the chorus as "Take a load off Mandy," "Andy," "Annie," and an online lyrics database thingy is telling me "Fanny." So I guess Fanny it is. "The Weight" being such a great drunken karaoke song, I don't think it matters much.


        No Rain by Blind Melon

        For years I could have sworn Shannon Hoon was singing "I'd like to keep my sheets dry today" instead of "I'd like to keep my cheeks dry today." I only learned the actual lyrics a decade later via a "misheard lyrics" site. Personally, I liked him better as a bed-wetter.

        Rock You Like a Hurricane by The Scorpions

        Courtesy of my dad: "Here I am... Rock you like an OIL CAN!"

      • answered by kathyp on 09/07/2009
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    • I haven't seen my own handwriting in years

      • It's been over a decade since I've primarily used pen and paper. I know it's not as romantic to use a computer, but my penmanship is terrible and I can type much faster than I can write by hand. To be honest, I do more writing now that I did when I had to use a notebook, or a typewriter.

      • answered by kathyp on 05/10/2009
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    • Stuck in an elevator with Tom Waits

      • Tom Waits
        Tom Waits is actually the person I'd most like to be stuck in jury duty with (and if you've ever had jury duty, you know how utterly boring it is). I'm sure he'd have a few amazing stories to pass the time.


      • answered by kathyp on 04/02/2009
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    • Why I gave up on "infinite jest"

      • I've read everything David Foster Wallace has written, except Infinite Jest. For those unfamiliar with DFW, he likes (or liked, considering his suicide last year) words. Lots of them. Big ones, too. And footnotes. (Hoo boy, the footnotes.)

        I'm on my second go at Infinite Jest. I tried to read it a few years ago and got about two or three-hundred pages in before I had to return it to the library. This time I bough a copy, but still haven't made any progress.

      • answered by kathyp on 03/01/2009
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