And at pub trivia last night…

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The theme was “chestnuts roasting on an open fire” and the questions were either holiday-themed or pertaining to food trucks (and no, I don’t know what food trucks have to do with chestnuts roasting).  The last time I went to pub trivia happened to be a few days after the Paris attack and there was sort of a “we keep Paris in our hearts” theme, which was relevant.  But I was surprised that we weren’t remembering the late Scott Weiland, who passed less than a week ago (did ’90s icons suddenly stop being important?)  I don’t mean to say Scott Weiland dying in his tour bus was exactly the same as the Paris attack (two very different things), but would it kill the organizers of pub trivia to play a Stone Temple Pilots, Velvet Revolver, or Wildabouts song and have a trivia question that goes with it?  The holidays are about being sentimental, and music more than anything puts us in that sentimental mood (and by music I don’t mean Mariah Carey Christmas album played on repeat all night).  But I’m just saying.

A Bit About My Reading Habits

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Because these tag things are FUN 🙂

Do you have a certain place at home for reading?  Yes, I sit on the white couch in the living room with my feet up.  The light is nice in there.

Bookmark or random piece of paper?  Random piece of paper, in the event I’I’m reading an actual book.  I read quite a bit on my iPad.

Can you just stop reading or do you have to stop at th end of a chapter/a certain amount of pages?  I can stop pretty much at any point.

Do you eat or drink while reading?  I drink espresso, I smoke.

Multitasking, music or TV whilst reading?  Always music.

One book at a time or several at once?  One at a time.

Read at home or everywhere?  Usually at home, but if I go on vacation, I’ll bring something to read by the pool.

Read aloud or silently in your head?  I read silently, unless I’m reading to my niece and nephew.

Do you read ahead or even skip pages?  Never that.

Breaking the spine or keeping it new?  I usually end up breaking the spine, except with a few hardcover books I have.

Do you write in books?  Nope.

TMI Tuesday: Snooping

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If I were to come to your home…

  1. And look in the refridgerator, what would I see?  Milk, eggs, a tray of leftover lasagna…a carton of cigarettes I’m keeping fresh, a pitcher of filtered water.
  2. And open your front room closet or hall closet, what would I see?  A goddamn mess, that’s what.  The closet in the foyer is a dumping ground for umbrellas, extension cords, vacuum cleaner attachments, a rattan cane that once belonged to my late grandfather, and various other junk we like to keep hidden out of sight.
  3. And open the top left drawer of your dresser, what would I see?  Top left dresser drawer is my everyday watch, some necklaces, bracelets, earrings.
  4. And go to your bedroom and look under the bed, what would I see?  Very little dust, I hope, seeing as how I run the vacuum three times a week.
  5. And look under your basement stairs, what would I find?  Canned goods, I shit you not, in t he event the apocalypse comes, I have enough canned goods to last me awhile.

Bonus: When visiting other people’s homes and using the bathroom-friends, relatives, parties-do you look in their medicine chest?  Of course I do.  It’s a breech of the “host-guest bond”, it’s a violation of their trust, but I have zero scruples, so yeah, I do it.

R.I.P Scott Weiland

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Scott Weiland was a ’90s icon.  Best known as the frontman of Stone Temple Pilots (I actually saw him with STP at Roseland Ballroom way way back in the day) and The Velvet Revolver, he died in his tourbus while on the road with his current band, The Wildabouts.  He was a kick-ASS live performer, and was once quoted as having said he was both a tenacious drug addict AND a tenacious recoverer (something that makes sense to me, maybe because I’ve been a tenacious alcoholic and now consider myself to be a tenacious recoverer).  Best known for songs like Interstate Love Song, Vasoline, Sour Girl, and Fall to Pieces, he was a charasmatic performer, and he will be missed.