I swore I'd never do this but...

[thefool_wa]

I need 1000 posts TODAY!!

So its time for DU-Lounge "ask me anything"...


BRING IT!

:popcorn:

[Ptah]

1. What direction is The Movement headed in? n/t

[thefool_wa]

5. AWESOME QUESTION!!!!!

We have been doing alot of simple activism stuff (we papered a 2 mile section of the main drag through Bremerton with Wanted posters bearing GW's face) to monthly meetings.

Primarily we are looking to find ways to promote the idea of Constitutional Oligarchy in our state, but without any real political backing (we are soooooo grassroots that we are barely seeds) it is a tough nut to crack.

What does that mean? Ulitmately that we spend the first wednesday of every month at the bar discussing what we read/post on the DU :)


Thanks for asking, that was the BEST way to open this thread!

:yourock: :hug:

[zanne]

2. Do you walk to work or carry a lunch? nt

[thefool_wa]

6. No and sort of

I drive to work, but it is only like 4 miles. I would bike, but I don't have one and it is now fall in the PNW and that means tons of rain.

I do not carry a lunch, but I keep lunch items in my desk drawer at all times so that I might make my own more often than I buy.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. OK....here's a question for you!

Why do you need to get to 1000 today?

Good luck........that's a lot of posts, baby!

:hi:

[thefool_wa]

7. I long for the approval of my peers (not!)

I am having the slowest day ever at work and I need a goal to make my day feel worth while.

That and I am soooooo close!

[Guava Jelly]

4. Why do you hate beets?

:)

[thefool_wa]

8. Beets me (HA!)

Actually I don't, at least not the red, pickled kind. Or sugar beets, very sweet.

:yourock:

[ashling]

9. So, how often do you

make promises or swear not to do things and then go back on your word?
:) :)

[thefool_wa]

10. Hmmm

That's awful direct, but here goes:

I avoid making promises I don't plan, or may not be able, to keep. So, if I promise something I keep my word.

I swear I am not going to do things that I end up doing all the time, but don't we all :) The only one that ever ends up disappointed in me is me though, so it's all good.

Thanks for the hot seat! :)

:yourock:

[ashling]

32. Didn't mean to put you on "the hot seat"

it was actually meant tongue in cheek. Just wondered if this was a first. LOL

[RetroLounge]

11. What do you write?

and what kind of guitar do you have?

RL

[thefool_wa]

14. Great Questions

I write a wide range of things:

I am currently working on a book called "Stringline" (300 pages deep so far) which is a dark future style sci-fi novel about an american revolution (like full on civil war revolution). You can actually read the first act of Stringline at the link in my sig line. (its rough but a good read)

Also, I am a published poet and short story writer. Currently I am trying to have a discussion regarding my latest piece in GD, but it is not going well.

My guitar is a 2000 Fender Mexican Stratocaster. I use a Marshall 8100 power head, but am currently without a speaker stack so it is plugged into my home theater speakers (which actually sound AWESOME for this application).

Thanks RL, one step closer to my goal :)

[RetroLounge]

31. Much like you

I have a novel about 200 pages in, called "Faster" about a father son relationship and how it colored the son's life.

I also pubished poetry and short stories.

and I own a 1979 Gibson Les Paul Custom.

:hi:

RL

(and you can buy books at my sig line. just started entering sci fi and fantasy hard covers)

[Heidi]

12. Why?

And "Why not?" is not a valid answer. :D

[thefool_wa]

15. Because.

:P

[Heidi]

16. Just remember, you _earned_ this:

[thefool_wa]

18. Yes, yes I did!

:D

[Haole Girl]

13. Could you please explain the meaning behind your user name?

Thanks! :hug:

[thefool_wa]

17. That's easy

The Fool is my significator in the Tarot (with a _wa because I live in washington and theFool is typically a user name reserved for admins on most systems, I'm not sure why).

I have a tattoo representation of the card on my right bicep, its quite cool.

The imagery is typically a jester or clown who is looking at the sun and juggling (typically something dangerous) as he walks off a cliff with a small dog barking at him from behind. It represents one who has their eyes focused on their dreams, trying to keep their chaotic life in order as they wander heedlessly to wards oblivion. Fortunately, it also represents one of character and charisma (both of which I have been told I have in spades) who tends to be at or near the center of their circle of friends. This is represented by the dog who is barking at The Fool constantly to keep him/her from wandering off the cliff (my doggie is my wife :)).

It was also once described to me as representing one who has infinite wisdom and no common sense, which described me better when I was younger but still applies a little today.

[Haole Girl]

20. Thanks

Sounds like a great tattoo! Where is Washington do you live, (if that's not too personal)?

[thefool_wa]

22. Not too personal at all

I live in Bremerton, across the Puget Sound from Seattle (15 miles or so as the crow flies).

Its a dumpy little Navy city, but it's home and there is no place in the world I would rather live.

[Haole Girl]

26. Oh, that's a beautiful area

I'm familiar with it...lived in Bellingham for four years (yes, I am a WWU grad!)...many years ago....it was a different world then.

Someday, I'll dig up my tulip photos and post them on DU! :hi:

[thefool_wa]

28. Sweet

thanks for helping me get that all important (heh?) 1000+ marker that I currently covet.

[Haole Girl]

33. Oh...you made it!

Congrats! :bounce: :toast:

[thefool_wa]

38. not yet, but every post counts

955 and climbing. I once posted over 200 times in one day!

Wow, was I a frazzled wreck that day. It wasn't all lounge stuff either, I had some heavy discussions that day.

:beer:

[wildhorses]

19. did you go look at my picture thread?

why not??

[thefool_wa]

21. Yes I did, sheeesh!

And those are beautiful pictures of North Carolina. I have never been there myself (though I did live in Virginia for a year), but the Appalachians are gorgeous, even if they aren't real mountains :P

Come to the NW, we have REAL mountains :)

on edit: did you check out my thread in GD? (I know that place is hell, but check it out, I posted my most recent story there and no one wants to read it before tehy discuss the issue :()

[wildhorses]

24. my mountains are older than your mountains--

and ask any truckdriver about Black Mountain:P

[thefool_wa]

27. Yes, but

Yours are way smaller and curvier on top (I didn't mean that as suggestively as it sounded :blush:).

A friend of mine showed me pictures once of the ski resort he frequented in VA and I was not impressed. I know people up here in WA with driveways taller and steeper than what passes for mountains out there :)

However, I will concede that Skyline Drive is one of the most breathtakingly beautiful stretches of American highway you can visit. There is little if any competition in the west, even in the Rockies.

[wildhorses]

29. ahh--I know you really have the advantage and I would LOVE

to ski out west--I just had to pull your leg a little:pals:

good luck with your goal:toast:

[thefool_wa]

30. Its not looking good

But I shall keep pluggin away, thanks for the help!

:hug: :toast:

[elshiva]

23. What sports do you like?

First question that came to mind... :shrug:

[thefool_wa]

25. Football and NASCAR!

And, yes, NASCAR is a sport (no matter what many may think).

I have been known to be a Baseball fan also, but I'm really just a Mariners fan. I could care less about baseball as a whole, I just like watching the M's play, win or loose.

Oh, and the Seahawks are soooooooooooooo going back to the Superbowl this year, count on it!

:yourock:

[yewberry]

34. Didja get the Sunday Times/P-I today?

Try as I might, I couldn't find a single reference to the MCA or habeas corpus in the op-ed pages.

Predictably, though, the Times went McGavick & Reichert and the P-I went Cantwell & Burner (on adjacent pages)! I think it's time for an intervention over at the newspaper office.

Anything good over on your side of the water?

[thefool_wa]

36. Are you kidding, this is Bremerton!

The top story on the Kitsap Sun site today is about meth addiction. Hell, half the people in this county can't spell Habeas Corpus, let alon know what it is or why we should be afraid of it being taken away.

It's too bad it is soooooo beautiful over here or I would want to leave. But it is, so I stay.

Me, I'm still on the fence over what rights should be applied to resident aliens and visiting, non-diplomatic foreign nationals. I see risk, and I see a need to extend the freedoms and rights we enjoy to those who would move here, but I just don't know for sure.

I do know that I am on board with those who feel this is a dangerous step toward reversal for citizens in the instances of certain types of crimes, and that is the next step to abolition of those rights completely, so I'm torn.

I do know that it is an issue that should require more than just a couple of months debate in our congress.

(ironically, I spelled Habeas Corpus wrong at first. I feel like a tool)

[ThomCat]

35. If you recognize that you are a fool

then are you really a fool? :hi:

[thefool_wa]

37. I not only recognize

I revel in it. Nothing like being the center of my, and everyone around me's universe :)

Did you read the post in this thread about my screen-name origin?

:hi:

[bigwillq]

39. Why do you need it today?

:shrug: