Five questions

From tudorlady

1) Ballpoint, fiber tip, or fountain pen?

That's easy. I have a case with twelve assorted fountain pens in my briefcase.

2) How many times have you been on a horse in your life?

A couple I think. I certainly wouldn't claim to be able to ride.

3) Have you really been dressed as a giant carrot in Ottawa?

Most certainly. In the Houses of Parliament no less.

4) Manchester United, or the other guys?

My grandfather started supporting United before WW1. I still do.

5)I'm one of those people who is almost completely indifferent to food,and I have a childish palate. What can you make that (a) won't make mecringe and make embarrassed excuses for not eating and (b) that has nomysterious ingredients?

I could think of all kinds of things. I'd probably stick with something straightforwardly out of the Anglo-French tradition. A daube of beef with pasta and a salad perhaps. I've never met a carnivore who wouldn't eat that.

Cats who scratch book bindings

I have had to give Padmini a lecture about what happens to bengals who wantonly attack theoretical physics books (In this case Lisa Randall's Warped Passages). I'm not sure she really grasps quantum mechanics.

Memeage

Via c_mantix

Comment and I will:

1 - Tell you why I friended you.
2 - Associate you with a song/film.
3 - Tell a random fact about you.
4 - Tell a first memory about you.
5 - Associate you with a character/pairing.
6 - Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.
7 - Tell you my favorite user pic of yours [if it pertains].
8 - In retort, you must spread this disease in your LJ.

Pimping a show

lemur_catta's brother, daubentonia, is organising a retrospective of their dad's work. If you are in the Bay area see if you can get by to see it.

As you can see below, his work (and this one will be in the show) attracts the finest connoisseurs.