Ask Roger Anything comes at a really opportune time. Answering your questions really revs up the batteries. Leave your questions in the comment section, or if you're really shy, e-mail them to me.
I don't know about other bloggers, but I need the relationship that blogging can provide. Often, and this is both counter-intuitive and slightly nerve wracking, I'll go look at other blogs when I "should" be working on my own. This is not so I can steal from them, though a meme or six has come that way, but because I need the electronic esprit de corps.
A little bit ago, I noted that I don't really write this blog and that I often have the content of a piece go in a different direction than I had initially planned. Likewise, I learn a lot from commenting elsewhere, including about me.
From Gordon's noting the passing of a friend, I learned how much I regretted dropping - 20 years ago! -a methodology that I used to use to keep up with friends. From ADD's piece on creator rights, I realized that there is a parallel between those who want to protect the status quo ("they signed the damn contract; it's their own fault") and some forms of Christianity, which I will call fundamentalism (not a great word, really, but understood - or misunderstood well enough for this purpose). Whereas trying to create a more equitable distribution of wealth fits into (my) loosey-goosey "liberal" theology that suggests that getting to the right end is more important than the literal reading of "the law".
So back to the issue at hand, just about anything goes. I do not recall a question yet that I did not answer, and answer with the truth; the whole truth and nothing but the truth will cost extra.
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Brian at Coverville played my John Hiatt-Elvis Costello request, the lowest rated song on the show, alas!
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Also Musical: Jaquandor's ten film scores, or filmscores.
ROG
Demographics of cigarette smoking
21 hours ago
5 comments:
Does David Paterson know what he's doing?
To what degree is the eBook the way of the future? (I assume we all grant that there will be eBooks, but how much will they take over?)
There are, by my rough estimation, about fifty thousand books about the Beatles. Can you recommend a couple, to help narrow it all down?
How many guitars are in Rochester's famous House of Guitars?
Who's going to win the NL pennant, the AL pennant, and eventually the World Series?
Is there an entertainer (singer, musician, actor, all, etc.) that you first couldn't understand why they were even in the business, but now admire their work?
Given how the media has access to so much information and gets to see so much of a famous person's life, do you think it's best to always steer clear of them being accepted as role models?
On the other side of this, who that is famous do you think is a good example of a good role model?
What is your favorite show that is not shown on one of the big four networks (and Jeopardy!, though syndicated, counts as a big network show, since it's always found on one of their local affiliates)?
You might have posted this already and I missed it, but had Lydia been a boy, what were your choices for a name?
Put on your jumper, and you go Huh???
My Prime Minister appears on David letterman and there was subtitles when John Key spoke, and david letterman had a HUH? look.
Yes, Jumpers are what you wear, I suppose you call them pullover in USA.
Great to have old photos, ours, fortunately were ruined by my parents tenants when they moved to Australia.
Tell your daughter to put on a jumper and see her expression.
Cheers,
Ann
Here's a question that might lead to some, well, potentially awkward and uncomfortable conversation:
With all of the "criticism" around President Obama winning the Peace Prize, how much of it do you feel is legitimate (i.e., it's too soon to tell) and how much may be racially motivated.
Part of the reason why I ask is that several of my friends, after being moderate/liberal for years, are now suddenly becoming hard-core conservatives, and claiming that they "never trusted" Obama. Although the record's still out for me, to be fair - he's only been in office ten months, and he has some extremely formidable tasks ahead of him...
(I'm still annoyingly moderate, leaning towards liberal)
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