Sunday Stealing

Stolen from Tom

1) What was the scariest thing in the world to you when you were a kid? Does it still scare you now?

A. This is a difficult question to answer. The scariest thing "in the world" to me as a child was not something like spiders and snakes, but the adults in my life. They do not scare me now.

 

2) Imagine your 12-year-old daughter (or granddaughter) is hosting a sleepover at your home. A sudden storm knocks out cellphone service, wifi and cable. How would you keep these suddenly unplugged pre-teens entertained?

A. A game of Scrabble, or card games. Maybe I would teach them how to play poker. We could also do sing-a-longs because I can't imagine any child of mine (or grandchild of mine) not knowing how to play a little guitar. We could play "truth or dare" or "never have I ever." Whether or not they'd go along with those suggestions would be another story, but maybe they'd enjoy it.

 

3) What piece of movie or TV memorabilia would you love to own?

A. I would love to own the One Ring from the original Lord of the Rings movie (I have a facsimile of it, but I want the one that Frodo carried). Failing that, someone could get me a signed photo from Lindsay Wagner from the Bionic Woman at her Bionic50 page. She's got things up for sale to celebrate because it's been 50 years since the show aired (damn, I am old). I thought about buying myself one of those Facetime-for-an-hour experiences, but I have no idea what I would say to Lindsay Wagner for an hour. "Gee, I liked your show when I was 12, but I rewatched it recently and thought the writing was inane in the third season" probably is not a good conversation starter.

4) You are gifted with the services of a personal assistant for four hours. What would you ask your assistant to do?

A. Clean up my office or do the bookkeeping. There's not enough time for both, and in four hours she'd just make a little headway.

 

5) If literary characters were real, which one would you like to interview, and what would you ask?

A. I recently reread The Scarlett Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, so let's interview Hester Prynne and find out why she went back to live out her sentence instead of staying in England with her daughter.

Thank you for playing! Please come back next week.

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