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Stealing: The Consider Yourself Meme
I’m far from the flag bearers. But liberals can claim this country as their own as well.
1) Of the various cultures, ethnicity or nationalities you belong to, which most strongly do you consider yourself? American. I can’t help it but I have always thought considering your nationality “I’m half Italian & half Irish sheep dog” as irrelevant unless of course you are a recent immigrant. My mother’s side of the family has lived in the US for five generations. My dad’s side four. So what difference does it where our my great-great-great-great-grandfather came from. Don’t get me wrong; I am as interested in researching genealogy as the next person. But I always respond “American” when asked.
2) Is there a culture you cannot claim heritage from but which you feel quite
I was so “thankful” for lox and bagels on Thanksgiving…
close to? I guess I’m going to have a hard time with this. Let’s talk food. I was raised with a lot of what people call “Jewish” food. Lox and cream cheese, white fish, kishka and lots more. Yet no one in my family has ever considered “Jewish” to be their religion.
3) What’s one language you wish you knew fluently? Hindi. So many of my customers are Indian and always discuss things in front of you in Hindi. I even got a hold of a Rosetta Stone
This is a random shot. I would never post a picture that had anything to do with work…
type of learning it. I recently downloaded an app that translates it. Much easier, but I haven’t played with it enough to get it to work. Perhaps today, now that I’ve thought of it.
4) If you could move anywhere in the world and be guaranteed a job, etc., where would you go? St. Martin. I’ve been to the Caribbean a half dozen times or more and I’d love this island the most.
5) If you had a time machine, and could witness any one event without altering or disturbing it, what would you want to see? JFK and Marilyn in the sack. How could you argue with this?
6) Have problems sleeping? I grew up having a lot of trouble sleeping. Then I discovered sex. I mean the type with someone else in the bed. There’s nothing like a good blowjob to lull you into a coma.
Johnnie and I’ve watched a lot of Super Bowls together. This was 2010 or 2011.
7) Are you free with your feelings? No I totally keep them in. Check out how many other Stealing player mention sex at all on their blogs. I know my family and friends know how much I love them. As a regular reader, you might be aware that WTIT lost one of its most important DJs. Johnnie Walker moved to Colorado in June. He found out about my wife and I separating a week before he left. He said, “If I knew this was going to happen I would have stayed. But he loves it there. I get an occasional text that says simply “miss you”. He left us in great shape however. We expect all of the current five to be here then.
8) What is the one outfit/piece of clothing/accessory you own that makes you feel incredibly good whenever you wear it? Why? I look so hot in my WTIT
I love it when I can reuse a pic rather than find one.
thong. Oops. Not a great visual, no? I don’t have an answer really. I’m most comfortable in jeans and a tee-shirt. I think that my best look is in a suit, but I hate ties. So unless I’m going to a wedding or a funeral there are no ties ever. I wore my favorite suit to my sister’s country club for Thanksgiving. There was mostly talk about my growing a goatee. I don’t think it’s my best look, but after the trauma of a wife saying, “I’m leaving you” without even another guy involved I needed a change. Not as big as a divorce, but still a change.
9) What do you do to make yourself feel better when you’re in a funk? Write long answers to meme questions. The reason that I started what still are the most popular weekend memes was to help give me a starting point to write. I don’t believe there are any memes with our amount of players is amazing. At the peak of memes was involved with five at once. That was way too much work.
10) Has anyone ever surprised you in a way that let you know you were special?
The Night Gary Returned..(Top) Bouncing Billy & Johnnie Walker. (Seated) Galloping Gary, Bud Weiser & Rock Rolling
How? I’ve only surprised (really surprised) was when my first wife hired a stripper for WTIT’s 20th Anniversary party. The second which is a better example of the answer for this question for me. It was Galloping Gary showing up at a recording session without anyone knowing his plan. He along with Bouncing Billy and me started WTIT. His last session was in 1982 at our fifteenth Anniversary Show. Facebook is how we got back in touch. He along with Johnnie Walker were the only friends who attended all three of my wedding receptions. But last year he did the surprise. He knocked and when I opened the door he simply asked, “We’re recording tonight, no?” So on this “magical” night four of the five original DJs recorded one last time.
11) When you are having a “good day,” how do you spread the happiness to others? I smile and engage the people I randomly meet, like in a convenience store.
12) What is one thing that puts you in a bad mood, no matter how good you were previously feeling? Racism. In my job I hear the “n” word at meetings. I’ve tried to stop it, but without going to the top I just have to speak out to the group. It doesn’t stop it and if I reported it my boss would lose his job. Not going to happen.
13) Would you rather live in a world with or without technology such as computers, cars, airplanes, bombs? Whoever asked this question sabotaged it. (I do recognize it on my watch thus my mistake that this question was originally edited, produced and stole for this thing called Stealing.) I mean when you throw “bombs” in it, it is a loaded question.
14) If you had to live without either heating in your house or air conditioning, which one would you keep? Please. What was I thinking? I did a lot of editing when I was there. I’m shocked that I did not edit or remove them.
15) If you had to own five dogs, what kind would you get? Virtual. I mean since I only own virtual pets like my beloved dog Happy. I could handle four more dogs. I mean as long as they are virtual.
Have a great two weeks. Next weekend we will be recording the final session of WTIT in 2015 on Friday night and I have been invited to a Star Trek holiday gathering on the deck of the Enterprise of “Star Trek: New Voyages” on Saturday. See you after that. Same time. Same blog.
Friday,” when retailers cut their prices and consumers flock to the stores. Did you score any “Black Friday” bargains? Is that why it’s called that? I thought it was about allowing African Americans to shop first. I mean, after all, they have never been treated fairly. I had thought, “Why isn’t there a “White Saturday?” This is one time that I’m glad I got it wrong. “Separate but equal” has never been equal. It’s only about the “separate” part.
sci-fi fan? Are there any sci-fi fans on your holiday gift list? Oh yes. You might have seen me on the set of “Star Trek: New Voyages”. I’m going back on December 5th for a “Holiday Trek Style” party. Oh, and I’ve been really supportive of a group that is WAY lower budget than “New Voyages”. Guess what? He wrote me the other day and told me to check Episode 9’s credits. I’m in there? How cool is that?
4) Feasting and football are also popular Thanksgiving weekend pastimes. Do your Thursday-Sunday plans include pigging out or watching a game? I watch my UConn Huskies get beat twice in two days. They aren’t this bad. Just a lot of new players.
with the cognac, which gives the gravy a nutty taste.) Do you have a signature dish? Yes. It’s called “Meatballs ala Budzolangaga” There’s a lot of Gorgonzola cheese involved and you have to let it cool down before the cheese hits those “meatballs”. I’ve been known to scream…
Thanksgiving 2015? The French Twins, my neighbor’s wife, being single again and toasting to women who have not found where they sell batteries…
came from both Germany and Spain. If you could travel to any foreign country in the world, which would you choose? England. They speak the right language and while I have crossed Abbey Road, I’d love to do more Beatles site seeing. I’ve already done all the touristy things.
We had a great time at my sister’s country club for Thanksgiving. It was just my mom and I, my sister’s longtime friend Judy and her husband and my sister Diane and her wife. We had a great time. And it was only two hours. I hate when a holiday drags on as though it’s a week. I hope you had as great one! And you and you and you and you and you and you and you! We shall return. To the Tape Radio WTIT Blog. Same time. Same blog. Peace and love…
I sell alcohol for a living. I do “God’s work” as I like to call it. The three busiest days for liquor stores are (in order) New Year’s Eve, Christmas Eve and the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. I try to help out at one of my my busiest stores. I enjoy it. I really do enjoy helping people find whatever they are looking for. Dealing with the public has its moments, however. Here is a classic example of what it is like to help the public. An elderly woman approached me while I was working on the day before Thanksgiving.
1) This song is about “the thrill of a lifetime” kind of love. Do you believe we each get one great love? Or do you think it’s possible to fall in love more than once? I have been in love with more than one person at the same time. In fact I think most people have, whether they acted upon it or not. Now lusting at two at the same time, that’s just hardcore fun.
guitars in the massive flood that hit Nashville. Tell us about a time when you had to clean up after Mother Nature. Two or three years into WTIT the studio that was in the basement rec room flooded. All the tapes were underwater. I thought they were lost and I was beside myself. WTIT & the tapes always wee the most valuable possessions of mine. It turned out that water does not erase tapes and after they dried out they were fine.
3) He is married to actress Kimberly Williams, who played Steve Martin’s daughter in the Father of the Bride movies. He has admitted he was a little in love with her before he met because he’d seen her on screen. Do you have a crush on anyone right now? Katie Nolan. She’s a 20 something woman who did a youtube thing called “Guyism Speed Round” which spoofed news and sports stories. Fox Sports hired her away and her main project is a 30-minute sports/comedy thing that is first shown at midnight on Wednesdays called “Garbage Time”. Another job for my Tivo.
5) Brad has developed his own line of western wear for Boot Barn, including some pricey items. (A “Perfect Storm” felt hat goes for $230.) What’s the most expensive item you’ve added to your wardrobe recently? I don’t wear expensive clothes. But I do buy them. The French twins were quite taken when I bought them designer nightgowns.
because it played so very often at a bar she frequents. What’s the last song you sang? “I’ll Feel a Whole Lot Better” by The Byrds.
