The Meme That Tells All

Posted on April 19, 2005 in Memes

Elkit tagged me and now I have a screaming meme to answer. And this one gets ever so personal. It’s all the dirty details that I might normally not want to share. But I shall answer them bravely — lying where necessary.

• Three Names You Go By: Joel, Joelie, Mr. Sax
• Three Screen Names You Have: Emperor Norton, Peaceable Rhino, Leprosy (long ago — a personal statement on names like SweetNSexy)
• Three Things You Like About Yourself: Being kind and considerate to people who need it, being a poet and an experimenter with words, my beard.
• Three Things You Dislike About Yourself: My occasional sulleness, my lack of assertion with family and others, the shyness that manifests itself in intimate social situations.
• Three Parts of Your Heritage: (Oh God, WHICH three?) a Mormon polygamist, an Irish wild goose who settled in northern Italy (the Val d’Aosta), and a father who fought in the Second World War, one of the only three survivors of his company.
• Three Things That Scare You: Being rejected by others because I overact, certain bad dreams involving violence, and finding out that I have brain damage.
• Three Everyday Essentials: Lithium, Lamictal, and Glucophage.
• Three Things You Are Wearing Right Now: a blue workshirt, green cords, and black slipons.
• Three Favorite Bands/Artists: Aimee Mann, The Beatles, the Berlin Philharmonic
• Three Favorite Songs At Present: Trying to avoid thinking of any songs at the present. Long story there.
• Three Things You Want To Try/Do In The Next Twelve Months: Walk to the end of the Santiago Trail, submit my unseen poetry to literary magazines, go somewhere out of state.
• Three Things You Want In A Relationship: Understanding of my physical limits, kindness, and intimate friendship (as in truth-telling, not necessarily sex)
• Two Truths And A Lie: I graduated from Pomona College in 1980, I write poetry, and I won the Academy Award for Best Screenplay three years running.
• Three Physical Things About The Opposite Sex That Appeal To You: eyes, hair, and a well-functioning brain.
• Three Things You Just Can’t Do: Join the military, walk on three feet, ask Elkit to marry me.
• Three Favorite Hobbies: Collecting Day of the Dead figurines, writing, reading.
• Three Things I Want To Do Really Badly Right Now: Stop tormenting myself with this meme, sleep, and see just what book I bought today.
• Three Careers You Have Considered: Monk, Anthropologist, Lawyer.
• Three Kid’s Names You Have Considered: Martin, Alice, Boadicea
• Three Things You Want To Do before You Die: Visit India, win the Pulitzer Prize or some prize for my writing, teach at a university
• Three People Who Have To Take This Quiz Now: Hamburgerlad, Joe of beppeblog, and M. Luminous.