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... one brief shining moment ...

About Me


TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name: Doug
Birthday: One a year, usually.
Birthplace: I'm pretty sure it was very near my mother's location at the time.
Current Location: I'm not sure. If there are any windows, the rubber on the walls in here covers them up, and I can't seem to get my arms out of this jacket the nice men in white coats put on me.
Eye Color: Mostly white, with a black hole and a ring of some other color around that.
Hair Color: Increasingly grey.
Height: All the way down to the floor.
Right Handed or Left Handed: I have both.
Your Heritage: White.
The Shoes You Wore Today: Shoes? Shoes? No wonder the maitre d' was looking at me funny...
Your Weakness: Kryptonite.
Your Fears: Kryptonite.
Your Perfect Pizza: Kryptonite.
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: Survival. Or, failing that, taking the rest of the world with me.
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: "obstreperous polymorphism"
Thoughts First Waking Up: "Where are my slippers? And what's this manatee doing in my bed?"
Your Best Physical Feature: My spleen is particularly shapely.
Your Bedtime: Preferably shortly before I fall asleep. Definitely not after.
Your Most Missed Memory: Um ... I forget.
Pepsi or Coke: Well, it's kind of uncomfortable to snort Pepsi off a mirror.
MacDonalds or Burger King: Wendy's.
Single or Group Dates: I tend to eat dates one at a time.
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: It's "iced" tea, silly.
Chocolate or Vanilla: Vanilla is to chocolate as garnish is to entree.
Cappuccino or Coffee: Since cappuccino is partly made of coffee, this question poses a false dichotomy.
Do you Smoke: Only when I've been set on fire. And then as little as I can help.
Do you Swear: Only when I've been set on fire. And then as little as I can help.
Do you Sing: Only when I've been set on fire. And then as little as I can help.
Do you Shower Daily: Only when I've been set on fire. And then as little as I can help.
Have you Been in Love: Only when I've been set on fire. And then as little as I can help.
Do you want to go to College: Only when I've been set on fire. And then as little as I can help.
Do you want to get Married: Only when I've been set on fire. And then as little as I can help.
Do you belive in yourself: Only when I've been set on fire. And then as little as I can help.
Do you get Motion Sickness: Only when I've been set on fire. And then as little as I can help.
Do you think you are Attractive: Only when I've been set on fire. And then as little as I can help.
Are you a Health Freak: I'm a freak. Does that count?
Do you get along with your Parents: Yes, except when I've been set on fire.
Do you like Thunderstorms: The important question is, do thunderstorms like me?
Do you play an Instrument: The jackhammer dulcimer.
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: No, but I have drunk alcohol.
In the past month have you Smoked: Only when I've been set on fire. And then as little as I can help.
In the past month have you been on Drugs: Only when I've been set on fire. And then as little as I can help.
In the past month have you gone on a Date: Only when I've been set on fire. And then as little as I can help.
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: Only when I've been set on fire. And then as little as I can help.
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: In the past month? Heck, in the past twelve minutes!
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: Oh, I wish ...
In the past month have you been on Stage: If you know me, you know this is sort of like asking, "In the past month, have you inhaled?"
In the past month have you been Dumped: I try to avoid the back ends of dump trucks.
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: Only when I've been set on fire. And then as little as I can help.
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: Hearts.
Ever been Drunk: I sure hope not. I think I'd have to be pureed first, and I suspect that would be unpleasant.
Ever been called a Tease: Only when I've been set on fire. And then as little as I can help.
Ever been Beaten up: Yes, actually. And down.
Ever Shoplifted: Most shops are far too heavy for me to lift.
How do you want to Die: Only when I've been set on fire. And then as little as I can help.
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: Able to answer Surveys without Random Capitalization in the Questions.
What country would you most like to Visit: The land of the Oompa Loompas.
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: Chartreuse. Which is why I'm single.
Favourite Hair Color: Chartreuse. Which is why I'm single.
Short or Long Hair: One of each.
Height: Yes, I prefer someone who has a height. Otherwise, they seem so two-dimensional.
Weight: More than a brick, and less than a brick house.
Best Clothing Style: Absent.
Number of Drugs I have taken: I started counting, but then the walls turned furry and began to yodel greenly at the ambivalent violins in my cornflake sofa.
Number of CDs I own: Do you mean Compact Discs or Certificates of Deposit? The answers vary widely, accordingly.
Number of Piercings: You mean times I've been pierced, or times I've pierced others?
Number of Tattoos: As far as I know, there was only ever one -- Herve Villechaize.
Number of things in my Past I Regret: I started counting, but then the walls turned furry and began to yodel greenly at the ambivalent violins in my cornflake sofa.
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My Interests

theater, musicals, plays, drama;
libertarian politics, objectivism, mudita;
homesteading, thrift;
music (all kinds);
Scandinavia;
books, reading, literature, science fiction, fantasy, comics, writing;
cooking, sushi, chocolate

I'd like to meet:

People of intellect, integrity, imagination, inspiration, and other words starting with "i".

Music:

I've been told I'm "musically promiscuous" (though I hasten to add that that adjective applies to me only musically!)

A sampling (in no particular order):
Bette Midler
Black Sabbath
Sibelius
Billy Joel
The Smiths
The Singing Nun
Sarah Vaughan
The Kings Singers
Rush
Björk
Alison Kraus
MC Hammer
Rodgers & Hamerstein
The Weavers
Chanticleer
Jane Monheit
The Turtle Creek Chorale
Springsteen
The Sundays
Candlejack

... I think you get the idea.

Movies:

My life is rated R!

Your life is rated R!

What is your life rated? (MPAA Scale)

Take Other Caffeine Nebula QuizzesMy Top Ten (the order changes periodically):

1. Lord of the Rings (all three combined)
2. The Music Man
3. Babette's Feast
4. A Man for All Seasons
5. Casablanca
6. To Kill a Mockingbird
7. The Addams Family
8. Bringing Up Baby
9. Star Wars (the original one -- the one that was later renamed "A New Hope")
10. Big Eden

Books:

Anything by:
Tolkien
Ayn Rand
CS Lewis
Marilynne Robinson
Stephen Jay Gould
Douglas Hofstadter
JK Rowling
Susan Cooper
Robert Heinlein
Carol Goodman
CJ Cherryh
Jeff Lindsay
Chuck Palahniuk

and on and on and on ...

Heroes:

CS Lewis
Ayn Rand
St. Thomas More
Michael Callen
Winston Churchill
Thomas Jefferson

My Blog

Scary Poppins

Mary Poppins, reimagined as a horror movie.(Tip o' the hat to Towleroad.)...
Posted by doogers on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 08:44:00 PST

Theater Survey

Stolen from Tyson:  I usually don't DO these things - but.... LAST SHOW ADDED TO YOUR RESUME:Evita (media presentation/slideshow operator/impromptu Magaldi) LAST SHOW YOU AUDITIONED FOR:Over...
Posted by doogers on Sun, 26 Nov 2006 11:34:00 PST

"tiny, squeaky, and generally annoying"

                                    What Kind of Spoon are You?&n...
Posted by doogers on Sun, 12 Nov 2006 09:50:00 PST

Babe Ruth? Susan Sarandon?!??!!

On the other hand, Sean Bean I'll take ......
Posted by doogers on Sun, 15 Oct 2006 10:57:00 PST

"Enjoyable", "entertaining", and "lengthy"

Review of Camelot here or here....
Posted by doogers on Fri, 11 Aug 2006 11:00:00 PST

Tooth update

Despite my hands-shaking nervousness (which wasn't helped by the waiver they made me sign first, saying things like: if they needed to get at the tooth, they could cut open my cheek, dislocate my jaw,...
Posted by doogers on Fri, 14 Jul 2006 06:13:00 PST

Good drugs...

I've become an old man, droning on about my medical procedures ... I hit the hay last night extraordinarily early because I had a dentist appointment again at an ungodly early hour this morning, to pu...
Posted by doogers on Wed, 12 Jul 2006 08:05:00 PST

Finnish Railroad Seating Etiquette

  Espoolainen You scored 63 % awareness! The category name means a person who lives in the countryside. That's what you probably are, if you're Finnish. If you're not, then the etiquette i...
Posted by doogers on Wed, 26 Apr 2006 07:06:00 PST

Because St. Valentine's Day wasn't depressing enough ...

... I got to see Brokeback Mountain.  In case you don't know, this is the much-talked-about "gay cowboy movie."  It's that, certainly, but it's really so much more than that, too.  This...
Posted by doogers on Wed, 15 Feb 2006 05:33:00 PST

Nifty idea ...

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Posted by doogers on Mon, 13 Feb 2006 02:01:00 PST