Do you have any questions you never ask anybody? Something too impolite? Too esoteric or downright weird?
Ask them to me.
We're a week away from my birthday. On September 4th I'm going to celebrate with my big R.A.Q., the antithesis of a Frequently Asked Questions page. The day will be devoted to Rarely Asked Questions. The R.A.Q. is your questions and my best efforts to answer them.
It starts here. Ask every darned thing you want in the Comments of this post. Ask what Caesar thought Brutus was up to right before the stabbing and why gravity is such a weak force. Ask what I watched on TV last night and how many blows with a pillow it would take to slay a moose. Ask me whatever you never get the gall to ask anyone else.
Why do humans like things that make our tongue hurt, such as chilis, wasabi, cilantro and curry? (This was a post-sushi question.)
ReplyDeleteDo you think that Gilligan and Mary Ann ever 'hooked up' while trapped together on that island?
ReplyDeleteWhy do so many people think "Seinfeld" was a funny show?
ReplyDeleteHow do you get by without a dayjob, you lucky so&so? :-)
ReplyDeleteWhat, to your knowledge, is something astonishing you can do with your body that few others in your current social circle can?
ReplyDeleteie: make your belly button whistle, pick up dimes with your toes, heal lepers, things like that....
Happy almost birthday!!
If you had to choose between a) flashing a crowd of complete strangers ... at an elementary school, or b) watching the entire "Jersey Shore" TV series back to back in one marathon session, which would you pick?
ReplyDeleteWhy is it, "The Bathroom Monologues"?
ReplyDeleteIs it true if you malted milk balls while drinking beer you won't get drunk?
ReplyDeleteWhy was Tinkerbell so infatuated by Peter Pan? ^_^
ReplyDeleteOops my keyboard has a mind of its own, that should read Why is Tinkerbell so infatuated with Peter Pan?
ReplyDeleteWhat three authors (living or dead) would you most like to spend the day with? What would you spend the day doing? Would you take any of them to a carnival?
ReplyDeleteWould you create a unique language in your books if you knew that 20 years from now hundreds of your fans would greet you in that language at conventions? Be married in ceremonies where they only spoke that language?
Who would win in a fistfight, Sherlock Holmes or C. Auguste Dupin?
You win the lottery, and have $150 million dollars. What do you do the first day?
As you edit your novel, how often (approximately) do you decide to completely rewrite a paragraph or page or chapter vs. touching up existing work? At what stage(s) during the editing process do you like to ask a reader to read for you and provide feedback?
ReplyDeleteI'll come up with some out of bounds questions later, for now just these conventional ones . . . thanks John.
I have a question that's not so much rarely asked as it is rarely [adequately] answered: WTF?
ReplyDeleteWhat book would you like to live in? Who would you be? Why?
ReplyDeleteWhat movie would you like to live in? Who would you be? Why?
Who, what, when, where, why is Bruno Mars?
What does your bathroom look like? (interpret the question as you wish)
ReplyDeleteSince my verification word is "unitypen" I ask you: if there was a pen that could unite the whole world, what would it look like? How would it work? What about its effects?
Do I get to think of other Qs and post them later?
The moose question has been bothering me for two days. How many blows with a pillow *does* it take to slay a moose?
ReplyDeleteI second Harry's question.
ReplyDeleteBut also, what is the most mysterious number?
What's one question were you hoping no one would ask? And what's the answer?
ReplyDeleteWhat's one book/movie that is so good you wish you had written it?
Last one, I promise!
ReplyDeleteYou can stick any two comic book characters into an elevator. The elevator is stopped, stuck between floors for four hours. They have no way to escape. You get to eavesdrop on their conversation. Who do you choose, and why? Any memorable conversation points?