My and the Heiress’s 30th wedding anniversary.
YMF thing you hope for in 2021?
That if I die in my sleep, nobody heroically wakes me. Dying is something I only want to go through once. Which is apparently the minimum
Pass.
Pass on, you mean…?
YMF painting?
I meant I didn’t want to make the decision to continue endlessly into the future. The thread, that is.
A Grigorescu I saw in a museum in Iasi.
Fav sculpyutr
Daniel Chester French’s seated Lincoln: Statue of Abraham Lincoln (Lincoln Memorial) - Wikipedia
YMF song since 2000?
on-line monopoly, even though it’s easy to win 90%
Fav MLB team
Toronto Blue Jays.
Favorite NFL team?
Whoeveer has a chance to beat the Patriots
Fav film you saw this year
Hamilton, the filmed version of the musical. Good stuff.
YMF American Framer?
James Madison
YMF autobiography
The Garner Files: A Memoir. James Garner told some awesome, funny stories about his career, and came across as humble and self-deprecating.
YMF actor from the black-and-white film era?
Irene Dunne
YMF non-human actor
ALF
Fav Muslim
Steven Demetre Georgiou…aka Cat Stevens…aka Yusuf Islam
YMF person who changed his/her name
Arnold Dorsey to Engelbert Humperdinck
YMF green vegetable
Green Beans.
YMF town/city outside the USA
Hargeisa, Somalia
Fav stranger you met traveling
I was walking in Paris, and a guy came up to me and said something in French. I speak a little French, but not much, but I was able to say “I don’t speak French very well.” He repeated what he had said, a little louder. So I repeated my response too. He was started to get really impatient with me and a little angry.
Turned out, the guy was another American tourist who had assumed I was French, just like I had assumed he was French. We had a good laugh over the situation. And I was able to answer his question, in English.
YMF childhood birthday gift?
A 10-speed bike. I rode everywhere.
YMF gift received as an adult?