Your MOST favourite....

This makes sense if you know that a cousin of mine is a microbiologist who worked on the Ebola vaccine team.

Anyway, I dreamed that she called me on the phone, and told me she’d just made a COVID-19 vaccine in her kitchen, and it worked. It was one of those brief “flash” dreams that wasn’t really a narrative, just some weird thing that goes through your head. Or mine, at any rate.

YMF actor who had made most or all of his/her films before you were very old-- in other words, someone who’s major career had already passed before you were a regular filmgoer, and you mostly watched in retrospect, even if they made a couple of films after you were a filmgoer.

Bette Davis.

YMF silent film star?

Oooh – Nataliya Glan, as Miss Mend

Fav snowy-day activity

Building a snowwoman.

YMF rainy-day activity?

Curling up and cross stitching

YMF Sunny and warm day activity?

Eating an Eskimo Pie on a busy park bench

Fav name of a US senator in the 50s

Bourke Blakemore Hickenlooper, senator from Iowa from 1945-1969.

YMF 19th Century politician?

Pinckney Pinchback, Louisiana’s first black governor, served for five weeks in 1872

Fav brand of car tires

Bridgestone– had the best luck with them honoring road hazard warranties, and getting them honored at other than the location where I originally bought the tire-- like in another state.

YMF place to get your car worked on.

(When he was alive) My dad’s garage. I learned how cars worked and he really helped me expand my blue vocabulary.

YMF Radio station to listen to in the car

NPR

YMF piece of classical music.

For flute solo, I’m partial to Georges Hue’s “Nocturne”. For full ensemble, I could listen to Holst’s “The Planets” all day long.

YMF opera?

Only seen one with all the fixins, Il Trovattore, with Placido and Montserrat, so I guesss that would be it.

Fav after-school TV/radio show

Star Trek, the original.

YMF after-school snack?

Graham crackers and milk

Fav debate interruption

“Shush”

YMF thing about Europe?

Castles! Real, authentic castles! (and fortified cities, monasteries, etc…) All the stuff I fantasized about seeing while playing D&D and reading LOTR as a kid. (Favorites include Windsor castle, Mont-St-Michel, Carcassonne (I proposed to my wife there))

YMF thing about North America?

Democracy (as endangered as it sometimes seems to be these days).

YMF thing about Africa?

Something about Africa makes me feel like I’ve returned to where I belong

Fav thing about early morning

Birdsong just outside my window, when I hear it.

YMF thing about Asia?