Charlotte’s Web
MF movie with a whale in it?
Free Willy.
Favorite Richard Dreyfuss movie.
Jaws
MF movie with a Deaf or blind character.
Star Trek: First Contact (Geordi)
MF Patrick Stewart movie?
Dune
MF John Wayne movie
The Shootist. No, it’s not his best movie, but it’s my favorite because I always liked how he chose to end his film career with that particular role/story.
MF song (any genre) recorded by a Caribbean artist.
Suddenly, Billy Ocean. Also, less obvious, Dennis Brown “Things in Life”
MF former Israeli head of state.
Golda Meir
MF hoax
Rivkah’ed again
The Clinton child slavery pizza pen
MF ruler of Russia/USSR
Lenin. Bear with me. Life in Imperialist Russia truly sucked. There was no middle class, and the peasantry was literally starving and quite a lot of it was homeless while the royal family lived in super-luxury. It was ripe for Marxism. There was a point when Lenin was a wide-eyed idealist, before he had any actual power. I like the young man who wanted to feed the peasantry, and was an anti-Imperialist rebel, not the old Oligarch.
MF work of socialist or communist literature. (Just your MF of the lot, even if you still don’t like it all that much over, say, the Federalist Papers.)
“The New Industrial State” by John Kenneth Galbraith
MF country that tried to buck American economic colonialism
France, I guess, despite its many flaws.
MF country that is now a US ally?
Canada, because they maintain a dry sense of humor and play designated driver while the US goes insane
Favorite way to make boring food interesting
Taking that really sweet blended yogurt, and using it as a pancake topping. Makes two foods that don’t work alone work excellently together.
If that doesn’t count, then I give you my mother’s mac & cheese recipe: sautee a chopped yellow onion, and dice 5 or so peeled Italian tomatoes (or buy a can of diced tomatoes). Layer cooked macaroni, sharp Cheddar, onion, and tomatoes in a casserole dish, and bake at 350’F for 30 minutes. It is addictively good. It is so not mac & cheese from a box.
MF book of the Harry Potter series.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. I liked subsequent books, but they got too detailed.
Most favorite James Bond book (note, not movie)?
I recently reread some of Ian Fleming’s books (hadn’t touched them for over 30 years) and have to say they’ve not aged particularly well, but in response to the question, Casino Royale.
MF venue for viewing graffiti
There were some warehouses close to where I used to work in downtown Durham NC that had graffiti done by art school students that I really liked, but those eventually got painted over. There was also a youth prison next to the NC Museum of Art in Raleigh that was decommissioned. They let graffiti artists do their thing to the emptied buildings, but those were eventually torn down, and the bricks were recycled into outdoor sculptures such as menhirs and arcs.
MF name for a body of water
Lake Bemidji.
Most favorite name for a monument.
The Washington Monument - a simple, elegant monument to a great man: https://washington-org.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/cherry-blossoms-along-tidal-basin-wamo_pbulci-domain-lib-of-congress.jpg
MF historic house?
Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England, birthplace of Shakespeare - had the UK equivalent of BBQ with brown sauce at the street market, visited the bard’s house, and saw how much shorter people were 450 years ago
favorite loud noise