What fascinates you? Aside from everyday celebrity gossip, news about family and friends, and the latest plot developments on your favorite show, what are you dying to know more about? What things do you google when you should be working? What things do you want to take a class to learn more about? What things are worth an extra trip to the bookstore?
What captures your imagination?
I'm into:
The Mafia, The Godfather, Al Pacino
New Orleans, voodoo, Cajun and Creole culture, Marie LaVeau, the “laissez les bons temps rouler” way of life
Western Civ—ancient Greece and Rome, the spread of Christianity, the Middle Ages, the Crusades, the Plague, the Renaissance, the Protestant Reformation, the Enlightenment, the American Revolution, the French Revolution, Industrialization, WWI, WWII
England, history of the English language, kings and queens of England, the Elizabethan Era, the Victorian Era, Canterbury Tales, Jane Austen novels, issues of class and social hierarchy
Romantic poetry, early Modern poetry, Hopkins, Whitman, Hardy
Epidemics, infectious diseases, cholera, diphtheria, tuberculosis, viral hemorrhagic fevers (like Ebola, Marburg, dengue, yellow fever), public health
Television commercials, jingles, branding, product placement
Now your turn. Share.
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5 comments:
Aside from everyday celebrity gossip??? Ooohh, that's hard.
I've actually been trying to think about it for a while (I read this a few days ago). As I type this I realize I've already forgotten half the list I was going to write, but here's what I can remember:
Art--anything crafty really, greeting cards, types of hand writings, different kinds of people and their "stories", murders/crime (I know that's weird, but I'm always interested in the facts--the who, what, when, where, and most importantly--the why), numbers/math, different types of dance, weddings, old houses and their potential, and...
Yea, that's all I can remember right now. Nothing that fascinates me is textbook-ish at all. Does that mean I'm shallow? Hmmm...
you aren't shallow. there's nothing shallow about math.
Murders...i didn't know that about you. that's a good one. do you watch court TV?
I don't watch court tv mostly b/c I don't have much tv time that's not already allotted to my must-see shows. I don't do much flipping through channels. I did kill a whole morning the other day catching up about the Mary Winkler trial. Not sure why. I had tons to do. But I just couldn't stop reading about how she just shot her husband. In Selmer, TN. Weird.
Sometimes I look at the killers' mugshots on thesmokinggun.com and try to find their stories. That is so weird and creepy. What is wrong with me?
Hey, I just read your "analyze this" though. Totally agree about the watermelon.
I saw an interesting TV special once on the fruit cocktail cup. Did you know you can't technically call a bowl of fruit "fruit cocktail" unless you have the right ratio of soggy fruits? Yea, it's something like a whole lot of peaches, (pears?), a few grapes, and one cherry. (Or whatever the correct fruits are.) So don't ever cross your fingers in hopes of getting that awesome fruit cocktail cup that has two strawberries (or cherries) instead of one cause it's never gonna happen. It wouldn't be fruit cocktail then.
I also agreed with your MySpace thought. There's nothing I hate more than a profile set to private. Well, maybe there's a few things I hate more, but that really gets under my skin too.
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