Pop Quiz by Cheryl Cudmore | |
1. What is your name? |
Cheryl Anne Cudmore, pronounced: [SHErill ennn merrrry marGRIT muhgwiggin muhklaaarn kuhdmor] |
2. How old are you? | Ich wart neinzehn jahren & singen und tanzen to der Oompahband und trinken die Bier im München Hofbrauhaus when j.m. got his first diaper muddy. Jawohl! (Ich? Itch?) How's my Deutsch? |
3. Where do you live? | Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada |
4. What do you do for a living? |
To earn money, I care seasonally for the children of
refugees who attend English second language classes
at the local college. I do graphic design on a part-time
freelance basis on contract. I paint, illustrate and do
photography some of which sells. I write poetry which
might sell one day.
I'm a wife, mother and homemaker. |
5. Do you drive? | I regret to admit I do so get outta the way. |
6. What do you do for joy? | I love to be creative: think, write, paint, compose, conceptualize. I love to consume art: music, visual, performance, dance, literature. I love when I'm high with ideas and they flow out of me. I love my son and my husband and making them happy. I love swimming a kilometer a day with my swimming buddies. I love sweating in the sauna. |
7. What is your pet peeve? And how much does it weigh? Does it sleep by the door? Is it housebroken? | I hate insufferably bitchy people especially anti-profanity crusaders. They drive me bonkers. |
8. Do you write, paint or play? All at the same time? (While juggling a dozen eggs and riding a unicycle?) | I do. I do. I try + yo-yo and crafting balloon animals. |
9. Who is the most impressive character you've ever met? |
My son is pretty impressive to me. The very first person who I believed when he told me: "You will be whatever you design yourself to be." |
10. Have you ever read, acted, performed, thrown up, etc. in public? | I have read in public. I have acted and performed in public with much reluctance. My son threw up on me in public. I wasn't impressed with him that time. |
11. What piece of literature or art moved your soul to ecstatic waves of bliss? | The Beatles, SPLHCB album. |
12. What was the first thing you ever encountered that made you realise that art is important? | the delivery room |
13. Would you consider yourself an artist? A good one? Why or why not? | I do. Iam. It is. |
14. What are your favorite things that have ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with anything else? | garnish |
15. What are your favorite things that have ABSOLUTELY everything to do with everything else? | here and now |
16. What's the meaning of life? | oneness of being |
17. Why? | it just is |
18. True or false: the Three Stooges represent the apex of American cultural achievement. | I'm going to say the Apollo moon walks and the Mir space station are unquestionably the apex of American cultural achievement because they are outward and forward-reaching and they represent America as a culture alive with a searching, pioneering spirit. |
19. True or False: Shemp was funnier than the original Curly. | John Belucci was slightly funnier than John Candy. |
20. Who's da man? | Mirza Husayn `Alí |