Pop Quiz by Patricia Elliot | |
1. What is your name? | Patricia Pat Ann Champney Elliott Marvin |
2. How old are you? | 50 |
3. Where do you live? | Lawrence, Kansas, USA |
4. What do you do for a living? | Secretary at the Physics and Astronomy Dept., Asbestos inspector, Recycling consultant, baker, landlord, and I sell junk. |
5. Do you drive? | I love to drive. |
6. What do you do for joy? | Sex, reading, writing, cooking, mothering. |
7. What is your pet peeve? And how much does it weigh? Does it sleep by the door? Is it housebroken? | Tail gaters, people who mind other peoples business. |
8. Do you write, paint or play? All at the same time? (While juggling a dozen eggs and riding a unicycle?) | I love reading most of all. I write but most of it is journal or small poems of the moment. |
9. Who is the most impressive character you've ever met? | Bill Hatke, but I have been allowed to meet some of my heros, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Ken Kesey, Tim Leary, David Ohle. |
10. Have you ever read, acted, performed, thrown up, etc. in public? | Yes, I have read my journal on occasions. |
11. What piece of literature or art moved your soul to ecstatic waves of bliss? | Blake's writings, too too many, my head is beginning to swirl. The introduction to Queer and Western Lands (by WSB) are some of my favorites but then I remember when I first read Hardy, devoured his available works by reading nonstop for a week. |
12. What was the first thing you ever encountered that made you realise that art is important? | A banjo player in my dad's living room when I was 8. |
13. Would you consider yourself an artist? A good one? Why or why not? | Yes, I am probably too sentimental. |
14. What are your favorite things that have ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with anything else? | Romantic John Wayne movies, such as Shepard of the Hills, Stage Coach, etc. |
15. What are your favorite things that have ABSOLUTELY everything to do with everything else? | My present life, the acts of loving my husband and daughter and being loved and life being so full of joy. |
16. What's the meaning of life? | To move. |
17. Why? | It enriches our omeba content. |
18. True or false: the Three Stooges represent the apex of American cultural achievement. | Nope. |
19. True or False: Shemp was funnier than the original Curly. | [...] |
20. Who's da man? | William S. Burroughs |