Pop Quiz by R. Bentz Kirby
1.   What is your name?	Richard Bentz Kirby, Sr.
2.   How old are you?	45
3.   Where do you live?	Columbia, SC, USA
4.   What do you do for a living?	Practice law.
5.   Do you drive?	Yes.
6.   What do you do for joy?	That really is a hard question. Try to watch and appreciate my children. Play and sing guitar at church on Sunday mornings. Write.
7.   What is your pet peeve?   And how much does it weigh?  Does it sleep by the door?  Is it housebroken?	My pet peeve is not knowing what I want to do when I grow up. It lives in my head. It has made itself at home.
8.   Do you write, paint or play?  All at the same time?  (While juggling a dozen eggs and riding a unicycle?)	I write. Don't paint. Play guitar and with my children.
9.   Who is the most impressive character you've ever met?	That is a tough one. I know some brilliant lawyers. Harold Norse is pretty impressive. But the answer is probably someone you have never heard of. His name is George Haimbaugh. He is/was a law professor who was some kind of specialist during the war. He has been just about everywhere in the background. I think he was at the Trials at Nuermburg (sp?) and other great moments in history. Probably worked for the CIA. The absent minded professor. But absolutely brilliant and was there when big deals in history went down.
10.   Have you ever read, acted, performed, thrown up, etc. in public?	Yes to all of those.
11.  What piece of literature or art moved your soul to ecstatic waves of bliss?	The first thing that I recall was probably reading The Good Earth by Pearl Buck. I had to read it and resisted til the end. But when I started, I was mesmerized. After that I remember Catch 22, Of Time and the River, and On the Road.
12.  What was the first thing you ever encountered that made you realise that art is important?	Bob Dylan and then Jimi Hendrix. Really. After that, the Impressionists.
13.  Would you consider yourself an artist?  A good one?  Why or why not?	[...]
14.  What are your favorite things that have ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with anything else?	Nothing. Everything is connected. And it all came out of nothing. So, everything it everything and everything is nothing.
15.  What are your favorite things that have ABSOLUTELY everything to do with everything else?	See answer to no. 14. I am trying not to slip through any holes in the time space continum (sp). See Eintein's Dreams for further explanation.
16.  What's the meaning of life?	To leave some love living behind you by truly being kind to someone.
17.  Why?	Because that is all that really matters. See, I think it is, Matthew, Chapter 25, even if you are not Christian.
18.  True or false: the Three Stooges represent the apex of American cultural achievement.	I don't know, but I liked them when I was a kid.
19.  True or False: Shemp was funnier than the original Curly.	That is so false it is a bogus question.
20.  Who's da man?	Well, that is a hard one too. I have lots of heroes. If I could hang out with someone to hang out with for a day, it would probably be Jimmy Carter.
21.  What's your favorite word??	Love.