Kzinti's Kouch

What is a physical feature you admire in both men and women, that you find yourself noticing or comparing when out and about? 

Posture. Someone can be average looking but have great posture, it makes them shine. Even pretty people can slouch. People with great posture are often very elegant.

Who is someone we've heard of who possesses this admirable feature?

Sarah Jessica Parker. She has a very Plain Jane style, yet she has great posture, which in my eyes, makes her a very attractive person.  

If you could "safely" explore an addictive or otherwise unhealthful or unsafe vice, which one would you choose and why?

Sex with razor blades? Geez, I don't know. Seeing the future through multiple Peyote trips? Mind enhancement through the use of LSD? This question leaves a lot to the imagination.

In which TV show currently airing would you like to be a regular character? Describe the character a bit.

Are there any good shows still on? CMT's "Trick My Truck" show. I would work on people's trucks and turn them into show rigs. I'd be able to do artistic and wonderful things for deserving people and all on TV. Either that or Private Practice, with Kate Walsh and I would be the pool boy.

If you could be a member of the opposite sex for a day, what you would try out?

Multiple orgasms. Just to see how many it would take to pop the top of my head off. (one, ta-hoo, tha-ree, <pop>) Also it would be fun to walk up to guys and talk to them. Then watch and see if they are talking to me or my chest. I know the answer to that one already, but it would still be a fun experiment to do. LOL

If you're reading this, you're TAGGED!!!!!!

Since I have been tied up at playing catch up the past few weeks (among other things) I haven't been able to get to this one. Emily probably thought I had forgotten, but alas, no. I wanted to give it some serious thought about my life and the music behind the scenes. What I basically went for here was songs released by year and which one best represents my life at that point. Also keep in mind that the ages listed are what I turned that year. So, here goes.

December 1967 - Born on a cold day a week before Christmas. This day would be the scourge of my life as people in my life would be so wrapped up (Christmas joke) in the season as to literally forget my brithday.

1969 - A Boy Named Sue, Johnny Cash
 Two years old. Not sure if this is what made me a scrapper, but my real name is Terry, not Terrance, but Terry. My Grandmother threatened to disown my Mother if she named me Terrance. Wanna fight about it? LOL

1975 - Kung Fu Fighting, Carl Douglas
 Eight years old. This was the height of kick-ass ass-kicking around our house. Youngest of three boys, we fought like three Mike Tysons after another piece of ear.

1975 - Ballroom Blitz, Sweet
 Eight years old. Same thing as above, a fight could break out between us brothers at any point. All it took was a look from the guy in the back and we'd start to attack and it would turn into a ballroom blitz.

1978 - We Are The Champions/We Will Rock You, Queen
 Eleven years old. Guess who was one of the smartest kids in school? We tested all through spelling, math and other subjects. Went as high as they'd let us test. We were the champions, my friend.

1978 - Come Sail Away, Styx
 Eleven years old. This song was the background for my life. Soothing rocking background, loud vocals, yet very restrained in the backbeat. I learned it was better to watch and listen than do otherwise. Became the advocte for the littler kids on the scene. Bullies beware.

1979 - The Logical Song, Supertramp
 Twelve years old. This was how I'd become jaded by the establishment. Teachers (adults for that matter) weren't as smart as they appeared and didn't always have all the right answers. Always the man, keeping me down.

1980 - Another Brick In The Wall, Pink Floyd
 Thirteen years old. Started Junior High and yes, became another brick in the wall. Still taking advanced classes, but no longer care about grades. Slacking my way through school. Only thing consisten about my grades were their inconsistency. Began hearing things like, "If only he would apply himself..." at Teacher's conferences.

1980 - Ride Like The Wind, Cristopher Cross
 Thirteen years old. Also the year I got my first ten speed bike. I rode that thing everywhere. And I mean everytwhere. Think we logged several hundred miles or more a year on our trips.

1981 - Another One Bites The Dust, Queen
 Fourteen years old. Coming back to the second year of Junior High School, found out that one of my best friends had died in a bike accident over the summer. He was out riding on a busy street, popped out between two cars right into traffic. Dead. Instantly. Things suddenly looked different for a lot of people. We were no longer invincible.

1984 - Break My Stride, Matthew Wilder
 Seventeen years old. Sophmore year of High School, sports nut. Played tennis, football, track and field and of course, wrestling. This was my theme song for wrestling. And nobody was going to hold me down.

1986 - That's What Friends Are For, Dionne Warwick, Elton John, and Gladys Knight
 Nineteen years old. Graduation from High School. This was the backdrop for entering the real world and leaning on each other as we made our way into the big wide world. Helping each other was just second nature. It's amazing how good friends are always there for you. Pick up the phone five years later and call them and it's like picking up our last conversation from where we last left off.

1987 - Here I Go Again, Whitesnake
 Twenty years old. Wound up buying my first house when I was nineteen, but the paperwork wasn't all done until I was almost twenty. I waited eight months for the paperwork to be signed off. Truly making it in the real world on my own.

1987 - (You Gotta) Fight For Your Right To Party, Beastie Boys
 Twenty years old. Of course, having my own house meant that everyone wanted to come over and party there. It was rough and I almost ended up fighting for my right to NOT party and have some time to myself.

Things I am Loathing today:

• Fighting and arguing. It's teh suck.
• Working 12 hour shifts all week
• Having to email the boss's boss's boss's boss's boss's boss's right hand man to get things done
• Not having time to tie in with my counterpart at work about an important project.
• Wife's computer dying a slow and painful death
• Our bed. It's got potholes. Big ones.
• Cockroaches. Big, ugly, furry black ones with huge bug eyes... 

Things I am Loving today:

• Staying up until the wee hours just talking with my best friend, my wife.
• Making sub sandwiches for lunch
• No Poop Fairy visits! Yay!!!
• Wookie Girl, Trash. Oh yeah!
• My shoes have arrived! Holy crap, what torture waiting until midnight...
• Beds with lifetime warranties that cover replacement.
• My Cutco Spreader. Man, if I was on an island, this would be the one tool I'd take.
• Thick sliced double smoked bacon.
• VOX Neighbors who always have a kind word to say.
• Monkeys. Just can NOT get enough of them in any shape or form.
• The Muppets. Please come back to us the way you were...

Because infections come when you don't drain the ooze away...

• With gas prices rising quickly, $0.40 last 30 days, people around the world hating us, the crazy things we do with food, our whole "Better than thou" attitude as a Country, I think we are finally beginning to understand what it's like to be French. Now, if only we'd run from war and remove our troops from overseas and then we'd be all set to run the French flag up the pole.
• I saw the movie Brick and it was completely different than what I thought. But in spite of that, I thought it was a very interesting premise. Still, why did the guy keep going back to get his ass kicked? Over and over and over and over.... I alos saw the movie How to Make An American Quilt. All I could think of was Queen of Fractal Beauty... LOL, how funny is that?
• One thing I've noticed working where I do, growing old is mandatory, almost a requirement for some people to age faster than others. But the growing up part, that is what escapes a whooooole lot of people here. Why is it that a 55 year old man has the same attitude as a 15 year old? Just makes me want to smack him and send him to his room to think about it...
• I don't know what is worse. The fact that there is an actual Soup Nazi, that Jerry Seinfeld did a whole episode about him, or that I'm blogging about there actually being one and that Jerry Seinfeld did a whole episode about him. It's like watching yourself on TV, watching yourself on TV, watching yourself...... I think I broke the space-time continuum. Where's the Doctor when you need him?
• Why don't they make tools out of kevlar? It's supposedly so tough. I want to see a pair of channel lock pliers that the kids use to tighten up something on their car, toss in the grass, leave all summer, find them by running them over with the lawnmower and still be able to use again with no rusting involved. Go ahead plastics God, impress me.
• I have big feet. No mystery there, I'm a big guy, I have big feet. Why is it that when I call stores that are supposedly in business to sell shoes to people with big feet, everyone is incredulous that I would want my size shoe. Let's just say that for some reason, the average shoe store sells a size 13 or 14 maximum. WTF? Aren't you a sports shoe store? Don't you cater to big footsied people like myself? Looks like the caterer forgot the roast beef but remembered the shrimp... 
• Myanmar. Shit. Let's just send in handguns to the people and they can get their own relief from the Dick-tators who are running the place. Nuf said.
• Danica Patrick. Charles Buckman. Woman driver or stupid guy? Ehhh... I vote for the stupid guy. Who else would walk into traffic, especially cars that are built to go 200 MPH+...
• I read an investment article about the financial condition of the US today. His advice for those who have money to invest? Buy food. His predictions are that the cost of food will skyrocket in the next six months to a year and that money invested in food today, will be money saved x2 tomorrow. Interesting take on economics. I guess you'd technically be offsetting a large percentage of cost by stocking up the larder, more so than the 3 or 4 percent you'd get on a CD at the bank. So, I'm going to take my economic stimulus package and hike it to the store for some major stocking up. I'm going to retire on food futures in my own cupboard!