Gacked from richardf8

[deckardcanine]

Comment on this post, and I will

1 - Tell you why I friended you.
2 - Associate you with a song/film.
3 - Tell a random fact about you.
4 - Tell a first memory about you.
5 - Associate you with a character/pairing.
6 - Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.
7 - Tell you my favourite user pic of yours [if it pertains].
8 - In retort, you must spread this disease in your LJ.

NOTE: If you disregard #8, I won't mind.

Comments

[stevenroy.livejournal.com]

Haw haw, I'm disregarding #8! (At least until I get more interesting friends!)

[deckardcanine.livejournal.com]

1. You friended me first, and I knew you enough to decide to return the favor.
2. "Khaddek Habbet Loulou," from your music video.
3. Your art is possibly the most psychedelic of any on my deviantART watch list.
4. I noticed you making a lot of posts on the Mynarski Forest Forum, with your big initials for an avatar.
5. Gargles. I should create something like your octolisk.
6. How old are you? I'm guessing 30-something.
7. The one marked "gatortake." I'm a sucker for cute.

Will all the Loupi like me, like me, like?

[stevenroy.livejournal.com]

I just wish I knew what that song meant. Think I should've learned a little Arabic before putting that video on YouTube? ...Naah, it's probably funnier when we don't know. (Like most of what goes on in the Middle East.)

Good guess about my age. I'll be turning 30 later this year. I'm planning to celebrate with a midlife crisis and/or some good old-fashioned flipping-out. And then cake.

Oh yeah, little Mistake on the gator. That's currently my favorite, too. Gotta love the cute!

Re: Will all the Loupi like me, like me, like?

[deckardcanine.livejournal.com]

I like hearing songs in languages I don't understand. But for some reason, I usually don't like songs in unintelligible English.

Later this year? And D.C. Simpson turns 30 in eight days. I figured you were older than him. Heh.

[tabeal.livejournal.com]

Alright, I'm Game.

[deckardcanine.livejournal.com]

1. Anyone from FurryChristians who friends me is okay in my book.
2. V for Vendetta.
3. You're my only LJ friend whom I know to have a Korean heritage.
4. I first noticed you on FC for the V graphic novel icon.
5. Oh, what the heck: V.
6. What's your Christian denomination, if any?
7. Andromeda. (Did you think I was going to say V again?)

[tabeal.livejournal.com]

hmm....My Christian denomination, Uhh, I believe the teachings of Brother Branham so I'm not apart of any denomination.

[-fairest.livejournal.com]

Go!

[deckardcanine.livejournal.com]

1. When someone makes me one of their first three LJ friends, it's hard to refuse.
2. "On Top of Spaghetti." Hey, you did remind me recently.
3. You are the only mother among my LJ friends, and I like it when you talk about your kids.
4. Oh, what's Red-Hot Riding Hood doing in my LJ?
5. Maybe Wendy Welding from On the Fastrack. She struggles to balance her career with her domestic life.
6. Can't think of any "always," but... how many jobs have you had?
7. Of the ones remaining, I'll say your fall picture.

[level-head.livejournal.com]

You didn't get many responses to this, did you?

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[deckardcanine.livejournal.com]

Okay, now that I have time:

1. Above all, your poetry.
2. Dragonheart.
3. There's something unusual about your leg joints, IIRC.
4. You were waxing eloquent in the rain_luong LJ.
5. Darth Vader. I think you understand.
6. Where'd you live before moving out of the home of your parent(s)/guardian(s)?
7. Your current default is nice.

[level-head.livejournal.com]

6. Where'd you live before moving out of the home of your parent(s)/guardian(s)?

I had both, in fact. I was placed with an aunt and uncle when a few weeks (?) old, in the Dearborn Michigan area. (The timeframe has always been a bit fuzzy in people's recollections.)

When retrieved by parents at about age 4, I went to Florida where I lived until moving to California in 1983. (I'd left home about age 14, but still lived within a hundred miles or so of the family home in Florida, which I much later bought.)

I have few memories of Michigan per se, but happy memories of my aunt and uncle. They are still alive -- and about to celebrate their 70th anniversary! -- and doing amazingly well.

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[deckardcanine.livejournal.com]

I'd like to learn why you left home so young. Are your memories of your parents less pleasant? Did they force you to leave? Or did you see a golden opportunity of some kind that required you to leave? Of course, if home is where the heart is, then "leaving home" must have been an unhappy occasion, however quickly you recovered.

You've probably been asked many times. If you'd rather not answer again, I won't demand it of you.

[level-head.livejournal.com]

It's no problem, nor was it an unpleasant episode. Beyond the paper route and amateur lawn mowing businesses I was doing at about age 10-12, I went to work for a grocery store close to the home at the latter age and worked their for two years. During this time, my parents separated and divorced; my mother ultimately left the state.

My father and brother and one other family member were living in a small place (the cottage behind the house). By 14, I'd rented a room in the back of the main house and was living more-or-less separately. And I was tall, and learned to drive early; I bought a 1956 Buick Special from an elderly neighbor for $10 and drove it, well, illegally.

I took an apartment behind the home of a friend, some twenty miles away, and drove to school; eventually dropping out in favor of working a third job. School was ... unchallenging mentally, and tedious socially.

But while school was more-or-less unpleasant in some respects, there was no particular anguish around the house. In fact, a few years later, my father and I rented a house together; hmm... I was 17 and in the fast food business.

That lasted for less than a year, but again was not an emotional problem; he simply had an opportunity and took it, and we both moved out in different directions. By that time, I was up to $100 cars; the high life indeed.

His opportunity was to live in a nice beach home in Palm Beach.

I visited. Nice place. No, I never met Eric Clapton; he was a later tenant of that same house. ];-)

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[deckardcanine.livejournal.com]

It helps me to keep in mind that this was several decades ago.

[deckardcanine.livejournal.com]

My implication is that people today don't grow up as fast as they did then, where responsibility is concerned.

[level-head.livejournal.com]

My situation was unusual then, and still is. I take your point, in general -- but you're talking about averages, and each of us individually is a data point. The fact that the average age of leaving the home may be increasing -- I'd guess this is true -- doesn't mean that stories like mine don't still happen every day.

Hmm. A related paper, not on point but interesting. Later childbearing ages in Europe.

(The paper's title, "Education and Age at First Birth," amused me. "Why, it's zero and zero, silly!")

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[deckardcanine.livejournal.com]

True, I must overcome the tyranny of statistical thinking. You know what they say about "the average person" with regard to sexual organs.

I think I've heard that 30 is the new 21. From my knowledge of peers and myself, this is more true than it used to be. I've also seen an article titled, "10 Is the New 15," which noted an increase in, among other things, dating in the tween years. So generally speaking, our culture is gaining privilege and losing responsibility at the same time. I suspect that eventually, barring a cause for directional shift, we'll all be acting 18.

[level-head.livejournal.com]

I think I've heard that 30 is the new 21.

In my head, Glinda from Wicked is singing "You know black
Is this year's pink."

So generally speaking, our culture is gaining privilege and losing responsibility at the same time.

You may be right. Doesn't sound good, does it?

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[level-head.livejournal.com]

It helps me to keep in mind that this was several decades ago.

Why is that? It's true enough -- but I don't think I understand your implication.

An aside: It might seem that such a high-falutin' place meant that the family was moneyed. To the contrary, the house was rented, and was a rather special deal because of some peculiar circumstances involving a ladyfriend of my father's. ];-)

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