A Moveable Beast
February 2009
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The Kinks - This Time Tomorrow.
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CSS - Art Bitch
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“Lennox Lewis, I’m coming for you man. My style is impetuous. My defense is impregnable, and I’m just ferocious. I want your heart. I want to eat his children. Praise be to Allah!”
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- who was subsequently KO’d by Lennox Lewis.
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“I actually thought we were going to run across the country,” Carpenter said. “I thought we’d get out of school a lot.”
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- Distance Runner Matt Carpenter, on why he was enthusiastic about joining his high school cross-country team.
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BY JOEL GUNZ
What is your mother’s maiden name?
What is your older sister’s favorite Monopoly game piece?
Who did your paternal grandfather vote for in the 1956 presidential election?
Why did you choose a liberal-arts degree when your entire family urged you to go into finance?
In what year did you begin working on your novel?
How many weeks away was graduation when you dropped out of college?
What was your score on the civil-service employment exam?
Where were you sitting when your girlfriend told you she was pregnant?
Where did you never end up going for your honeymoon?
In what year did you begin working for the post office?
What is the name of the hedge-fund manager your ex-wife married?
How many hours did it take you to drink that bottle of Jack Daniel’s yesterday?
What time was it when, in a drunken rage, you threw your novel into the fire?
If you could do it all over again, what would you do differently?
Oy. This quiz has me thinking I’d better start studying for the civil service exam. Perhaps I will start my new job at the post office on Bukowski’s birthday?
