PROMPT: Colleges

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What colleges have you attended?

Indiana University [IUPUI], Georgia Tech, and Georgia State.

PROMPT: Play

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Do you play in your daily life? What says “playtime” to you?

Yes. Frenetic and chaotic creativity.

PROMPT: Challenges

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What are your biggest challenges?

Finding the humor in the collapse of Western civilization.

PROMPT: Nostalgic

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What makes you feel nostalgic?

Reminders of my time in the military, particularly an overseas tour in England.

PROMPT: Sports Team

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If you started a sports team, what would the colors and mascot be?

The Chiaroscuro Churros. The colors would be black and white, and the mascot would be Jaime the Angry Churro, a ten foot high tasty Mexican dessert with rage issues.

PROMPT: Political Views

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How have your political views changed over time?

I’m far less intense in my belief, allowing more room for nuance. The biggest change is seeing the value in a dialectical competition of ideas that would benefit from all political parties being at their most competent and making their most sound arguments. Unfortunately, both political parties where I live are – each in its own way — complete and utter shit.

PROMPT: Perfect Space

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You get to build your perfect space for reading and writing. What’s it like?

Quiet, simple, and in other ways not distracting.

PROMPT: Favorite Automobile

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What is your all time favorite automobile?

I may be getting older, but I’m not old enough to concede to an “all-time” anything.

PROMPT: Creative

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How are you creative?

The answer depends upon stress.

If it’s, “How are YOU creative?” then I think the question is a little insulting and I wouldn’t dignify it with a response.

If: “How are you CREATIVE?” (then it’s missing a comma before the last word, but) I’ll just say, “Very well, thanks for asking.”

If: “How ARE you creative?” Then I’ll assume it’s as opposed to how I was creative in the past, and would reply, “Better, thanks for asking.”

If: “HOW are you creative?” The answer is, of course, “practice!”

PROMPT: Year You Were Born

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Share what you know about the year you were born.

I’m told Nixon was in the White House and the Beatles broke up, but I don’t really know anything about it. (If you want to get epistemological about it.)