Inside the Journalist's Studio

1. What is your favorite word?

Reaganesque

2. What is your least favorite word?

Liberal

3. What turns you on creatively, spiritually or emotionally?

A two-minute drill for a touchdown.

4. What turns you off creatively, spiritually or emotionally?

Paranoid college football coaches.

5. What sound or noise do you love?

The ocean surf.

6. What sound or noise do you hate?

Keith Olberman's voice.

7. What is your favorite curse word?

Shitfuck (tribute to Joe Schultz)

8. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?

Lunar module pilot on an Apollo mission

9. What profession would you not like to do?

Undertaker

10. If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?

"You're 20 years early ... go back home"

 

1. What is your favorite word?
Faith

2. What is your least favorite word?
Despair

3. What turns you on creatively, spiritually or emotionally?
Curiosity

4. What turns you off creatively, spiritually or emotionally?
Stagnancy

5. What sound or noise do you love?
Laughter

6. What sound or noise do you hate?
A woman crying

7. What is your favorite curse word?
Fuck

8. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?
Basketball coach

9. What profession would you not like to do?
Anything involving manual labor

10. If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?
"You got here the same way you did everything down there. By the skin of your teeth. I didn't expect anything different. Welcome home."

 

1. What is your favorite word? Penultimate. Really.

2. What is your least favorite word? Can't.

3. What turns you on creatively, spiritually or emotionally? Dreaming bigger dreams.

4. What turns you off creatively, spiritually or emotionally? Scut work.

5. What sound or noise do you love? My children laughing. Nothing better.

6. What sound or noise do you hate? My cat yakking.

7. What is your favorite curse word? Fuckbasket.

8. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt? Guitar player.

9. What profession would you not like to do? Road repair.

10. If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates? Hey, bud. Let's party! or .. a simple "welcome" would more than suffice.

 

Lono = Dead. To. Me.

 

1. What is your favorite word?
Quatrevingt
2. What is your least favorite word?
Impact (when used as a verb)
3. What turns you on creatively, spiritually or emotionally?
Working with good colleagues
4. What turns you off creatively, spiritually or emotionally?
Rudeness
5. What sound or noise do you love?
A violin playing really high and sweet
6. What sound or noise do you hate?
A clarinet squeaking
7. What is your favorite curse word?
Motherfucker
8. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?
Writing
9. What profession would you not like to do?
Waitress
10. If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?
Welcome. Mozart has written a new opera for you.

 

1. What is your favorite word? DAWN.
2. What is your least favorite word? UMM... NO, I MEAN UMM...
3. What turns you on creatively, spiritually or emotionally? THE OCEANFRONT. I MISS IT AND WISH I WOULD HAVE ENJOYED IT MORE GROWING UP SO CLOSE TO MONTEREY.
4. What turns you off creatively, spiritually or emotionally? STUPIDITY, IDIOCY.... THE UNINFORMED.
5. What sound or noise do you love? A TROUT BREAKING THE WATER, TAKING MY FLY AND THE ENSUING BATTLE — BACKWATER NATURE.
6. What sound or noise do you hate? REGURGITATION, PUKING, VOMITING
7. What is your favorite curse word? FUCK - IT'S SO FUCKING VERSATILE.
8. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt? COMEDY - I'D FAIL, BUT I'D LIKE TO GIVE IT A SHOT.
9. What profession would you not like to do? ANYTHING THAT CONSTANTLY INVOLVES DISGUSTING SMELLS - FROM LATRINE CLEANER TO GARBAGE MAN. KEEP MY NOSE CLEAN.
10. If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates? THERE'S A COLD ONE WAITING FOR YOU AT TABLE CLOUD 9.

 

1. What is your favorite word?
Home.
2. What is your least favorite word?
Alone.
3. What turns you on creatively, spiritually or emotionally?
Mild rage, for which creativity becomes an outlet or becomes bigger rage or, possibly, calm.
4. What turns you off creatively, spiritually or emotionally?
My own sense of defeatism.
5. What sound or noise do you love?
Jet engines, which explains my otherwise inexplicable desire to live in either

or in a beach-side cottage in

in the Netherlands Antilles.
6. What sound or noise do you hate?
Incessant bitching.
7. What is your favorite curse word?
Softcore: Balls. ("Balls! My computer crashed again!") Hardcore: Cocksmoker.
8. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?
Game show host, professional pitchman, vintner/brewer, member of traveling rodeo staff (though not clown or rider), ski bum, voiceover artist, hanger-on, airline pilot or trendsetter.
9. What profession would you not like to do?
Circus freak, political party operative, navel gazer, zoologist, police chief, greeting card writer, fashionista (-isto?), peddler or mortician.
10. If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?
"Welcome, my son."

 

1. What is your favorite word?
hope
2. What is your least favorite word?
never
3. What turns you on creatively, spiritually or emotionally?
rest
4. What turns you off creatively, spiritually or emotionally?
ignorance
5. What sound or noise do you love?
the crack of a beer
6. What sound or noise do you hate?
the police scanner
7. What is your favorite curse word?
fuck
8. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?
chef
9. What profession would you not like to do?
teacher
10. If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?
Welcome. Now go fetch me a beer Llama.

 

1. What is your favorite word?
Historical (not to be confused with historic.)
2. What is your least favorite word?
Authority.
3. What turns you on creatively, spiritually or emotionally?
Passion. Confidence. Travel plans.
4. What turns you off creatively, spiritually or emotionally?
Negative reinforcement. Intellectual incuriosity.
5. What sound or noise do you love?
Soft, steady rain in the morning. Thunder in the afternoon. Ocean waves at night. The crack of the bat, all day long.
6. What sound or noise do you hate?
Whining.
7. What is your favorite curse word?
Fuck.
8. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?
Middle reliever. Museum curator. Detective. Online-course professor. Librarian. Tattoo artist. Beatle.
9. What profession would you not like to do?
Lifeguard. Police officer.
10. If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?
Fooled 'em good, didn't we?

 

1. What is your favorite word?

Concrete

2. What is your least favorite word?

Privilege.

3. What turns you on creatively, spiritually or emotionally?

Being alone on the water at dawn.

4. What turns you off creatively, spiritually or emotionally?

Anything to do with money.

5. What sound or noise do you love?

Owls at night, loons in the distance, wind in the trees, rain on the roof.

6. What sound or noise do you hate?

Guns, cars, grownups screaming at kids.

7. What is your favorite curse word?

Motherfuckingcocksucker

8. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?

Hermit.

9. What profession would you not like to do?

Anything that requires wearing a tie, "slacks" and dress shoes

10. If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?

There's more.

 

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1. What is your favorite word?
sizzle
2. What is your least favorite word?
cigarette
3. What turns you on creatively, spiritually or emotionally?
sharing of ideas
4. What turns you off creatively, spiritually or emotionally?
selfishness
5. What sound or noise do you love?
My son's laugh
6. What sound or noise do you hate?
Someone saying 'I can't'
7. What is your favorite curse word?
Fuck
8. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?
Funny enough ... acting
9. What profession would you not like to do?
Surgeon
10. If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?
You were wrong, but, know what? You were a pretty good guy anyway. Come on in.