From both Camassia and Candied Ginger, a fun meme: name five things that are overrated by the people you hang out with. (Or, things that most of your friends enjoy that mystify you.) Here’s mine:
1. Jazz. I grew up listening to folk and classical music (from my mother and father, respectively.) Sophomore year, college, I had a roommate who loved John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, and Dave Brubeck. Perhaps thanks to him, I developed a deep and abiding dislike for jazz. I don’t understand it. I can’t hum it. I don’t like music I can’t hum.
2. Cats. I know that many folks to whom I link — and many of my friends — are cat lovers. I don’t hate them, but I don’t love them. I have watched too many a cat torture too many an adorable rodent. As a devoted fan of mice, rats, chinchillas, degus, rabbits and birds, I have a hard time loving those who prey upon them.
3. Harry Potter. Read one book. It was nice, but no Chronicles of Narnia or Lord of the Rings.
4. Arguing politics. When I was a kid, I loved to debate. Now, I hate it. I’m the one at the family dinner table who, when things get heated over abortion or whatnot, interrupts the conversation to ask how cousin so-and-so’s marriage is working out. (I find that family gossip tends to be the best way of derailing an argument.)
5. Avocados and artichokes. I know, I’m a native Californian. I can’t stand either of them, so help me.
Can’t stand avocados and artichokes? That’s unamerican.
Wow, I’m completely unsympathetic on all five counts. Although I don’t listen to jazz that often, so maybe 4.5.
fun meme: name five things that are overrated by the people you hang out with. (Or, things that most of your friends enjoy that mystify you.) Here’s mine:
1: Barhopping - Spent a long time on afternoon shift getting off at 11pm. Got really burned out on the club scene.. In any case, most of the bars here have a pool table and a garage door.. Leave your weapons in your car, please…
2: Hunting - Got a closet full of guns, and land to hunt on, but can’t bring myself to shoot anything but beer cans.
3: Fishing - great when you are catching something.. painfully boring if your not.
4: The Beach - beachs here are too sandy, and the water too salty.. that’s enough for me.
5: Snakes as Pets - my son left two Ball Pythons here when he left home. Guess who has to feed them… (hint- the answer is not my wife , she’s scared to death of them)
Gotta call you on the avocados tho. My wife says they taste like ‘rotten pecans’ Yep, I don’t get that one either. I love ‘em.
No way man, read ALL the Harry Potter books! You better believe I will be at the bookstore at midnight on July 15th, getting my reserved copy.
“adorable rodent”?
I’ll give you an exception for chinchillas, but dude, rodents as a class? Black plague, famine, Pied Piper ring any ancestral bells for ya?
You don’t like Coltrane???!!!! Damn, Hugo! You do know he’s an offical saint, right? No Monk? Mingus? Parker? But you like Journey??!!! GAAHHH!!! You have pressed all by High Fidelity buttons with this one. And I’m right up there with d-rod on the artichokes and avacados; I just wolfed down a big bowlful of garlickly homemade guacamole last night!
(I should probably avoid mentioning the little four-legged presents my cat brings me….)
Hmn…
1. Vacations: Sometimes it takes so much work and energy to organize a vacation that I would much rather stay home and read a book
2. Parties: I’m not a recluse, but I detest having to make conversation with people that I absolutely have nothing in common with, will never see again, and I have no interest in.
3. Dogs: They scare me!
4. Cats: They are untrustworthy!
5. Television: I find T.V. is great when you have nothing better to do, but since I always have plenty to do,… I avoid it.
Predators need love too.
If you cut us do we not bleed? Oh, alright we may then scratch you, but it is just to prove a point.
Oh, I definitely think predators need love too. Don’t draw too many conclusions.
Wow, Hugo. I agree with almost everything on your list. In fact, I was nodding along to everything until I got to #5. I LOVE artichokes and avocados. Oh well, no one’s perfect. ;-)