The Colbert Questionert

Oh, how fun! I just found "The Colbert Questionert" via Michael at Orange Crate Art (his answers).

Please, take it too and share your answers, okay?

1. Best sandwich?

   BLT, on thick sourdough toast, with a slab of cold iceberg lettuce, tomatoes warm from the garden, (mayo, of course, but not too, too much), and bacon spitting hot fat--
   possibly needing to be eaten while standing over a sink to catch the drips, or outside by the hose to wash off.
   
   On the side, a beer, or an orange pop. Or water from the hose.
   

2. What's one thing you own that you really should throw out?
   
   That one pair of underpants... Why do I still wear it? What if I'm in an accident!?!?!
   I am going to throw it out NOW.
   
   [Honest--I went and got it out of my underwear drawer. The waistband is worn down to the elastic, with a gaping hole on one side. It will make a beautiful rag.]
   
   Also, I would like to throw out my attachment to sugar, which seems to own me.
   

3. What is the scariest animal?
   Well, obviously, humans.
   
   But after that, bears, ever since watching Grizzly Man (2005 documentary about a guy who gets eaten by a bear). To a bear, we are just a larger-than-average salmon.
   

4. Apples or oranges?
   
   Oranges! Oranges, oranges, oranges!
   
   "Does Christmas smell like oranges to you?" --Nashville
   Indeed it does.
   

5. Have you ever asked someone for their autograph?
   
   Um, I think only for pay––at a Star Trek con.
   I paid for George Takei (Mr. Sulu, the navigator of the Enterprise) to sign a photo, and I asked him to inscribe it to my sister and her soon-to-be wife in 2008, when California legalized gay marriage. They were going to be married in San Francisco, and Takei and his partner were to be married that fall too.
   

6. What do you think happens when we die?
   
   We become soil. Life goes on.
   

7. Favorite action movie?
   A couple of my favorite movies happen to be action movies: The Seven Samurai, and Galaxy Quest.
   

8. Favorite smell?
   Oranges!
   

9. Least favorite smell?
   Febreze & its ilk (Downy Fabric Softener, etc.).
   

   "The Floral & Sweet Collection from Febreze removes odors and fills your home with scents straight from the garden."

   Yes, The Flowers of Evil, from the Garden of Capitalist Hell.
   
   My answer may be influenced from staying in an Airbnb that washes its sheets in this carcinogenic neurotoxin.
   
   I object to everything about it, including that the odor literally keeps me from sleeping--my body registers it as dangerous, and I keep waking up.
    I washed the sheets & pillowcases in the morning with no laundry products, and that helped for the second night.
   

10. Exercise: worth it?
    
    I don't understand this question.
    

11. Flat or sparkling?
    Flat. Tap water, room temperature is fine by me.
    In a glass.
    When and why did we start paying for water in plastic bottles?
    

12. Most used app on your phone?
    Safari.
    Hm. That makes me think, I should download Firefox or something.
    

13. You get one song to listen to for the rest of your life: what is it?
    
    "Islands in the Stream", by Dolly Parton, her duet with & Kenny Rogers.
    I love their harmonizing and the simple beat--Marz says it's the "baby rhino beat". (I don't know music, it's 4/4, plunk, plunk, plunk--it's great!)
    
    "This could be the year for the real thing."
    
    In real life, this would drive me crazy after a while, but I do love it and can listen to it over and over.
    Also, I love Dolly Parton.
    

14. What number am I thinking of?
    
    That number.
    

15. Describe the rest of your life in 5 words?
    
    Death, disease, destruction, horror, * conversation.

    Cheating a bit here. "Death disease, ...." that's Capt. Kirk describing war, which will stay with us in one form or another, (“The poor you will always have with you” (Matthew 26:11)),
    and we (I) will continue to (need to) rise to the challenge.
    How?
    In my case, by means of conversation, in the broadest, wildest senses (including blogging); conversations which is also [one of life's] greatest pleasures and redeeming features.
    
    Here's Seth MacFarlane doing a pretty good imitation of Kirk saying that
    :www.reddit.com/r/startrek/comments/bnasn/seth_macfarlane_does_an_impeccable_captain_kirk