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What words can you not take seriously anymore?

For me, it's the word Arbiter. I've heard that word spoken by a Microsoft Sam voice so many times that it makes me laugh.

You mean an arbiter isn't someone who dines at Arby's?

The word that jumps to mind first is "Republican", but only in the USA.

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Innovative. It's used to apply to virtually anything that is trying to be sold to you.

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Rad/radical, gnarly. Extra points if i hear a relative say it


What thing should you wash more often than you do?

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Meaningless word -
Organic


Wash -
My dog
He has skin allergies so I can't groom him often


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Definitely my car. It's desperately in need of a wash right now!

What song instantly transports you back to a moment in your childhood?

The music box version of "Greensleeves" that the Mr Whippy van played.

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There's lots but Dire Straits' Sultans of Swing always takes me back to being driven to school by my mum aged around 8. Watching the fields go by from the back seat.

Tasmin Archer's Sleeping Satellite or The Strangler's Golden Brown reminds me of being in bed with insomnia, listening to the radio in the middle of the night when I was about 12. Those two songs always seemed to be on in the night.

REM's Losing My Religion is a song I used to hear on the radio of a factory opposite my house when I was about 15. I'd be sat in my room on my computer with the window open on a hot day and it would waft across the road. Takes me right back, that does.

Do you ever go back and visit the place/places you grew up? If so, do you know why?

New Kid in Town (Eagles) - On New Year's Eve the radio station used to play the Top 100 songs of the year. I remember hearing this one as I was making a bird feeder from a milk carton, to hang in a big tree across from our (closed, covered, iced-and-snowed-upon) swimming pool. It was one of those cloudy winter days with a light snow which beget you to go outside. I marched across the pool to hang my bird feeder, without thinking that I could have fallen through. Then I heard the song again as I was tucked in bed in the dark with the glow of the red numbers on my clock radio, and the multicoloured Christmas lights on my little bedroom tree named Freddy. I assume it was 1976 or whatever year the album came out.


Also Blinded by the Light (Manfred Mann) - When my dad taught me how to skate. We drove home in a snow squall and this song was playing as I hunkered down in the back seat with my blanket and some hot chocolate.


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I go to some of the places I grew up, trying to remember things I probably shouldn't but also for sensory reasons.



Do you ever wish someone would send you ghost stories about castles?

I get plenty from supernatural documentaries.

What are some books you believe deserve to be burned more than what the church believes should be burned?

For me, anything Ayn Rand ever wrote plus anything that romanticizes genocide and xenophobia.

I agree but I worry about destroying hateful books because if taught properly they can serve as learning tools against hate, and we don't want to create the false impression that we are free of hateful ideology.

Where would you like to live if your regular obligations and money were no object?

I'd buy Witley Park (formerly Lea Park) near Godalming in Surrey, destroy the McMansion built there by the last but one owner and restore the follies of James Whitaker Wright.

Do you ever feel guilt and shame for not sending people ghost stories about castles?

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I didn't, but now I am starting to.

What is your favorite season and why?

Spring.
That's when clothing becomes unnecessary.
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Currently, fall. Because it's what's next. Ask me in two months and I'll say winter. I just get tired of the present.

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