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May 16, 2002

Thursday Threesome:
Onesome. Living. Livin’ La Vida Loca. Oh, for goodness sake. What pop song do you love to sing along with but don’t want to admit it?
When I want to sing along with something, I sing, darn it! Not well, mind you, and often not accurately; but if we weren’t meant to sing along with the radio, the U.S. Congress would have tried to pass some inane piece of legislation against it by now. I don’t care if the lyrics are silly. And I don’t really know any current pop songs. Yes, I exist in a radio-less, MP-3-less vacuum with nothing but my own extensive music collection to keep me company. I’ve not even got a sound card in my computer at home.

I love Thomas Dolby‘s Aliens Ate My Buick. I’ll sing along with just about anything on that disc. His song That’s Why People Fall In Love makes me laugh, because the first time I heard the chorus, I thought it sounded like he was singing, “That’s why white people fall in love” and I sat there wondering “What in the hell...?!??” I knew that wasn’t what he was singing...but get a copy of the song and give it a listen. You’ll see what I mean. And then you’ll never be able to listen to it again and keep a straight face all the way through.

Twosome. a Charmed. Charmed, did you say? Come now, are you superstitious? Do you buy into lucky charms and signs and such?
I’m not overly superstitious, but I know the power of symbols and suggestion. Never mind what people have done to others throughout history: you can harness your own subconscious and really give yourself a power boost. Heck, I’m in the process of making a Tarot deck! (All right, all right, I admit it, it’s mostly for fun. And yes, I call matching characters up to archetypes “fun”.)

I say I’m not overly superstitious because I may have a “lucky charm” or object. I have a statue of a dragon coiled up on a shelf in my room, and all scholarly thoughts aside, that guy gives me luck. I can break it down and explain that I like that particular statue because its expression and attitude conveys that each individual has power and the responsibility to use it wisely, and that is a core tenet of mine; but there’s probably atavistic luck-vibe-getting thoughts that lurk in my hindbrain, and likely always will.

Threesome. Life. Let’s play the game of Life. Or is it Monopoly? What is your all time favourite board game?
You know, I don’t think that I have one. No, wait, strike that. Chess. I know that this isn’t what the TT question writer was thinking about when they penned this question, but it’s my favourite game that requires a board-type playing surface (real or computerised).

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