My Damn Opinion

So, elvenseeker posts this:
1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
2. I will respond by asking you 5 questions of a personal nature.
3. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will can include this as an offer to interview someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them 5 questions

*You can also just comment to ask 5 questions of your own if you don't want me to interview you*

And I just HAVE to say something. Now I have to answer some very good questions.

1. What is the most important quality you look for in friendships?
I guess I don't look for qualities in friendships. I just hang with people, and if they piss me off I stop talking to them. Not having had oodles and oodles of friends as a child, I don't put any restrictions on friendships.

2. The world is reduced to a post-apocalyptic state: what do you do and why?
Well, depends on the reason for the apocalypse. If it's more mundane reason, then I would set about trying to gather as many people together as I could, so that we could aid each other in survival. If it's a more fantastical reason, I would probably strike out on my own, or maybe with just a few people I really closely trusted.

3. You are chosen to compete in a MMA championship. What is your reaction?
My first reaction is "What brainchild chose my fat ass?", followed closely by the suspicion that I'm being set up, maybe start looking for Marsellus Wallace to call me in for a sit-down meeting. But if it all seems on the level, I would probably quit my job and focus on full time training, 8 hours a day. And upgrade my health insurance.

4. What song do you think best describes your life?
Freedom, by George Michael.

5. What one thing would you like to do most in your life?
I would love to get back to teaching martial arts, and learning martial arts. The two are not exclusive.

1. My username is _____ because ____.

My username is Mighty BakuDan, although that's sometimes expanded to Mighty Mighty BakuDan. This stems from a joke from waaaay back in the AWOL days, one that I barely remember but that referenced the Mighty Mighty Bosstones. I have stuck with it all these years because it's dang hard to find a recognizable but unique username out there on the internets, and in most places even plain ol' BakuDan is taken. I dropped one Mighty off the begnning because it started to be difficult to type that all the time. And most place won't let you make a username that's 19 characters long.

2. My name is _____ because _____.

My name BakuDan because that was given to me even further back in the AWOL days, when we had both myself and Durkin hanging about all the time. Katieya suggested it to remove confusion, because BakuDan means "bomb" or "explosive" in Japanese, and back in those days I was prone to violent outbursts when losing at video games, which is sadly pretty common. I have mellowed in my old age, however, and I only have violent outbursts when playing certain games.


3. My journal is titled ____ because ____.

My journal is titled My Damn Opinion because it mostly is. I once long ago had a basic personal website called My Damn Opinion, on which I would often spout forth my damn opinion, although I do that less lately on my LJ. My opinions change so often, because I try to examine them and question them and look a the opposite side of things.

4. My friends page is called ____ because ____.

My friends page is called Friends because....I'm lazy, and I didn't even realize I could change it.


5. My default userpic is ____ because ____.

My default userpic is Son Goku in his Super Saiyan 3 form. I chose this pic because I am not only a DBZ fan, but the huge mess of blond hair resembles me, at least on occasion. And no one can say that Goku is not mighty. ^_^

Please leave a one-word comment that you think best describes me.

It can only be one word. No more.

Then copy & paste this in your journal so that I may leave a word about you.

Side note: You may not use the words "mighty" or "bakudan". I'm on to you....

sixtyforty  RAWKS!

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first article title on the page is the name of your band.

Bullet Witch!

2. http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four words of the very last quote is the title of your album.

Have to Take It

3. http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days
The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gricelodeon/2173717343/

4. Use your graphics program of choice to throw them together, then post the result:

When I get home, I'm totally doing this. ^_^

This is weirdly accurate.

I'm very happy with this result. Many thanks to that rebel spirit, lolo_wilderkind.

Dun been STOLED from sixtyforty! OH NOES!!!

134,869 People

Unusual Deaths in 1975

• On 24 march 1975 alex mitchell, a 50-year-old bricklayer from king's lynn literally died laughing while watching an episode of the goodies. according to his wife, who was a witness, mitchell was unable to stop laughing while watching a sketch in the episode "kung fu kapers" in which tim brooke-taylor, dressed as a kilted scotsman, used a set of bagpipes to defend himself from a psychopathic black pudding in a demonstration of the scottish martial art of "hoots-toot-ochaye." after twenty-five minutes of continuous laughter mitchell finally slumped on the sofa and expired from heart failure.

Natural disasters in 1975

• Canton, Illinois Tornado of 1975
• Great Storm of 1975
• Omaha Tornado of 1975

People who died on August 03 (various years)

• 2007 - John Gardner, British author
• 2006 - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, singer
• 2006 - Arthur Lee, American psychedelic rock musician
• 2005 - Françoise d'Eaubonne, French feminist
• 2004 - Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer
• 2003 - Roger Voudouris, American singer and songwriter
• 2002 - Carmen Silvera, British actress
• 2001 - Christopher Hewett, British actor
• 1998 - Alfred Schnittke, Russian composer
• 1997 - Pietro Rizzuto, Canadian politician
• 1995 - Edward Whittemore, American writer
• 1995 - Ida Lupino, English actress and director
• 1993 - Swami Chinmayananda, spread the teachings of Vedanta
• 1983 - Carolyn Jones, American actress
• 1979 - Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist, Nobel Prize Laureate
• 1977 - Makarios III, Archbishop and first President of Cyprus
• 1977 - Alfred Lunt, American actor
• 1973 - Richard Marshall, U.S. Army general
• 1966 - Lenny Bruce, American comedian
• 1964 - Flannery O'Connor, American writer
• 1954 - Colette, French writer
• 1942 - Richard Willstätter, German chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate
• 1929 - Thorstein Veblen, American economist
• 1929 - Emil Berliner, German-born telephone and recording pioneer
• 1924 - Joseph Conrad, Polish-born writer
• 1917 - Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician
• 1916 - Sir Roger Casement, Irish rebel (hanged)
• 1879 - Joseph Severn, English painter
• 1877 - William Butler Ogden, American politician, 1st Mayor of Chicago
• 1867 - Philipp August Böckh, German scholar and antiquarian
• 1857 - Eugène Sue, French novelist
• 1839 - Dorothea von Schlegel, German novelist
• 1805 - Christopher Anstey, English writer
• 1797 - Jeffrey Amherst, British military commander
• 1792 - Richard Arkwright, English industrialist and inventor
• 1780 - Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, French philosopher
• 1773 - Stanisław Konarski, Polish writer
• 1761 - Johann Matthias Gesner, German classical scholar
• 1721 - Grinling Gibbons, Dutch-born woodcarver
• 1720 - Anthonie Heinsius, Dutch statesman
• 1712 - Joshua Barnes, English scholar
• 1667 - Francesco Borromini, Swiss sculptor and architect
• 1621 - Guillaume du Vair, French writer
• 1604 - Bernardino de Mendoza, Spanish military commander
• 1546 - Étienne Dolet, French scholar and printer
• 1546 - Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Italian architect
• 1527 - Scaramuccia Trivulzio, Italian cardinal
• 1460 - King James II of Scotland

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You all had better hope I survive, I would make a really awful zombie to have to fight.

Mad props to lolo_wilderkind!

Actually, probably not. I did meet a guy named Dan Peak when I was working in Golden. It was weird, we were both standing in line at the pharmacy together.

Another gawddawn long meme from Primal.

A pleasing result, and not even slightly surprising.

A horse walks into a bar, and the bartender says:

Because primalrage is bored...

What a bland life...