May 2010
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Do you like horror movies?
Yes: especially camp horror, summer camp horror, slasher, the new French horror stuff that’s been coming out, maybe some Spanish horror, J-horror, K-horror, zombie flicks, by-the-numbers suspense, horror video games, oh my god, whatever it is, I will watch it, even if I hate it. P.S. Thank you for reminding me to add Black Christmas to my Facebook interests.
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Who put these hos in my room?
“Your cat,” I told him, “is a passionate Italian woman. She loves you. She curls up on you. She wakes you in the morning with purring and licking. She bends and flexes under your hand. And now she hates you! She tears through the house, shouting and smashing all your dishes on the floor! She hates you! She hates you! It’s very confusing.”
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So many questions answered. So, are you or are you...
I would exchange these guts for metal in a heartbeat.
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This is not a question, but wanted you to know...
It’s very special to me, yes. I don’t think I need it on my Xbox, though, because I have it on dusty cartridge.
I spent my whole childhood calling Haunted House “the Twilight Zone Game” because, at the end when you’ve assembled the urn and escaped the mansion, the game plays Twilight Zone music. What! What is that! It confused me for years.
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Jenn Special
Should you ever find yourself hungry at Atomix in Chicago, IL, be sure to ask for a “Jenn Special.” (Incidentally, if you ask Dan for a “Holocaust and Hamas,” he will almost certainly give you My Sandwich with a side of hummus.)
It’s called a Jenn Special because I order the same sandwich, My Sandwich, almost every day, $$$z permitting. Because I eat it with so much...
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If you woke up tomorrow to find your entire right...
Thank you for writing the greatest question ever written. I had a dream once that went sort of similarly, so I will use it as a template:
I am staring at my right hand, which is wriggling and writhing, and I am totally repulsed. Then I think to myself, How has this happened to my hand? Well, this can’t have happened all at once. It must have happened gradually, and I’ve only just...
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Stealing a page from The Seventh Seal (or Bill &...
I had wanted to answer ‘Pente’ to this, but lately I have been losing to my phone’s AI. It’s really troubling!
Parcheesi.
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And on a less creepy note, what's your favorite...
That would be “A Woman’s Guide to Football.” http://bit.ly/QAIEY
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Love+?
I assume you’re asking about Love Plus+, the Japanese dating simulation? I haven’t played even a bit of it, although I did expound, if momentarily, on how uncreepy I find it. The game experience, I suspect, is no more or less artificial than—and I apologize for this but I think I do mean it—the anonymous querents leaving notes in an online school locker to a girl who is only a...
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What would an ideal first date be like for you?
My friend Jason S and I both lived by the wharf, and one day we bought saltwater taffy and rode a 3d tilty-ride. The ride was epic! It concluded with computer-generated dinosaurs taking over the USS Lexington aircraft carrier! I wanted to ride the tilty-ride again immediately!
Also, our first real hangout was an ARG. If you want to impress me, that is how. Good luck, suitors!
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If you are willing to be my anonymous fictional...
It’s so meta that I’m tempted! But it’s true, I already accepted the Metroid Chef’s marriage proposal.
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Can you please tell all of the dudes from the last...
I was actually getting a little worried that the Metroid dude who can cook was behind all the other formspring questions, too, or that every anonymous question is from one person trying out different punctuation
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I think you are neat. Will you be my valentine. I...
Oh gosh! I didn’t have a valentine at Valentime but maybe I am willing to retcon.
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Why do you look so beautiful?
Seventy-five percent of it is genetics, obviously. But twenty-five percent of it is hard work and tons of money. For instance, I adhere to a strict nightly beauty regimen. Every night I slather my hands in lotion, apply my lemon coconut cocoa butter cuticle softening cream, and then wear gloves to bed. When I comb my hair, first I comb through with a wide-tooth, then with a fine-tooth, and finally...
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What's your favorite word? I like either ersatz or...
I often find myself trimming some recurring filler words out of things I write — usually adverbs — but I guess those are my least favorite words.
I did once talk to a German girl about the word “zeitgeist” and how we use it here. She got really nervous, really uncomfortable, and she let me know I shouldn’t throw “zeitgeist” around so easily. And in the...
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If you could have a Marvel mutant power, what...
Uncanniness; laser eyes
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You are such an open and likable personality. I...
Anything with anyone! Anything and who with!
This is a really difficult question, don’t you think? But I like your question so much, because I really miss Being Together Making Things.
I think I would want a music collaborator, or I would want to write and make a play with someone. I used to do a lot of those things with just a few other people, and it is very difficult these days because...
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Well, if this IS dying out, thanks for taking the...
Oh, no, I just don’t check it every day etc etc. Thank you for playing!
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Admit it, you secretly LOVE "Out of Touch" by Hall...
I had to google the Official Video to remember the song, and THANK YOU so much because that was the greatest music video I have ever seen! I totally dance like that, too.
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jeez, there's like missing words and such poor...
I’m sorry! I hope you didn’t mind too much, but maybe your note was meant to be a secret. I don’t know what I can say anyway, except that I have seen your message and felt gratitude.
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don't post a response to this but I liked how...
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I know of you from some podcasts you did, you told...
Hi, Shawn,
I think I know the podcast episode you mean—it’s from April 2009, when I left California. And certainly I’m proud of it. But I also intended that confessional recording as a Last Hurrah, and so I gave my gaming history I guess because it was like a now-or-never thing.
More podcasting? I doubt I have it in me. I’m not a great critic—I am nostalgic, not objective—and...
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Were you ever on any podcasts other than...
I used to be on the radio. I used to do my own podcast (we called them “audioblogs” then—”podcast” is a neologism invented by Apple). I’ve been invited to the Squadron of Shame squadcast. Maybe someday again but A) I don’t have Internet, and B) my Xanax prescription ran out.
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Why do you play videogames?
I’m not sure. When I was younger, it was because I preferred my own company to the company of others. Later, that changed, and games became a good way to trick people into spending meaningful time with me.
More recently I thought I liked games because they helped me get far away from myself. But even more recently—playing Lumines II or a lot of Galaxian and Berzerk on Atari—I realized that...
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Any chance of a CoP reunion or some solo vocal...
That’s very kind of you to ask about! But my bandmates have been scattered to the four corners. The composer of that song is in the band Arcade Fire. Our drummer is a doctor, and if all went as planned, so, too, is our keytarist.
If you would like to hear some solo vocal work, you should drive along with me to my bank, because that is when I do my finest work.
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Bored of this yet?
I don’t think there’s anything else people want to know about me, never mind anything else I want to tell.
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