ribbons

1. If reading a physical book, how do you mark the place at which you stop reading?/

I don’t. I usually just try to remember where I was when closing the book (sometimes noting the page number in my mind); then on return I flip through pages until I find the right place.

2. What’s your favourite statue?

Ocean Atlas

3. When were you last on a bus?

3 days ago on the crosstown bus

4. Do you use a manual or electric toothbrush?

Manual – always a Reach toothbrush, and I change to a new one every month or so.

5. What is the scariest/most disturbing/oddest dream you had?

A dream I had recently, actually – because it was so real. I was driving in the dream with my nieces en route to a hotel in Vietnam. As we drove into an underground garage, my nieces told me that it was required by Vietnamese law that you keep a badger (!) in your room as a protection against Covid (?). I was anxious about this because I was afraid to be alone in my hotel room with a badger all week, lol. I took my baggage out of the trunk and walked ahead of my nieces (who were still chatting by the car). I turned around to realize I was far ahead of the girls, so I stopped and put my luggage down – then saw a male figure in a beige raincoat walking toward me. As he came closer, I realized it was my father. I exclaimed that I couldn’t believe he was really there – but he was completely mute and couldn’t respond. He just kept looking at me with a sad, wistful look on his face as if he was about to cry. Then he cupped both his palms together and raised them to my face – holding a large key ring with many sparkling golden keys on it. He was offering these keys to me for some reason, and I sort of understood that the keys were for a special vehicle somewhere in the garage, but I wasn’t sure. And he couldn’t tell me, and looked very sad about it. At that point, I woke up. The dream was very disturbing to me because my father’s presence in it was so palpable, it felt like it had actually occurred.

6. Looking out your window now, what can you see?

Other apartments and terraces, courtyard of my building complex with redwood tables and umbrellas, Adirondack chairs, trees and shrubs, and a sliver of the East River with occasional boats going by.

The Batlord

1. If reading a physical book, how do you mark the place at which you stop reading?

I fold a square of toilet paper in half and use it as a bookmark.

2. What’s your favourite statue?

Sleeping Hermaphroditus



3. When were you last on a bus?

When I was in high school.

4. Do you use a manual or electric toothbrush?

Why would I need a manual for a toothbrush, idiot?

5. What is the scariest/most disturbing/oddest dream you had?



6. Looking out your window now, what can you see?

Blinds.

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Trollheart

1. If reading a physical book, how do you mark the place at which you stop reading?

I used to make bookmarks by scanning the book's cover, pasting the image into a bookmark and printing it and then sticking it onto a piece of card, but uh, don't do that any longer. it was cool though: you literally had the cover of the book as your bookmark. Should have marketed that. D'oh! I also used to buy bookmarks, but these days, if, which is very rare, I'm reading a physical book I use the old dog-ear.

2. What’s your favourite statue?

Got to be Brazil's Christ the Redeemer. So iconic.

3. When were you last on a bus?

Going on three years now. My world has shrunk to about a mile in distance.

4. Do you use a manual or electric toothbrush?

Manual. Never liked electric ones, though the doc recommended one for Karen. I used it until she became incapable of cleaning her own teeth, then she complained so much about the vibrations when I was trying to clean them that I gave it up and went back to a manual. You ever tried brushing someone else's teeth? Now we have a Berman, which is cool as it gets all the surfaces at once.


5. What is the scariest/most disturbing/oddest dream you had?

I don't really remember dreams (who sets these damn ques - oh. Right) but I do recall parts of one which was pretty disturbing. For some reason my dreams - the bits I remember anyway - always show me my home as it was about twenty years ago or more. So anyway I remember running with Karen (long before she was sick) down to where there used to be a car park. From a garden to the left an ICBM rose into the air, and I knew this was a signal we were about to die.

Then I woke up.

6. Looking out your window now, what can you see?

It's night now, so nothing. But in the day I can look out over my back garden, see the birds eating from the feeders and drinking the water I put out, see Karen's extension to the right, neighbour's garden to the left and other houses facing me. Also our shed (which is empty but once contained an entire city of mice, estimated at about 170) and the neighbour's tree, recently cut back.

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music_collector

1. If reading a physical book, how do you mark the place at which you stop reading?

I usually take a scrap of paper lying around to mark my page.

2. What’s your favourite statue?

I like the statues of the former players in front of Montreal's Centre Bell.

3. When were you last on a bus?

The last bus I rode was in the Dominican Republic. We were headed back to the airport. It was a horrible day.

4. Do you use a manual or electric toothbrush?

Manual for me.

5. What is the scariest/most disturbing/oddest dream you had?

I also don't remember my dreams.

6. Looking out your window now, what can you see?

I saw my retired friend cutting his grass. Retirees around here LOVE cutting grass, especially at 8PM, when I'm putting my kids to bed.

ribbons

Not since my children were toddlers. That's a pretty cool toothbrush you use for Karen. I know it's really tough, but the fact remains - you are an incredible brother.

innerspaceboy

1. If reading a physical book, how do you mark the place at which you stop reading?

I designed and printed multiple sets of custom bookmarks to celebrate my favorite artists.



2. What’s your favourite statue?

I had a signed statue of James Joyce shipped from Dublin and found a marvelous marble and mahogany pedestal with ornamental brass inlays at my local antique mall upon which to display it.



3. When were you last on a bus?

For several years I'd bought a house walking distance from my CEO's office so I cycled or bused everywhere. On 10-31-17 I bought a car to make things a little easier.

4. Do you use a manual or electric toothbrush?

Manual. Just got a new one and it feels great.

5. What is the scariest/most disturbing/oddest dream you had?

I seldom remember my dreams.

6. Looking out your window now, what can you see?

All of my windows are dressed with opaque velvet burgundy and gold curtains with tasseled tie-back ropes to complement my antique velvet furniture, so little natural light enters my home. It gives the space a Victorian quality I enjoy.

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Trollheart

There are some who even claim I exist. Nobody believes them though.

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Lisnaholic

1. If reading a physical book, how do you mark the place at which you stop reading?
For decades, just scraps of paper. I have now upgraded to promotional bookshop ones or decorative ones people have given me.

2. What’s your favourite statue?
Nothing came to mind except the same as TH: big Christ in Brazil -though I'm sure there are plenty better ones to select. Some of the best capture a moment of movement, which big JC does not.

3. When were you last on a bus?
Probably about 5 years back to visit another city.

4. Do you use a manual or electric toothbrush?

Manual, as I like the quick gear changes you can do with a stick shift

5. What is the scariest/most disturbing/oddest dream you had?
Only time I jumped out of bed screaming: I dreamt a rat was eating my hand and I couldn't escape. When I came to my senses, I realised I'd been sleeping with it behind my back and had accute pins&needles

6. Looking out your window now, what can you see?[/QUOTE]

Neighbour's pretty ugly one-storey house across the street. It is redeemed by being regularly washed in beautiful early morning & late afternoon sunlight.

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Ayn Marx

1. If reading a physical book, how do you mark the place at which you stop reading?/

If fiction I place a bookmark where last reading. If references, which I tend to read backwards & forwards, I often have multiple bookmarks, some of them with small notes as to what they’re marking.

2. What’s your favourite statue?

Queen Victoria in the Alexandra Gardens, Melbourne because pigeons enjoy sh*tting all over it.

3. When were you last on a bus?

On the way from Melbourne Airport when returning from OS.

4. Do you use a manual or electric toothbrush?

Both depending on where I am.

.5. What is the scariest/most disturbing/oddest dream you had?

As A child I had a returning nightmare of being attacked by a creature resembling giant, manic bagpipes full of ill intent.

6. Looking out your window now, what can you see?

Open countryside, mountains, sunshine, forest, fresh air and my dogs romping in the garden.


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Ayn Marx

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