Happy Birthday, Pen!
An interview with Pendragon:
1 - How did you come about this site and what makes you keep coming back?
I came here looking for a poetry site and I keep coming back for the camaradie I find here. Fun games. Interesting discussions, and wonderful contests and poetry.
2 - Have you visited other countries than your own and what did you like about it or not like?
No. I would love to see the world if I ever get the chance.
3 - What are your favorite hobbies ?
Reading, writing, art, music, computers…
4 - Do you have any pets?
Oh, yea! A schnauzer-poo named Izzy, a cat, Taz, a rabbit, Buggy McHare, a Norway Rat, Spock, two hamsters, Tommy Tailspin and Ash, and various lizards and frogs
5 - What makes you happy?
A good book on a rainy day! Family and friends, the sea shore, and quiet walks in the mountains
6. How can you get away with being online at work?
Easily, I work repairing computers
7. What is mankind's biggest achievement, and its greatest downfall?
LOL. They could be one and the same, the Internet! Seriously, lack of human tolerance is the biggest downfall, not sure on achievements…
8. If you had a long day of hard work ahead of you what music would you be playing on your mp3, while working?
The Eagles, Bon Jovi, something along those lines
9. If you could take one book, music album and one video with you to a desert island, what would they be?
One Book: The Bible. One Album: Eagles Lone Road Out of Eden. One movie: Signs
10. Which actress should play you in a movie based on your life?
ROFL. As a man any who can pull it off!
11. What makes you smile? (Activities, people, events, hobbies, projects, etc.)
Drawing, playing music, my kids, various art projects… (Questions like the former! ROLLEYES!)
12. What were your favorite things to do the past? What about now?
I would preach anywhere I could get a pulpit. Now, I dream of going back to that!
13. What activities make you lose track of time?
LOL. Preaching, Forums, good music as a participator, a good book, an interesting computer problem…
14. What makes you feel great about yourself?
15. Who inspires you most? (Anyone you know or not. Family, friends, authors, artists, leaders, etc.) Which qualities inspire you, in each person?
My dad in law for his support and hard work, my mother for keeping our family together, my wife for her consistent putting up with me, several preachers I have known for help with my faith.
16. What are you naturally good at? (Skills, abilities, gifts etc.)
Music, art, and poetry.
17. What do people typically ask you for help in?
Computers, Bible related questions, Book related research…
18. If you had to teach something, what would you teach?
Elementary School art
19. What would you regret not fully doing, being or having in your life?
Completing my education and becoming a teacher.
20. What song is in your head at the moment?“It’s My Life” by Bon Jovi
21. The last book you bought/borrowed from the library?
Bought: The Spider: City of Doom, borrowed “Ghosts of Virginia”.
22. Which book are you reading at the moment?
Doomwyte by Brian Jacques
23. The last book you finished reading?
Gaslight Grimoire
24. Favorite food?/ Comfort food?
Steak! Dark Chocolate!
25. Favorite outfit?
Comfortable pants and sensible shirt.
26. What are you wearing at the moment?
Grey Pants and black tee
27. Favorite poem?“The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe
28. First novel you remember reading on your own?
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
29. Favorite TV shows?
X-files, Chuck, Firefly, Dr. Who
30. Which LitNet members would you like to meet in person if you could? Virgil, Motherhubbard, my dear friend mtpspur, Toni and her sisters…
31. Favorite post on the Forum?
I couldn’t really say, maybe Prince Myshkin’s “Snapshots”
32. Favorite thread?
Personal Poetry
33. Last food did you have?
Breakfast Bars
34. Last words you said out loud?
“Man, I have had it with this computer!”
35. Last person you hugged/kissed?
My wife, Judy at work who’s having radical surgery soon…
36. What do you do (for a living) to be able to keep your LitNet addiction going?
I’m disabled and work part time at a computer place for a pittance
37. Are you happy with your chosen profession?
Well, I like the computer job, being disabled not so much!
38. What would you like to be if you could change your profession?
Full time Teacher
39. Least favorite book/song/movie?
Book: Moby Dick, Song: Dude Looks Like a Lady, Movie: Deliverance
40. The most generous thing you have done?
Donated $500 to the missionaries to Africa, gave to Katrina victims
41. What is your most outstanding feature?
LOL. My Beard.
42. If you could change one thing about the way you look, what would that be?
Lose 100 pounds!
43. Which book do you wish you had written?
I love to be able to claim Pilgrim’s Progress as mine…
44. What is your favorite book cover?
Shadows over Baker Street
45. Most and least favorite characters from books?
Sherlock Holmes, Doc Savage, The Shadow, Tarzan are among favorites. Anything Dickens came up with is probably my least favorite, along with Captain Ahab.
46. What would your biography be titled?
Life with a Depressed Man
47. What should you be doing at the moment instead of answering these questions?
Working on a computer, but it’s loading as I type
48. Wonderful Superman or depressing Batman?
Batman, and who says he is depressing?!
49. The most embarrassing moment in your life?
I’d like to redo the entire Eighth grade, I couldn’t do anything right that year!
50. Which literary character (s) have you been told to resemble the most?
Actually, Holmes, my dear Watsons!
51. List some of the things that annoy you immensely.
People who think they know more than they do
People who stand over you ask you work
Habitual Liars.
52. Anything that you want to forget but you never can?
Inside of a Mental Hospital is a memory I wish I could exorcise…
53. One final word of wisdom for LitNet users?
Carpe Diem! Pain is only temporary anyway!
54. What would you like to ask to the person to be interviewed after you?
Do you feel comfortable in your walk with God?
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