1. back breaking work, getting covered in dirt and fertilizer followed by diligent and frequent watering and weeding and mulching, and in march, getting out the shop vac to suck up all the road sand the plows sent flying into my flower bed.
2. um.. I pity da fool?
3. Harry Belafonte was immortalized for me by Beetlejuice. When I hear him, instead of thinking about tropical climates and frozen drinks, I think about giant stripey, michael-keaton-headed snakes and personal-space-invading shrimp cocktail.
4. Is it scary that I believed it? Is it scary that I believed it because I'm that gullible or is it scary that it was quite believable? Is it scary I tend to see the image of Jaime Farr in my pancakes and in oil stains in driveways?
5. So there were these politicians, right? And they decided they were going to try to govern the people.
6. Goats are superior to androgynous evil Pac-man-type mascots, but, in an analogous situation, my husband often goes to work without pants on.