October 18, 2004

• something that probably shouldn't be embarassing, but thanks to my upbringing is terribly embarassing. Why advertising flyers?
• Do they have to be secret? I have plenty of vices, but am generally very, very bad at keeping them secret and none of them are all that interesting.
• I read "For Better or Worse" and "Sally Forth" I watched Jem and the Holograms when it was on tv
• Try Google Catalogs; it's more ecologically friendly than actually getting all those catalogs. And seaking of vices, I read "Vice Magazine" [at least partly NSFW] and can't stay away from "Found Magazine" either. But the line must be drawn somewhere and Jem is just too truly outrageous for me.
• Naw, they don't have to be secret. Maybe it could just be your favourite one; your desert island vice. As for the flyers, I think it's the annoying salespeople in electronics stores. I pre-shop with the flyers so I know exactly what I want and can be out of there fast. Most of the flyers here are for electronics stores, so it started with them, and now I read the rest of them. Except for the ones from Dell -they suck.
• Well, if by desert island you actually mean dessert island, I do have a habit of going to Chinese Buffets just to eat bowl after bowl of their ice milk. Well, I lie. The bowl is probably 1/4 ice milk and 3/4 chocolate-substitute syrup. It is delicious, and almost tastes like real chocolate. I also frequent a Chinese take-out place (well, did, when I worked in the area) because the cashier was cute.
• Bad sci-fi movies. Like, really, obviously bad sci-fi movies.
• ...almost forgot: and Indian lime, ginger, or garlic pickles. If I could somehow live on those, life would be perfecter.
• Wonderbread with process cheese slices. Retro-licious...
• I sing every song that I come accross in an operatic voice (in my car, windows rolled up, on my way to work).... lol...it's like, I'll sing hmmm depeche mode in Soprano, and then wail something by the magnetic fields... quite fun. *flush*
• My food vice is boxed dinners from the grocery store. You know - add water, milk or butter and you have a delightful meal of many, many carbs and very little nutrition. Kraft Macaroni & Cheese is my #1 pick, but Hamburger Helper is on the list, too.
• After grocery shopping, I ride my grocery cart to my car. It's always downhill (for drainage purposes?), so you can get up decent speed. You just stand on the undertray bar and steer by braking one rear wheel or the other with your foot. I'm pretty big, so I have to lean way forward to avoid tipping backwards. Also, I enjoy having sex with goats. (But, really, who doesn't?)
  
• I like watching Emergency Vets even though I cry over every episode.
• '70's science fiction. Bacon cheesburgers. Rice-a-Roni. Flannel sheets. I'm not sure reading flyers really counts as a vice, moneyjane. surely you can think of something more...vicelike?
• I know someone that loves those supermarket catalogs, the ones with picture after color picture of tuna cans and cookie boxes, along with goofy models showing off cheapo clothing. She loves looking at those photos of smoked salmon cuts and pineapples... Still, she's the most centered, smart, planning person when shopping at a supermarket, the list-and-price-comparison kind of consumer. I like to read those funny phrases and logos on girl's t-shirts. For, eh, research reasons, of course. That the girls are usually pretty is just a coincidence...
• Chick flicks. Not all of them. Just some of them (mostly Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan movies). Sleepless in Seattle is an absolute fave - I won't watch it with anyone else because I couldn't take someone seeing me get all teared up.
• I enjoy mocking stupid people to their face in such a manner that they do not realize they are being mocked.
• Mmmhh... actually, I HATE all those flyers on the mailbox; or those ones wedged in the door frame, so when you open it, a couple of sheets fly around, threatening me with paper cuts. Last count: 4 pizza places (I've tried all those, all crappy, the one I liked went out of business), 2 urging me to finish school, 2 teasing me about the better job I'd get if only I spoke (another language), 2 asking me to take my nonexistant pets and nonexistant kids for vaccines, 1 for some money lending house, 2 for same number of churches, 2 supermarket catalogs, 1 radioshack catalog, 1 reminding me to re-elect my local representative, complete with spooky, grinning picture... Forget about ecological waste, it's mind pollution.
• Eating sticks of butter, Journey albums, and the eternal hunt for the ugliest possible Christmas tree ornaments.
• Hmmm PatB...let me think. Well, I do secretly want a little chihuahua to carry around with me, even in stores and stuff. Which maybe isn't a vice, but just stupid. I'm morbidly curious, which means if, during the course of walking about the city, I come on the scene of an accident or a bunch of cops and yellow tape, I have to either find out or figure out what happened.
• Crappy online RPGs. Currently playing LegendArena. It's awful, yet I remain addicted and log in every day to battle 12-year-old boys to the death.
• Eating sticks of butter, Journey albums You eat Journey albums? ;) Granted, "Separate Ways" is a tasty tune... I still have to flip through the lingerie section of every new JC Penney catalog I see, a holdover from the days of my bygone youth when that and Savage Sword of Conan were my only porn. Despite the fact that I'm now married and can see nursing bras modelled in real life any time I like. Also, when I'm in the bathroom, I read the labels of all the cleaning and hair care products I can find. I just love the poetic blurbs that talk about the product: "Suave shampoo enriches your hair with luxuriant aloe compounds and some stuff we found in a meteor. Do not taunt Suave Shampoo." It's compulsive, really.
• I have seen all (or nearly all) baseball movies ever made, but I don't watch the game or care much about it. I'm a sucker for cheesy action flicks and war movies and kung fu movies too, so I guess I just like movies about honor and ethics and all that. Huh. I never really realized that before, thanks moneyjane.
• Name That Itch - I think this is for you.
• I zone out while doing rote activities, and the happier my thoughts, the more ridiculous I tend to look. So my roommates often catch me skipping on the treadmill, or dancing around with a knife in the kitchen. It sucks, but only because I get so embarassed. And I can't stand advertising flyers. If I find one stuck to my car for a place nearby, I collect the flyers from surrounding cars, drive them over to the place advertised, and toss them inside their door. Unless it's a place I know and like, then I just grumble to myself and recycle the flyer.
• My vices are many my virtues are few I'll save all my flyers and send them to you.
• I think it must be something like having a secret tattoo; once ye show it off, it stops being a secret. And there ye be, online, and forevermore branded as a fool with a public vice. And all your children's children will pretend they don't know ye any more. And your name will become a hissing and a byeword.
• Not telling you, but I'm doing it right now...
• Oh, if the advertisers only KNEW to what uses Flash puts their exhortations. It's not exactally secret, but I pee in the back of the horse trailer in the wood chips. In my defense, so do the horses. I do hose it out occasionally. When I'm among friend of the female persuasion just riding around out in the back country, I don't even need a horse trailer. As far as secret vices, I'll bet Bees recites bad poetry in a high-pitched voice in the bathtub. No nosepickers? Yea. Right.
• I read community web logs. And I pick my nose when people aren't looking.
• My advice: if somebody asks you to write about Your Guilty Pleasures, make sure they pay you for it. (Oh, and write about things you aren't that embarassed to admit you like...)
• MsVader: Thanks, but that's on my tree already (sorry the picture is out of focus, but mom was having troubles with the camera). I was looking for something more like these beauties.
• I have a vice .... out in my shop I had to - too tempting to let it go
• I was looking for something more like these beauties. Good gob, it's Mr and Mrs Hanky.
• MonkeyFilter. I even have this site bookmarked at work.
• Er..i stay up past midnight on Monday nights to watch Paleoworld on Discovery channel, stay up past midnight tuesday nights to watch Cosmic odyssey on Discovery channel. On wednesday and nights past midnignt there's nothing on that interests me so i either read or do crosswords, or stay up reading MEFI and MOFI archives. Friday nights past midnight i'm usually too drunk to care and saturday nignt past midnight i stay up to watch some Archaelogy show who's name i can never remember but its either about mummies (ie dead people) or ancient Rome. Oh, and i have an abnormal fetish for forensic investigative type documentaries!
• I like to play the game Guilty Pleasures!
• ramix, if my bedtime wasn't 10:30pm, we'd be the same person.
• walking on the grass with bare feet.
• My secret vice is murdering absolute and unsuspecting strangers and disposing their bodies in creative ways. I also like assembling weapons of mass destruction.
• I like saying things in a big, booming, cartoonish announcer's voice. It started when a friend of mine got me in the habit of shouting "PAINTER OF LIGHT!!!" everytime somebody says Thomas Kinkade's name. Then it moved on to other things, like the "Imaginarium" section of Toys 'R' Us. I like to walk through that section with my wife, thundering, "IMAGINE! A pickle shaped like a banjo! You can have it, AT THE IMAGINARIUM!!!" This embarrasses her to no end. I also enjoy ass-watching.
• Tracicle...i'm your long lost alter ego! MCT...donkeys?
• thanks, trac, for the new addiction! :op
• bwahaha!!
• Weekend mornings in springtime, that first cuppa tea of the day, watching the damn birds. And cheesey songs, the older the better. A current favorite is Frank Sinatra's rendition of French Foreign Legion. You gotta belt it out for maximum effect. and those dreadful pink coconut chocolate snowball things and mac & cheese and Miller High Life and Jackie Chan
• I'm in love with Tina Fey. Oh, and I think Altman's Popeye is a great movie.
• I think I probably do every weird thing a person can do in traffic with their hands above the dashboard (scrath teeth when haven't brushed, drone in high pitched whistles trying to improve my technique, long, nonsensical dialogs with myself in funny voices, ect.). I also do not let Bush supporters merge into my lane.
• Sometimes I write about socks. Or I write about sloths, or underwear, or listen to ducks, or celebrate a drunken bear. My vice is plain for all to see and sometimes writ in poetry.