AMA midwestyankee

How has your attitude towards sex changed over time?

I am almost certainly much more accepting of others' preferences than I was as a young man. I see sex as a mire collaborative enterprise than I did earlier in my life. Maybe the most important change is that I now see a sexual relationship as a partnership within a partnership where the rules of engagement and parity can, and probably should be different for each partnership.
 
This one is easy: Titanic.

I love a good screwball romance as much as anyone but I just cannot stomach melodrama.

I have watched it only once. It was because others around me felt I just Had to see it. I was bored and didn’t find it particularly special for a movie.
 
Do you plan and plant a garden each year? If so, what vegetable must you have in it?

I do not. My better 90% sees to it that we have a few bright spots of green and color around the place. I am in charge of keeping our lawn from turning into hay and I succeed at that most years.

If I were to have a vegetable garden, I would want to plant black bean burgers, my favorite way to eat vegetables.
 
I have watched it only once. It was because others around me felt I just Had to see it. I was bored and didn’t find it particularly special for a movie.

I completely understand. It's my impression that Titanic is 3 hours and 13 minutes too long.
 
What feeds your soul lately Yank?

I've been pondering this one as it would be easy to toss out something snarky. More and more, I find myself looking for something in past events that might help me see my way through the present. In the last few months I have watched dozens of hours of documentaries on the American space program. I've listened to hours of podcasts and read books on the same subject. Hope feeds my soul, especially the hope that we can carry out similarly ambitious programs to improve our national society.

Music, too, is more important to me now than it had for a long time. I listen to much more Mozart than ever, but also the Blues. It's hard to beat a couple of quiet hours reading with Mozart on to fend off the sounds of leaf blowers.
 
Addendum: comedy and laughter used to feed my soul. I haven't felt like laughing in eight months. I'm hopeful that I will again.
 
Addendum: comedy and laughter used to feed my soul. I haven't felt like laughing in eight months. I'm hopeful that I will again.


I hope you feel like laughing soon too. Maybe some Marx Brothers might help. Laughter is good medicine, in addition to being good for the soul.
 
I hope you feel like laughing soon too. Maybe some Marx Brothers might help. Laughter is good medicine, in addition to being good for the soul.

This is a good suggestion, actually. I lovd the Marx Brothets and watched Duck Soup for the umpteenth time a few weeks ago.
 
Broadway musicals - yea or nay?

It's complicated.

Given the choice between seeing almost any musical and, say, getting castrated without anesthesia, I would have to think over my options. But I love the music of many musicals that I would never choose to see in person. We had Broadway cast recordings of most of the classic American musicals (think Carousel, Sound of Music, Showboat) and we played them often. But I was a serious student of literature in college and I came to despise musical comedies as a genre. Still do.

As I live in a large metro area, I have had the opportunity to see several more recent musicals. That list includes Evita, Miss Saigon Rent, Les Mis, and Phantom. I enjoyed them as experiences and like some of the music.

But tell me I might just get laid if I would only sit through South Pacific and I would likely vote for celibacy.
 
On a more terrestrial level, I would like to spend time in Scotland, where many of my ancestors lived. I don't play golf any longer, but I do enjoy their whisky.
 
On a more terrestrial level, I would like to spend time in Scotland, where many of my ancestors lived. I don't play golf any longer, but I do enjoy their whisky.

Interesting. I didn't recall your Scottish heritage. I would have loved to visit Scotland with my Dad. He was born in Ayr and came to Canada at 4.
 
You don't seem so here, but are you easy to anger?

Certainly not now. When I was younger and had lots of stresses from work and a growing family I would occasionally get angry. Almost always, though, it would be over something fairly inconsequential and I would be ready to apologize for getting angry within minutes. When truly bad things happen, I very rarely get angry except sometimes at the world at large, and never at people.
 
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