I tout this blog as the place where memes go to die, but with tagging from both Alice the Camel and Magic Statistics, here are 8 things that most readers probably don't know about me:
1. With the help of an accomplice who is now a respected member of our Armed Forces, I once successfully pirated a schooner in Halifax harbour. And I still have the belaying pins to prove it.
2. I have spent an entire summer playing nothing but the Goldberg Variations for up to 3 hours a day (buy it was only on a baby grand).
3. Although I own and play a number of guitars, my favourite instrument is the 19 ounce cue with the linen-wrapped handle.
4. The two books I have read every year since I was about 19 are Augustine's Confessions and Brideshead Revisited.
5. I proposed to (the now) Mrs. Felix over the phone.
6. For the last 5 years, I have told on ongoing bedtime story to my kids - "The Adventures of Jemble and Pooka".
7. I believe the Pinot Noir is the only red varietal fit to drink, and fit it is.
8. I want to retire to Cairo.
Way to go, Joe. Don't you feel better already? (I think I do.)
Re #7. I have a Shiraz that just might change your mind.
Posted by: Scott Gilbreath | July 22, 2007 at 08:40 PM
I am always open to "dialogue"...
Posted by: joseph | July 22, 2007 at 08:42 PM
You are a classical pianist pirate priest?
Posted by: Leslie | July 22, 2007 at 09:54 PM
What I mean to say is, thank you for doing that.
:)
Posted by: Leslie | July 22, 2007 at 09:55 PM
aarrrrhhh, pipe down below decks, or I'll contrapunt ye into the depths of the baptismal font
Posted by: joseph | July 22, 2007 at 10:22 PM
i might have a malbec that would change yr mind nearly as much as scott's shiraz
Posted by: anthony | July 23, 2007 at 12:28 AM
Pinot or Shiraz or my personal fav-- Sangiovese... it always goes better with friendship and/or the view you've had from your "office"! Peace bro'. Eric Sandras
Posted by: BuckNakedFaith guy | July 23, 2007 at 06:44 AM
I have two words for you, Joe - 'single malt'.
Stay true til death.
Posted by: Tim | July 23, 2007 at 09:22 AM
Are these chapter titles, if so it's the beginings of a decent bio. I'll keep a bottle of pinot at hand for the 28th.
Posted by: steve the z | July 23, 2007 at 09:49 AM
RE: #2
Keep practicing...
Posted by: Troy | July 23, 2007 at 01:09 PM
Troy: you know, some people have an EXCESS of pianos in THEIR house...
ps - the raspberries are ripe
Posted by: joseph | July 23, 2007 at 01:40 PM
An excess of pianos? Now I'm jealous.
Posted by: Leslie | July 23, 2007 at 06:44 PM
Eric, thanks for dropping by. I plan to post a review of your book sometime (it's over in the sidebar, folks). Maybe reading it with a glass of sangiovese in hand is the way to go.
Posted by: joseph | July 24, 2007 at 10:46 AM
WHAT!?!?
Two pianos (soon to be three), two harpsichords, and a pipe organ are too much? Hmmmm. Raspberries for a piano... hmmm. They better be good.
Posted by: Troy | July 24, 2007 at 01:53 PM
Brideshead Revisited. You can take the boy out of King's College, but you can;t take King's College out of the boy.
Posted by: CPM | July 26, 2007 at 07:00 AM
Deo, Legi, Regi, Gregi.
Posted by: joseph | July 26, 2007 at 12:38 PM