Glittering Enchantment

July 2, 2003

Obviously Lacking Something Better to Do

A Newly Found Meme!! No groans, please. There's always the back button on your browser, you know.

  1. What if you had to choose a single color to remain on Earth?

    I would probably choose sky blue. Although, all those kids hanging upside down from the jungle gym on playgrounds around the world could get really fucked up trying to figure out which way was down. Or maybe not.

  2. What if you had to choose one song to remain on Earth?

    Most definitely "My Heart Will Go On," by the incomparable Céline Dion.

    OMG!! I am so kidding.

    No Answer.

  3. What if you had to choose a single book to remain on Earth?

    Again, no answer. I clearly haven't read as much as I have claimed.

  4. What if you had to choose one electronic device to remain on Earth (cars & planes included)?
    Well, let's see. It would have to be a device that didn't rely on other devices since they would no longer exist, right? All forms of power generation would be gone, so electricity would cease to be, unless of course you chose to keep a generator of electricity, but since that would be the only electronic object left, what would you do with it?

    So the phone is out, as is the boob tube, the computer, and the microwave. The automobile could probably still exist if you could refine your own petroleum and distill it into gasoline (or however it's done), and as long as those refining devices didn't rely on electricity. Same with planes and trains.

    I guess I would have to choose a portable listening device that would rely on some sort of media that was pre-existing, unlike a radio, but more like a CD walkman. But even that wouldn't last long because you would have to use batteries to power it, and once the supply of AAs was gone, no more music.

    Hmmm, am I missing the point here? Is this a backhanded way of illustrating how desperately this planet needs to embrace solar power?

  5. What if you had to choose a single season to remain on Earth?

    I would have chosen fall for the extraordinary display of colors it provides in every state except California (or so it seems in the Bay Area). But then what if all of these "what-ifs" were existing concurrently and existing as I said they should? Then all the leaves would be blue. And so would the trees and the grass. I could choose winter, but then the snow would be blue and how could you find the yellow snow not to eat when it's blue, too? Summer's too hot for me. So spring? Blue flowers everywhere? That's OK. Blue mud?

MRB

I was silly enough to write this at 12:35 PM