The Friday Five is on hiatus this week, so I’ll run you through last Saturday’s …
- If I could be a rock star for a day, I would be Ringo Starr.
Because he seems to be one of the few out there who has fun with his fame.
- If I could be a movie star for a day, I would be Sir Ian McKellan during the filming of the LotR.
Because, damn, that looked like fun.
- If I could visit any country, it would be Britain.
Because there’s some neat stuff there I want to see again, and some neat stuff I want to see for the first time. Wales rocks.
- If I could turn back time, I would be my current age years old forever.
Because my life has never been better. Good family, good friends, good job, good fun. The reality is, no age is perfect. I’d like to visit some ages past, but I wouldn’t want to stay there. (Well, I wouldn’t mind a 25-year-old body, but not necessarily my 25-year-old life.)
- If I could have one superpower, it would be flight.
Because that would seriously rock. Teleportation, super-strength, and super-speed come in behind that.
- If I could trade places with anyone for a month, it would be Margie.
Because I’m deeply curious as to what life is like from her perspective. I think it would be interesting. Plus, y’know, there’s that whole being-in-a-woman’s-body thang.
- If I could take back some hurtful words once said by me, they would be … I haven’t the foggiest.
Because I tend to blank those sorts of things out shortly after uttering them. Mercifully, there aren’t a lot of hurtful words I’ve said that have come back to haunt me for very long. I try to avoid them.
- If I could chose a time period to live in, it would be right now.
Because, frankly, as much as folks criticize the polution, crowding, and social problems of our era, I’ll stack them up against life at any other time — and I’ll throw in modern medicine, modern technology, modern media (the good stuff) in the bargain. We don’t necessarily live in ideal times (in fact, we certainly don’t). But I think I live better than 99-and-five-9s of the people who have ever lived.