I'll tell you what I want, what I really, really want...

What is one of your favorite poems?
Submitted by marvel is my pen name.

The Day Lady Died
by Frank O' Hara

It is 12:20 in New York a Friday
three days after Bastille day, yes
it is 1959 and I go get a shoeshine
because I will get off the 4:19 in Easthampton
at 7:15 and then go straight to dinner
and I don't know the people who will feed me

I walk up the muggy street beginning to sun
and have a hamburger and a malted and buy
an ugly NEW WORLD WRITING to see what the poets
in Ghana are doing these days 
I go on to the bank
and Miss Stillwagon (first name Linda I once heard)
doesn't even look up my balance for once in her life
and in the GOLDEN GRIFFIN I get a little Verlaine
for Patsy with drawings by Bonnard although I do
think of Hesiod, trans. Richmond Lattimore or
Brendan Behan's new play or Le Balcon or Les Nègres
of Genet, but I don't, I stick with Verlaine
after practically going to sleep with quandariness

and for Mike I just stroll into the PARK LANE
Liquor Store and ask for a bottle of Strega and
then I go back where I came from to 6th Avenue
and the tobacconist in the Ziegfeld Theatre and
casually ask for a carton of Gauloises and a carton
of Picayunes, and a NEW YORK POST with her face on it

and I am sweating a lot by now and thinking of
leaning on the john door in the 5 SPOT
while she whispered a song along the keyboard
to Mal Waldron and everyone and I stopped breathing

What comedian makes you pee your pants laughing?
Submitted by pookieb.

Eddie Izzard.

"Hellllppp! I'm covered in bees!"

"I am an eeeevil giraffe - I shall eat all the leaves."

"The druids were into sex, death, and religion, in a very night-time telly sort of way."

"Cake or death?"

"Ciao!"

What food or drink do you love when it's cold out?  (Recipes and recommendations, please!)

Coffee. I like coffee a lot, but usually it's just so hot here that I can't bring myself to drink something that will make me even hotter. And I like iced coffee, but only on an every-now-and-then basis.

What is your earliest memory? 
Submitted by Megan.

My third birthday party. We were still living on base in FOrt Knox, Kentucky. I got a Strawberry Shortcake doll.

Not very exciting, huh?

What do you like to make or order for brunch?

I don't eat eggs, so my brunches tend to be pretty bread-based: waffles, French toast (yes, I realize that involves eggs, but I don't have to deal with egg textures so it's OK), bagels, those kinds of things. And maybe a banana. And definitely some bacon. Mmm, bacon...

You've been through the desert on a horse with no name.  Except your horse does have a name.  What is it? 
Submitted by edubya.vox.com.

Lola

What's your musical horoscope?  (Put your music player on shuffle and write down the first 10 songs that come up.)  Inspired by Stephanie.

1. "She's a Rainbow" - The Rolling Stones

2. "An Angel Went Up in Flames" - The Gas Band

3. "Chloe Dancer/Crown of Thorns" - Mother Love Bone

4. "Sparks" - The Who

5. "I Don't Believe You" - The Magnetic Fields

6. "Mack the Knife" - Frank Sinatra

7. "Lubbock or Leave It" - The Dixie Chicks

8. "The New Kid" - Old 97's

9. "One" - U2

10. "Come Around" - Rhett Miller

What's your motto?

Lately, I'm going with, "I squee, therefore I am".

What's your middle name?  Is there a story or history behind it?

My middle name is Renee. No story - my mom just liked how it sounded with my first name. Incidentally, my youngest (though not for much longer!) niece's middle name is also Rene, but as you can see, it is spelled differently and has absolutley nothing to do with my middle name at all. Word on the street is that it's because my brother-in-law has a thing for Rene Russo. Whatever.

What's your favorite song to sing karaoke-style?  If you don't have one, why not?

Lately, it's "The Gambler" by Kenny Rogers, due to its inclusion in Blackpool. Other good stand-bys include Bette Midler's "The Rose", anything by Celine Dion (you honestly never cranked the radio in the car and sang along with "My Heart Will Go On" at the top of your voice? I don't think I believe that), and "I Will Survive", preferably the Cake version.