Two for Thursday

Part I: Friday's Feast
Friday's Feast, 18 November 2005.

Appetizer When do you feel impatient?
When I have to explain the same thing, time and time again, to the same set of people at work. Yeah, I know, it's good practice for being an educator.

Soup How many times in your life have you had a broken heart?
More than I'd anticipated. I thought I was done with all that carp when I got married.

Salad Name a book you would like to see made into a movie.
The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley. Tolkien, Rowling, and Lewis have all had a shot. Now let's have a fantasy where a female lead gets to kick the @ss of evil.

Main Course If you could thank one teacher for what they taught you, who would it be and what would you thank them for?
I would thank my high school math teacher, Randall Hess, for being an example of a tough but fair teacher (and coach), and a genuinely good and decent human being.

Dessert What is your favorite kind of pie?
Grandma Martin used to make a wonderful sour cream raisin pie. She never wrote anything down, so when she left this world, she took the recipe with her.

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Part II: Top Five on Friday
Top Five on Friday from The Music Memoirs:

Top 5 "Forgotten" Artists.
(You know, those bands that are still around, but when you mention them people ask you if they are still recording or alive.)

1. Asia (Last studio CD: Silent Nation, 2004)
2. Kansas (Last studio CD: Somewhere to Elsewhere, 2000)
3. Rush (Last studio CD: Vapor Trails, 2002)
4. Toto (Last studio CD: Mindfields, 1999)
5. Yes (Last studio CD: Magnification, 2001)

[Rush and Toto have both done 'tribute' CDs since the ones listed, but they don't count. Original music only here. -Ed.]