Tom K's favorite question:

What song lyric have you most memorably misheard?

Rick's favorite question:

If you had to give away all of your material possessions right now, which would be the hardest for you to surrender?

Amy's favorite question:

What was your most uncomfortable night of sleep?

Henry's favorite question:

How closely does Dopplewayner look like Wayne?

Matt's favorite question:

What has been your favorite question from the blog over the past year?

Brandon's favorite question:

What has been your favorite question from the blog over the past year?

Nancy's favorite question:

What is the last thing you saw or heard that was so beautiful it made you cry?

Sara's favorite question:

Who would you choose to play you in the movie version of your life?

Wayne's question:

What two movies do you know best?

Jamie's beach book:

The Hero With A Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell

Stephen's beach book:

Osamu Tezuka’s “Buddha” series of Manga books.

Brandon's beach book:

Fate of Africa by martin meredith

Rick's beach book:

"Remembering Harry Kalas" by Rich Wolfe

Tom K's beach book:

No beach!! Sigh….
Will probably try to put away another Patrick O'Brien novel.

Beth's beach book:

Unfortunately for me "The Neurobiology of Autism"

Nancy's beach book:

The Archive, by Charles Merewether
Sweet Dreams, by Johanna Drucker

Kareem's beach book:

I have two small children. I don't get to read at the beach...

Dusty's beach book:

Infinite Jest, dfw (again); The Proud Highway, hst; Backgammon for Blood, Becker; Gibbon's Roman Empire; Odyssey+Iliad (again but different translations); Omeros, Walcott; A Personal Anthology, Borges; Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times, Kline; Phantoms in the Brain, V. S. Ramachandran; Fractal Geometry in Nature, Mandelbrot; Andy Roddick Beat Me With a Frying Pan, Gallagher; The Big Sort, Bishop.

Adina's beach book:

god of small things, on beauty, born to kvetch, catch 22, eat pray love, outliers

Kevin's beach book:

"Sandcastle Siege: Psychology of the Beach Bully"

Wheels' beach book:

The Complete Stories of Flannery OConnor

Henry's beach book:

Reading is for nerds

Amy's beach book:

Infinite Jest... wish me luck!

Wayne's beach book:

Beloved by Toni Morrison (prepping for teaching it this fall)

Rick's gelato:

Fragola con Panna, Madagascar Bourbon Vanilla & White Chocolate

Matt's gelato:

Pistacchio Siciliano/Mojito/Fragola con Panna

Chelsea's gelato:

I don't do gelatos, I do gelatis, Black cherry with vanilla custard!

Eugene's gelato:

Kiwi & Fragola con Panna

Brian's gelato:

Fragola con Tequila and Champagne Mango

Sara's gelato:

Burnt Sugar
Nocciola Piemontese
Cioccolatto scuro

Stephen's gelato:

Burnt sugar
Peanut butter

Tom K's gelato:

Pistacchio Siciliano

Ringo's gelato:

I've never had this combo, but it sounds good right now: cioccolato scuro, uva nera, thai coconut milk. Please deliver it to me now. Thank you.

Erica's gelato:

Saigon Cinnamon
Madagascar Bourbon Vanilla
Dulce De Leche

Amy's gelato:

Pompelmo Rosso con Campari
Dark and Stormy
Fragola con Tequila

Wayne's gelato:

Dark chocolate, fior di latte, and pistachio

Rick's phobia:

Operating a motorcycle

Jamie's phobia:

Volcanoes

Erica's phobia:

Puppets of people (not animals), but more specifically marionettes. Creepy little bastards.

Brandon's phobia:

Snakes

Nancy's phobia:

Public speaking

Beth's phobia:

Snakes

Tom K's phobia:

Having a human-replicant on the other side of the wall punch a hole through to me, grab my hand and pull it back through to him. Then, one by one, he breaks each of my fingers. I saw Blade Runner at a much too impressionable age, apparently, ‘cause that scene has haunted me my whole freakin’ life.

Sara's phobia:

Cockroaches

Christina's phobia:

Needles

Amy's phobia:

Drowning. Even though I would spend 10 hours a day in water if I could. Also shark attacks, but mainly because the shark would drown me as a sideline to biting my legs off.

Ringo's phobia:

Weeds growing out of strange places in the sidewalk or on the side of a building.

Chelsea's phobia:

Day to day, storms. Back of my mind/nightmares, worldwide epidemic (disease, zombies, etc).

Henry's phobia:

NO FEER!

Wayne's phobia:

Clowns really freak me out, but I am more irrationally afraid of needles.