Author: scrivener

Hello, and welcome to this week’s Friday 5. Please copy these questions to your webspace. Answer the questions there; then leave a comment below so we’ll all know where to check out your responses. Please don’t forget to link us from your website!

1. What’s a good song with a bad title?
2. Who is named strangely, among musicians or bands you like?
3. What are some album titles you like?
4. Often, greatest hits compilations are simply called Greatest Hits or The Best of, but sometimes they’re titled more creatively and appropriately for the artist, as with Bob Marley & the Wailers’ Legend, Madonna’s The Immaculate Collection, or 1 by the Beatles (a collection of number one hits). If you were to collect all your favorite songs by one of your favorite artists, how would you title the compilation?
5. Among bands you like, who has a great name?

Thanks for participating, and have a safe, Godspeed You! Black Emperor weekend!

Hello, and welcome to this week’s Friday 5! Please copy these questions to your webspace. Answer the questions there; then leave a comment below so we’ll all know where to check out your responses. Please don’t forget to link us from your website!

I almost never ask yes-no questions here, but they seem appropriate this week for some reason.

1. Has the death of a famous person (not connected to you personally) ever made you cry?
2. Have you ever sent money as relief aid after a disaster?
3. How will the recent declaration affirming alcoholic beverages as cancer-causing affect your consumption?
4. What is the most bizarre (or difficult to understand) movie you’ve seen?
5. How willing and able are you to separate art from artist when a musican, actor, writer, or other creator is discovered to have behaved very badly?

Thanks for participating, and have a wonderful, safe weekend. I am a sucker for a new year (doubly, because my birthday is in the first week of the month), and cannot help but feel this is going to be a great year for us all, filled with joy, kindness, and peace, which I wish for you in abundance.

Hello, and welcome to this week’s Friday 5! Please copy these questions to your webspace. Answer the questions there; then leave a comment below so we’ll all know where to check out your responses. Please don’t forget to link us from your website!

1. If everyone carried personal cards (instead of business cards), what would you put on the line just beneath your name, where job titles usually go?
2. What’s your favorite card game?
3. How confidently and competently do you shuffle a deck of cards?
4. To whom did you last send a non-holiday, non-birthday greeting card?
5. When did you last jot something down on an index card?

Thanks for participating, and have an all-aces, safe weekend!

Hello, and welcome to this week’s Friday 5! Please copy these questions to your webspace. Answer the questions there; then leave a comment below so we’ll all know where to check out your responses. Please don’t forget to link us from your website!

Well shoot! I’m so late it’s almost not even Friday in Hawaii. I have 7 minutes. Doggone it. I just completely forgot, even as happy as I’ve been all day that it WAS Friday.

1. What book are you going to read next?
2. What movie will you most likely see next?
3. What are you doing the day after tomorrow?
4. This is going to be a great year, but what are you looking forward to next year?
5. What are you looking forward to opening once you’ve used up the current product?

Thanks for participating, and have a terrific 2025 and a safe weekend!

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1. What’s the best thing you read this year?
2. What was your best purchase this year?
3. Which cloud had a silver lining this year?
4. When in 2024 were you happiest?
5. What would you like more of, and what would you like less of in 2025?

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1. What was especially good for your mental health this year?
2. What was especially good for your physical health this year?
3. What did you learn this year?
4. As this year ends, what’s trending to make you optimistic about next year?
5. What’s better now than it was twelve months ago?

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Woooo am I late with these. I’ve had a truly nasty cold since two Tuesdays ago and it’s driving me kind of insane. I was supposed to see Wicked last week with a person I’m trying to get to know — it would have been our first alone time: we were going to have breakfast , catch the late-morning flick, and then walk to a bookstore nearby — but your friend was still coughing like the old geezer he’s turning into, so that didn’t happen.

The musical-loving bookworm took her mom instead, minus the bagels and bookstore.

However, with two weeks left in the year and plenty of time to make it a memorable 2024, this is happening now, about a day late. Yeesh.

1. What were your favorite TV series this year?
2. What were your favorite movies this year?
3. What was the most memorable meal you had this year?
4. Who made you laugh most this year?
5. When were you the farthest from home this year?

Thanks for participating, and have a comfy, safe weekend!

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I understand there are still three weeks left in the year, but if were to end right now:

1. What’s the best song you heard for the first time in 2024?
2. How would you summarize 2024 in one song lyric?
3. Where did you hear the best live music of any kind, performed by musicians of any age or talent?
4. Whose music did you listen to most?
5. What was the most compelling music-related news or event of 2024?

Thanks for participating, and have a melodious, safe weekend!

Hello, and welcome to this week’s Friday 5! Please copy these questions to your webspace. Answer the questions there; then leave a comment below so we’ll all know where to check out your responses. Please don’t forget to link us from your website!

1. When did you last serve something (or have something served to you) on a platter?
2. When did you last touch something made of wax?
3. When did you last record your voice?
4. When did you last stick an adhesive vinyl sticker to something?
5. Do you still have something in your house that plays digital video discs (DVDs) or compact discs (CDs)?

Thanks for playing, and have a groovy, safe weekend!

Hello, and welcome to this week’s Friday 5! Please copy these questions to your webspace. Answer the questions there; then leave a comment below so we’ll all know where to check out your responses. Please don’t forget to link us from your website!

1. Among people who are professionally funny, who most reliably makes you laugh?
2. Which films have made you laugh most?
3. Whose comedy leaves you flat?
4. When did you most recently laugh aloud at something you read?
5. What are some of your favorite novelty songs?

Thanks for participating, and there’s only one Friday left before NaNoWriMo is finally over, so hopefully I can get back on track with publishing these on time. Sorry.