Have you had a doctor look at that thing?

What's your other side like?

Arse-hat - yes, and a vigorous regimen of creams, steroids and intravenous drugs were applied.

Mdonley - my other side is a self-deprecating, warm, sweet, clumsy, distracted Little Rascal.

What should I be for Halloween?

Toastedbeagle - why not just be a toastedbeagle? Find a beagle costume, fill a flask with your fave hooch, and stagger around town asking to be petted?

'sfun, really - I've done it, but without the beagle costume. I just told people I was one.

What's your favorite 1966-73 era cocktail-hour appetizer?

Can you find me a guy (or girl) to love and snuggle and perhaps to call "George"?

What's your favorite sing-in-the-shower song?

Stewriffic - a flat slice of mackerel fillet.

Trishalynn - herein lies your dilemma: the perhaps. If you don't commit to the George Name kink, you'll never be satisfied by either gender.
Your next partner you should just call George, with no permission. If she/he says, "no, my name is ____", you just casually reply, "Su-ure it is, George, sure it is."

Toastedbeagle: I don't sing in the shower, I make up my own tunes, usually. Little rhythms that I end up forgetting in an hour or so.

We could also just play Yahtzee or gin rummy.

Oh, sweet merciful Zeus, this sounds great to me. I've spent the last three --- count 'em, three --- weeks tethered more or less to the couch, and I would knock out a kitten for the chance to have a real live in-person gin rummy partner.

My oldest friend and I call each other George. Hold out for it, TrishaLynn.

Question: How much is too much to pay for a sofa? How much is too little? Do you call it a sofa, a couch, or a davenport? If I live in a smoochyfaced, no-you're-the-sweetie household, is buying a loveseat just overkill?

Whatcha reading?

Whatcha smelling?

Elsa - no one buys loveseats anymore. Why buy a piece of furniture that is really just a psychological placeholder for the missing couch you want?

I wouldn't pay over 200 bucks for a sofa. I wouldn't buy a new one. Whatever you do, make sure way before hand that the couch in question can actually fit in the dimensions of your house.

My new neighbors upstairs discovered the joy of old New England architecture when all of their big items couldn't wrangle up the narrow corners of our apt. bldg.

Jonathanstrange:

The Unit, by Ninni Holmqvist
Hell, by Robert Olen Butler

Moonshine - nothing. Nose is stuffed up and I'm currently practicing my mouthbreathing skills.

How many tissues have you used today?
Or are you all organic with a washable cotton hankie?

Rmless2 - both. I have a hanky and I also go with the Kleenexes.

So far today, I think I've used up something like two rolls of toilet paper total. How many is a sleeve's-worth?

If you could somehow change one thing about how you believe others generally perceive you- something we get wrong, or something that would never occur because it's either too subtle for our minds to grasp or perhaps even something that doesn't actually exist, but should- what would it be?

What is your favorite/best/funniest anecdote about your family/from your childhood?

Like, what's the deal with your name? When I first came to Metachat I thought you were a female based on your name. But it is my understanding that you are not a female. What does LT mean? Do people call you that in real life? What are the names of your brothers and sisters? Thanks for taking my question and I hope you feel better soon.

If you had a capybara as a pet, what would you name it? It is the world's largest rodent.

Notquitemaryann - that I'm an insanely-hot lover in the sack.

CitrusFreak 12 - I'll give you two: my first-ever date ended with me getting a plain donut popped in my mouth instead of a kiss on the front porch of a girl I had a crazy crush on.

Also, once I took too much Mylanta fluid to deal with an upset stomach before a train trip and ended up neutralizing all the stomach acid I had for 72 hours and it gave me the most toxic, foul-chemical smelling and uncontrollable flatulence.

Kangaroo - LT = Lipstick Thespian, and Matildaben gave it to me as my official "Metafilter/chat" nick years ago for my first meetup. I'm an actor by avocation, so it stuck. Only people in the Metaverse call me LT in real life. My brothers and sister's name are TL, Ellte, Lopstock Thenspy and Little Tee.

Heyallie - If I had a capybara as a pet, it would be because I was in mourning for the dog I should have had as a pet, but someone decided to give me a capybara instead.

.....definitely the one answer that will not prompt a follow-up question. Good choice, that!

Is there a recent picture of you online?

Obscure Reference - the most recent pic of me online is what I use for my facebook pic - do a search for the words Porkpie Hat and you'll find me.

What makes you so awesome, Mr. LT?

Special-k: define what you mean by "awesome."

Oh, also - something to know: my all-time favorite type of pop music is 60's prefab stuff. My all-time favorite pop band is Herman's Hermits.

Other huge faves - The Searchers, Freddie and the Dreamers, The Swinging Blue Jeans, Ohio Express, etc.

Please say there are metachatters who dig this stuff, too. Best music ever.

What does the future hold for Planet Earth? As you answer this question, what is the bed music?

the future is an almost spastic renewal of common sense and hope. We get over all our shit. We drink beer with people we don't know.

A new take on 30's jazz comes out in 2010 that symbolizes all of this and makes one think of Bix Beiderbecke, only filtered through a really rubbery dub mix.

"We drink beer with people we don't know."

Which beer?

LT, please tell me why people have impossible crushes on people who are impossibly far away? Why do humans do that? It doesn't seem logical.

LT, hope you are feeling better soon.

In terms of your question, what are your greatest weaknesses and your greatest strengths?

You know, keeping with the interview practice and all.

Also, as a general Ask LT Anything bonus:
I just got over what I'm pretty sure was the piggy sniffles and now my kids seem to be coming down with it, too. Should I shoot them now? We're all from hardy stock, so I'm thinking no for now. Still, more time away from paying work is a bummer. Love, LW13

I'm really lame at online (Facebook) Scrabble, but happy to play anyway. Start a game and add me if you feel up to it.

James Dean or Montgomery Clift?

Lt, how can I reconcile the fact that without a deadline I become a complete lab-rat zombie and while I profess to detest this state, I'm not actually doing anything to stop it?

Faineant - the Beer of Drunken Reconciation and Expiation. Also known as a Black and Tan.

Typewriter - because it adds to the mystery. People love to not know as much about a person as they already know. When you're crushed out on a person who's far away, it only adds another level of sweet crushiness on that person.

If they were with you every day, you'd start noticing that the shirt they're wearing has a hole, or is wrinkled on one you told them you didn't like and they're WEARING IT ANYWAY.

We crush out on the impossible because it allows us all the room to idealize someone without having to do the mundane work of being with that person all the time.

Lilywing 13: My greatest strength and my greatest weakness are the same thing. Just different in how I express them: I can be both enormously patient and insanely impulsive. I have a great sense of humor that sometimes comes out black as pitch.

Everyone is the same way. I think a true strength would be to live in the world where people aren't constantly quantifying these things.

Brujita - can't say. I haven't seen enough Montgomery Clift movies to judge. I loved James Dean as a kid, though.

The Whelk - because human nature is made up equally of the absolute need to Be Told What To Do And When and also of the Fuck You, I Won't Do What You Tell Me instinct. Safety and Security vs. Adventure and Imagination.

The reason it's hard is that when we make our own deadlines, we put a ton of pressure on ourselves - the worst kind, because when you tell YOURSELF what you need to do, it sounds like a judgment you can't escape.

But when someone else does that same thing, it absolves you of the need to demand it of yourself. We like this because internally we believe that someone else's standards aren't nearly as high as our own, so it's easier to accomplish something.

Should I be worried that I can't remember the start of October? At All.