The Meme of Four

Think of the idea of the "meme" as the blog equivalent of the chain letter. (Via MaxSpeak.)

The idea is to come up with four items for the categories listed below. Try it yourself! It's a great way to avoid doing productive work.

Four Jobs You’ve Had

1. Assistant Editor at St. Martin's Press
2. Research Assistant to You-Know-Who
3. Managing editor of Micro Publishing News/Digital Imaging
4. Whatever it is I do now

Four Movies You Could Watch Over and Over

1. Airplane!
2. Either of the first two Godfather movies
3. Any Marx Brothers movie up to and including Night at the Opera
4. Any of the first six Star Trek movies (even numbers only)

Four Places You’ve Lived

1. Salem, NH
2. Astoria, Queens, NY
3. Torrance, CA
4. Saratoga Springs, NY

Four TV Shows You Love to Watch

1. Star Trek
2. Babylon 5
3. Arrested Development
4. Sports Night/The West Wing (i.e., anything Aaron Sorkin has written)

Four Places You’ve Been on Vacation

1. Outer Banks, North Carolina
2. Bar Harbor, Maine
3. Yellowstone National Park
4. Arizona

Four Blogs You Visit Daily

1. Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal
2. Eschaton
3. Gizmodo
4. Marginal Revolution

Four of Your Favorite Foods

1. The buffalo chicken tender sandwich at the Stadium Cafe in Saratoga
2. Sushi
3. Almost anything involving crustaceans.
4. Buffalo wings from Sal's Birdland in Syracuse

Four Places You’d Rather Be

1. Manhattan, but only as depicted in Woody Allen movies
2. That department store in the Twilight Zone episode with the mannequins that came alive
3. The Starship Enterprise
4. The Village (in The Prisoner)

Four Albums You Can’t Live Without

1. Anything by Robyn Hitchcock, but especially Globe of Frogs
2. Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon
3. The Kinks Village Green Preservation Society
4. Rush Moving Pictures

Four Vehicles You’ve Owned

1. An ancient Cutlass Supreme I bought extremely used in 1984 when I was a junior in high school.
2. A slightly less ancient Dodge Aspen I bought no less used in 1985 when I was a senior in high school after the Cutlass died.
3. Had no car from 1986 to 1997. (The "good old days.")
4. The Saturn I bought in 1997 and still have.