NEEDFUL THINGS: One of those Internet things, from Tepper. (Hey dude, come play with us some time. We must watch grimsome movies together.)

Favorite Color: Black, black, black is the color of my true love’s hair…. (Yeah, it’s an affectation, but ’tis mine own, baby.)

Favorite Flower: Lilac trees in the heart of town, on the street where you live.

Favorite Scent: Commercial: Yves St. Laurent Rive Gauche. So chemical! So “Metropolis”!

Nature Is a Language, Can’t You Read?: Lilacs. Also, girls sweating. I mean, glowing.

Favorite Cocktail: Ummm… does Kentucky Lemonade count?

Favorite Wine (if any): Cheap white with canned peaches in it.

Favorite Soda/Drink: Coke Is It.

Favorite Food: Portuguese roll + canned corn + plum tomato + mushrooms + Vidalia onion + artichoke heart + munster cheese, wrap in aluminum foil and cook 15 mins. at 375. Sooooo good.

Favorite Restaurant: Pizzeria Paradiso. Wait, I mean the Yankee Doodle….

Favorite Treat: Escargot. Oh the feel of the buttered antennae slithering down your throat!

Favorite Candy: Anything Godiva dark.

Favorite Number: Um. Seventeen? I’m not a math person.

Favorite day of the year: Whenever the first heat wave starts.

Favorite Season: August in D.C. Yes, I am the one person who loves it. Swamp rockin’ yo.

Favorite Holiday: Easter for real, Fourth of July for fun.

Favorite Game: Canasta rummy.

Your addictions are: How much time we got?

If you had a whole day to yourself, alone, and you wanted to treat yourself, what would you do?: See a matinee movie, visit the new Hall of Mammals at the Natural History Museum, read Philip Roth, and buy comics.

If you had an extra $200 that you didn’t need to spend on bills or debt, what would you buy with it?: Movies.