Getting to know your editors

We here at IR just received the latest issue of Slab, another literary magazine. Very cute, sexy, and fun.

Along with bios, the staff of Slab asked their contributors to answer this cool 8 piece Q&A list below. I thought it would be fun to interrogate our editors with it. Thank you so very much Slab! Me love you long time.


1. What is your favorite guilty pleasure?

Abdel: Black jelly beans

Jenny: (For the record, I don't think pleasure should be guilty.) Terrible MTV shows, like Next and Parental Control

Danny: Fried food (but only as long as I don't get sick)

Hannah: http://gofugyourself.typepad.com


2. How do you take your coffee?

A: With cream
J: Lots of sugar, lots of cream -- as far from coffee as possible. Prefer Tea
D: Condensed milk (Vietnamese style!)

H: Black or with a little cream, depending on the time of day

3. Who were you in a previous life?

A: Joan of Arc
J: Mira Bai
D: A farmer

H: probably not a writer

4. Who or what is your greatest influence?

A: James Baldwin
J: Poverty
D: Marilyn Manson
H: ?

5. What is the worst film you ever paid to see?

A: Soul Plane
J: Star Wars I: The Phantom Menace
D: Showgirls (But then again, I bought it on dvd, as well as the special edition box set.)
H: Deep Blue Sea. Samuel L. Jackson getting eaten by a shark in the middle of an inspirational monologue...well, you don't see that every day.


6. What is the best thing you can buy for a dollar?

A: Little Debbie Oatmeal Cream Pie Sandwich
J: Sour Patch Kids
D: Firecrackers

H: A really good bagel

7. What is the worst present you ever received?

A: I once received the presence of Rutherford B. Hayes. Terrible presence
J: ?
D: Tighty-whites for Christmas
H: Probably some kind of inspirational decorative object


8. What is your favorite word?

A: Circuitous
J: Cup
D: #$@*
H: Gravitas


-danny