Tim Brough's Black Leather Bookshelf

March is Ask-Me-Anything Month!

Ask me anything you like..

Also let me know if you'd like me to not identify you as the questioner.

Your results:
You are An Expendable Character (Redshirt)

An Expendable Character (Redshirt) 75% Geordi LaForge 65% Chekov 60% Uhura 60% Jean-Luc Picard 55% Beverly Crusher 50% Will Riker 45% Deanna Troi 45% Spock 42% Data 42% Leonard McCoy (Bones) 35% James T. Kirk (Captain) 30% Mr. Scott 30% Worf 15% Mr. Sulu 0%

Since your accomplishments are seldom noticed, and you are rarely thought of, you are expendable. That doesn't mean your job isn't important but if you were in Star Trek you would be killed off in the first episode you appeared in.

Click here to take the Star Trek Personality Quiz

dorisduke wanted to ask: what is the last thing you want us to know about you?

That I am painfully shy and suffer from chronic depression, probably.

Then andybr asked: What is that on your head?

That is a skullcap made from flash cotton. It took three attempts to catch the flame in the picture, as the cotton burns in - literally - a flash. It felt like someone shot a blast of hair-dryer hot air at me as we tried to get the right image.

Finally, technocyberbot said "Might as well ask you about common interest then..." Are you usually or always the more Dominant or submissive in you bdsm relationships, and do you carry that mindset into your everyday life in how you deal with others?

Submissive, and yes, I tend to be that way in my everyday life. On the other hand, I am an opinionated man and can be forcefully as well as fiercely loyal in protecting my friends.

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Tough call, but probably "Tug Of War." I was in college at the time and that was the album paul released in response to the assassination of John Lennon. It helped sooth me through that year of studies. Along with Costello's "Armed Forces," probably the two albums I played most through my 4 years of college.

Courtesy of mudcub And frick

Are you actively trying to find a boyfriend/Master/playpartner right now? Just curious.

Joel is always going to be my Daddy Bear. But that doesn't rule out a Master, play partner and new friends. Both Joel and I are open in the relationship we have.

How many of these 100 movies have YOU seen? Copy the list, and mark those you've seen with a + sign. The winner is listed first for all past years.

2011
127 Hours
Black Swan
The Fighter
+Inception
The Kids Are All Right
The King's Speech
+The Social Network
Toy Story 3
True Grit
Winter's Bone

2010
+The Hurt Locker
A Serious Man
An Education
+Avatar
+District 9
+Inglourious Basterds
Precious
The Blind Side
+Up
Up in the Air

2009
+Slumdog Millionaire
+The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
+Frost/Nixon
+Milk
The Reader

2008
+No Country for Old Men
Atonement
+Juno
+Michael Clayton
+There Will Be Blood

2007
+The Departed
Babel
Letters from Iwo Jima
+Little Miss Sunshine
+The Queen

2006
+Crash
+Brokeback Mountain
+Capote
+Good Night, and Good Luck.
+Munich

2005
Million Dollar Baby
The Aviator
Finding Neverland
+Ray
+Sideways

2004
+The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Lost in Translation
+Master and Commander
Mystic River
Seabiscuit

2003
+Chicago
+Gangs of New York
The Hours
+The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
+The Pianist

2002
+A Beautiful Mind
+Gosford Park
In the Bedroom
+The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
+Moulin Rouge!

2001
+Gladiator
+Chocolat
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
+Erin Brockovich
+Traffic

2000
+American Beauty
The Cider House Rules
The Green Mile
+The Insider
+The Sixth Sense

1999
+Shakespeare in Love
Elizabeth
Life is Beautiful
+Saving Private Ryan
The Thin Red Line

1998
+Titanic
+As Good as It Gets
+The Full Monty
Good Will Hunting
+L.A. Confidential

1997
The English Patient
+Fargo
Jerry Maguire
Secrets & Lies
Shine

1996
+Braveheart
+Apollo 13
Babe
Il Postino
+Sense and Sensibility

1995
Forrest Gump
Four Weddings and a Funeral
+Pulp Fiction
Quiz Show
+The Shawshank Redemption

1994
+Schindler's List
+The Fugitive
In the Name of the Father
+The Piano
The Remains of the Day

Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here.

Instructions: Copy this list; bold those books you've read in their entirety. Italicize the ones you started but didn't finish or read only an excerpt.


1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of The Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (This is 7 books!!!)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 1984 - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (This is 3 books!!!)
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbitt - JR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie The Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazu Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare - again wasn't this covered?
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Day 26. A song that you can play on an instrument

"Oh Susannah" on harmonica.

Day 27. A song that you wish you could play.

Not that I wish I could play this song, but that if I was a guitarist, I was anywhere near as good as Al DiMeola (and he was quite a looker back in the day).

Day 23. A song that you want to play at your wedding.





Day 24. A song that you want to play at your funeral.

Two of them: In this Order

Alphaville:




The Kinks - a song that always makes me both happy and sad at the same time.

Day 16. A song that you used to love but now hate
None.

Day 17. A song that you hear (too) often on the radio.