Andrea
animal: cat
city: Paris (Lisbon is a close second)
flower: peony
food: potato
season: the cold months
song: Arabella (Arctic Monkeys)

Barb
book: The Power of Now (Tolle)
hike: Guy Fleming Trail in Torrey Pines State Park (CA)
hobby: telescope
hockey team: Red Wings*
movie: Groundhog Day
plant: orchid and monstera
season: autumn (campfires and trick-or-treaters)
town: Hendersonville NC

Ben
album: El Camino (The Black Keys)
city: Portland
director: Denis Villeneuve
food: pad thai
movie: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
song: Should Have Known Better (Sufjan Stevens)
tv show: 30 Rock

Eleanor
city: New York or Paris
copper: Morse
barrister: Rumpole
jazz venue: Freedom Jazz Dance (WDCE)
university: Cambridge (UK)

Eric
book: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (Dickens)
city: York PA
comedian: Eric Hohman*
hockey player: Duane “Hit 'Em with Your Purse” Rupp
movie: It's a Wonderful Life
ski resort: White Pass WA
wrestler: André the Giant

Greg
artist: Robert Smithson
artist-researcher: Allen S. Weiss
athlete: Roberto Clemente
band: Beatles
book (fiction): Bouvard and Pécuchet (Flaubert)
book (nonfiction): And the Wolf Finally Came: The Decline and Fall of the American Steel Industry (Hoerr)
building: Wilpen Hall (Sewickley Heights PA) or 65 Ordale
city: New York
comedian: Greg Hohman*
dessert: malted vanilla milk shake
food: pizza
language: Deutsch
movie: Julien Donkey-Boy
school: Markham
singer: Sinatra
song (new): Simé Love (Dowdelin)
song (old): My Cherie Amour (Stevie Wonder)**
theater performance: The Wooster Group’s Hamlet or House/Lights
tv show: Mad Men
writer: John Updike

Jane
beach: Torrey Pines (CA)
comedian: Kevin Hart
dessert: ice cream
fast food: Chick-fil-A
food: pizza
language: gif and sarcasm*
park: Balboa (CA)
sport: soccer

Lauren
car: 1999 Subaru Forester
city: Pittsburgh
school: University of Michigan*
website: Ordalia

Leah
city: Raleigh
school course: World Population and Food Prospects 
music artist: Amy Winehouse 
meal: brunch
grocery store: Trader Joe's

Ruth
bridge: Manhattan
building: Starbucks at Broadway between 70th and 71st
city: New York
park: Central
song: Manhattan (Blossom Dearie)
street: Broadway
subway: New York
tidal estuary: Hudson

Suzanne
animal: cat
artist: Robert Smithson
city: Paris
element: water
food: sushi
philosopher: Jacques Derrida
professor: Richard Sieburth
song: Lemon (U2)

Tom
book (historical fiction): The Island at the Center of the World (Shorto)
book (nonfiction): Unbroken (Hillenbrand)
book (political nonfiction): The Trust Committed to Me (Sanford) or Team of Rivals (Kearns Goodwin)
breakfast: non-dairy yogurt with fruit, pecans and granola
brother: undecided (Ken is my first thought since he contributed to one-sided trouncings in sports contests against Greg & Eric)*
comedian: Tom Hohman*
dessert: ice cream (two flavors in combo: fruit and chocolate)
garden: Huntington (CA) or Longwood (PA) or Brookgreen (SC)
hobby: gardening
movie/tv genre: murder mystery
sport to play: tennis (formerly volleyball)
sport to watch: hockey, soccer or tennis
writer: David Liss


* under administrative review

** These tunes…offered me their secrets, ogled me, came up to me with affected or vulgar movements, accosted me, caressed me as if I had suddenly become more seductive, more powerful and more rich; I indeed found in these tunes an element of cruelty; because any such thing as a disinterested feeling for beauty, a gleam of intelligence was unknown to them; for them physical pleasures alone existed…But while I was humming softly to myself the notes of this tune, and returning its kiss, the pleasure peculiar to itself which it made me feel became so dear to me that I would have left my father and mother, to follow it through the singular world which it constructed in the invisible…Although such a pleasure as this is not calculated to enhance the value of the person to whom it comes, for it is perceived by him alone…I felt myself more powerful, almost irresistible. It seemed to me that my love was no longer something unattractive, at which people might smile, but had precisely the touching beauty, the seductiveness of this music [ ] suddenly grown intimate. Marcel Proust