omg this is so long aka taylor's questionnaire

1. What is your all time favorite Nora Ephron film?

For some reason, I thought Nora Ephron was somehow related to the movie Big. Apparently she's not. So I guess I choose When Harry Met Sally, too.

2. Suppose you are curled up and just chilling- would you be snacking on: chips/salsa, ice cream, or apples with peanut butter?

Salsa, but only really, really hot salsa

3. What is going on with Drew Barrymore?

I don't think anything's going on with her that's any different from what's been going on with her for her entire life -- i.e. that she's annoying.

4. Who do you most identify with in Steel Magnolias? Miss Truvy, Annelle, Clairee, Shelby,
or Ouiser (weezer)?

Wait what about M'Lynn? She is the steeliest magnolia of them all. Once, when I was on a teen bus tour across the United States, I met a girl whose house was where they shot the Christmas party scenes.

5. Veronica Mars or Twin Peaks?

N/A

6. Favorite place to eat in the state of Virginia?

In Richmond...Benny’s BBQ or Thai’s Mama (aka Mom’s Siam). They are both in the same shopping center; it also includes a Tuesday Morning, a Junior League thrift store, a vacuum cleaner repair shop, a Mexican grocery store, a payday loans place, a bar where people get shot sometimes, and, somehow, a flea market. It is one of my favorite shopping centers of all time..

In Charlottesville...I'm not really that attached to any one place. Wherever is least crowded I guess; also wherever is NOT Sal's Ristorante or whatever on the Downtown Mall. Sal's is my LEAST favorite place to eat in the state/commonwealth of Virginia.

7. Cartoons for adults- yay or nay?

Not for this adult. Or for this adult when she was a child. I can't stand cartoons. UGH cartoons

8. What was one of your favorite hobbies when you were a kid that you would never participate in now?

Um, I was into geneaology for a while, and I guess I wouldn't participate in that now. I literally used to go to a nursing home on Saturday mornings and take classes about geneaology from old people. Yeah, I would never do that now.

9. Favorite hot dog condiment?

I think relish is a pretty fascinating phenomenon.

10. When you aren't chilling, would you choose basketball, baseball, or racquetball?

I don't get this question, or all the references to "chilling." I like to watch baseball games live, and I can beat almost anyone in a game of Horse, which Kyle mentioned below (she mentions the game below, not the fact that I can beat almost anyone at it, though that's still true). I have a signature shot that I can make 9 out of 10 times, which unnerves people and makes them miss theirs.

11. If you had to choose one HMPV contributor to plan a chillfest for you-including the environment, movies/tv, and eats- who would you pick and what type of chillfest do you think they would plan?

I don't know any HMPV contributors. Is that like someone who carries an STD? Who are you people?

12. America's Next Top Model (ANTM) vs. Search for the Next Pussycat Doll- which one is more addictive?

I don't think I'll even dignify this question with an answer, except to say that I think ANTM is more addictive.

13. Favorite Wes Anderson created character?

Max, Max's dad, and all the male Tenenbaums

14. Did you do your own taxes this year? If not, who did? How much was your refund?

No, my dad is an accountant, so he did them. I don't know how much the refund was because he keeps it as his fee. When I start to argue with that, I think about how they say it costs parents a million dollars to raise a kid these days, and I stop talking.

15. Did you want to be named something else when you were younger? What?

Yes, constantly. It's really logistically confusing to go by your middle name, especially since, back in the day, Taylor was generally a boys' name. I wanted to reclaim my first name (Ann), which I tried to do once, on my first day of Vacation Bible School the year after second grade. I vividly remember writing Ann on my name tag. Only there were two kids from my school in my class, and they wouldn’t call me Ann, so no one else did either. Bastards.

16. Who is your favorite founding father?

I wanted to try to pick someone other than TJ, but I like that bed at Monticello that lifts up into the ceiling too much to pick anyone else