Well, I seem to have been tagged by the Reverend Doctor Love, and apparently am bound by some unknown cannon law to fulfill the terms presented to me.  Very well, let us have the rules:

Here are the rules: 1) Link back to the person who tagged you (that= me!). 2) Post the rules on your blog. 3) Write six things about yourself. 4) Tag six people at the end of your post by posting links to their blog sites. 5) Let them know they’ve been tagged by leaving a comment on their site. 6) And let your tagger know when your entry is up.

1.  I have read the entire Bible.  Yep, the whole thing, cover to cover.  It took me just over a year (counting the 3 month break I took halfway through the Old Testament.)  And that is counting the Apocrypha, because the Bible that I read is a NRSV that includes the canon from the Catholic, Greek, and Slavonic churches, without all the denominational dogma.  I took the time to read all of those extra books, because, in my opinion, if it was important enough to make it into a particular group's canon, and it doesn't cause contradictions, then it can't really hurt.  I actually own multiple Bible translations, but I mostly used them for cross reference purposes, because the NRSV is my favorite.  And if you're wondering, my favorite book is the Gospel According to John.

2.  I believe that buying healthy cereal is blasphemy.  Remember when you were a kid, and you'd wake up on Saturday morning, grab a bowl of cereal, and plant your butt in front of the television to watch hours and hours of cartoons?  Wasn't that fun?  Breakfast used to be fun!  You'd sit there, watching your Ninja Turtles, and every 5 or so minutes they'd go to a commercial break, and tell you that you were eating the wrong cereal!   And you believed it!  It was awesome!  Well, I refuse to dishonor such happy memories.  I still believe that breakfast can and should be that much fun.  I mean, c'mon, you're probably going to get pissed off by some idiot driver before you get to your job/school/destination, so why not have a little bit of fun before you face all of that?  But you can't do it with All Bran, you can't do it with Total, Special K, Kashi, Muselix, or any of that other menagerie of cardboard chunks disguised as food.  No sir, you need your ass come Coco Puffs, some Cap'n Crunch, Fruity Pebbles, or Lucky Charms.  As long as it has a cartoon mascot, you're good to go.  Better still if it comes with a toy. 

3.  I hated Jimmy Buffett's last album.  Crap... I think I just made half of my friends have some sort of cardiovascular distress.  Yes, it's true, I, the Parrothead to end all Parrotheads, hated a Buffett album.  But this isn't unusual, I actually hated most of the albums that he put out in the 80's.  Why?  For the same reasons I hated his latest album:  it was sloppy, boring, and at times, patronizing.  I thought Jimmy had moved past all of that, but apparently one Alan Jackson was a bad influence.  Boy, I sure do hope those EMTs revived you guys...

4.  My favorite thing to bake is bread.  It's just something about taking all day to make food, I dunno, it's just good for the soul.  And I love working with yeast, I think they're the best microorganisms ever.  Also, I knead my bread by hand, exclusively.  Yes it hurts, yes I am always sore afterwards, yes it pisses off my arthritis, but it's just so... rewarding.

5.  I still love dinosaurs.  I just never grew out of them.  If there's a special on the Discovery Channel about dinosaurs, or anything remotely related to dinosaurs or paleontology in general, my ass will be parked right in front of the television, and I won't be moved until it's over.

6.  My gumbo kung-fu is stronger than your gumbo kung-fu.  I've been making gumbo for about a year now, and I love it.  It's like a fever that gets into your bones and lays dormant, but every couple of months is rises back up... and you must make gumbo, lest you die!  Like I said, I have only been at this for a year, but I have never burned a roux.  Never.  And it always comes out fantastic.  Now, I'm not saying I could take on a professional, not yet anyway, but I'm sure my gumbo could hold its own against any amateur out there.  So bring it on!

Very well, I am finished.  So the following people... consider yerselves tagged!

Burn, doc_krashenbern
Nona, wasouthard
Matt, agentbraddick
Sarah, tresjolie9
Juli, squee4242

And of course, that hippie ninja bastard Piper, peace_piper