!Christina's 5 questions --- agk's diary 8 December 2022 @ 05:58 UTC --- written on GPD Win 1 via PowerShell OpenSSH while Evy and first daughter visit Evy's mama --- I love to answer Christina's questions and read others' answers; thrilled she wrote 5 new ones! gopher://sdf.org:70/1/users/christyotwisty 1. What's the best thing about where you live? I love where I live; hard to pick best thing! - Home's where Evy, first daughter, roommate are; they're here. - This's the most beautiful place in the world. - Rent's 650 USD/month for 3 bedrooms, garage, fenced yard. - We walk to the creek, grocery store, post office, photocopy shop, hospital, bank. - Good friends, good library. Our state expand- ed Medicaid. Down to earth people. Kids play outside, in streets, with each other. - McDonalds PlayPlace and good truck stop. 2. What real-life person has a phenomenal underdog story? Lots of people born in the 1890s and 1900s. Tito for instance: "Young Croat metalworker, Josip Brozovitch.... Born 1892, 7th of 15 children in impoverished home in a small village, Josip completed elem- entary school before leaving home to work as locksmith & mechanic. Enlisting in a Croat regiment to fight for Austria in WWI, he rose to warrant-officer rank, was badly wounded & captured by the Russians, learned the language & in 1917 joined the Bolsheviks. "He married a Russian, fought with the Kirgiz nomads, who were Mongol horsemen, and in 1920 returned to what'd become Yugoslavia, a state of some 12M persons. Josip Broz, as he had be- come, worked as a party organizer and agitator slowly rising in the party while fathering a family and spending a good many years in jail. "In 1935 he worked for the Comintern, then re- turned to Yugoslavia to set up a "rat-line" which fed some 1500 volunteers to the fighting in Spain; many of his future generals fought with international brigades. In 1937 the Kremlin liquidated his boss and made him secr- etary-general of the Yugoslav party. Tito, as he was now known, reorganized the party, raising its membership to 12k, a small but disciplined group dedicated to the Communist ideal."[^1] Then he led the most effective anti-Nazi/anti- local-fascist partisan troops, headed a multi- ethnic, multi-religious socialist Yugoslavia for 30 years, and founded the non-aligned move- ment with Egypt's Nasser, India's Nehru, Indo- nesia's Sukarno, and Ghana's Nkrumah.[^2] Born in the 1950s, Zapatista officer Comand- anta Ramona was also one hell of an underdog. 3. What's the best Wikipedia page you've stumbled across? I use the subset in the WikiEM project as my vade mecum in a pinch. 4. You opened your own restaurant/bar. What's your specialty? Low-cost poor people's food in hot countries. Served in a squatted solarpunk social center. Maybe my brother'd be the head chef, or my old friend Suncere Shakur. I'd hang out telling jokes, talking politics, listening to joys & sorrows, sticking acupuncture needles in ears. There'd be an open mic, good ventilation, and a little one-bed clinic in a backroom. 5. With what author would you like to hang around for a day? Gillian Rose, Agnes Heller, Hannah Arendt, or Doris Lessing. Or Paulo Friere, Charles Sanders Peirce, Soren Kierkegaard, young GWF Hegel. Note ---- [1]:RB Asprey (1975), War in the shadows, the guerrilla in history. Doubleday. [2] Some other underdogs born about the same time: - shtetl-born tubercular Jewish circus strong- man Joe "The Mighty Atom" Greenstein, - author, anthropologist, filmmaker Zora Neale Hurston, who went up against Jim Crow and the Harlem Renaissance at the same time, - New Orleans Colored Waifs Home alumni, blues & boogie-woogie pianist-singer, boxing champ & 2-year POW of Imperial Japan Champion Jack Dupree, - union organizer Clara Lemlich.