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23 June, 2018

Welcome to Saturday 9. What we've committed to our readers is that we will post 9 questions every Saturday. Sometimes the post will have a theme, and at other times the questions will be totally unrelated. Those weeks we do "random questions," so-to-speak. We encourage you to visit other participants posts and leave a comment. Because we don't have any rules, it is your choice. We hate rules. We love memes, however, and here is today's meme! 

Saturday 9: Shut Up + Dance (2014)

Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here.
 

1) This is about a man who meets the woman who is his destiny on the dance floor. Do you think we each have One Great Love preordained by fate? Or do you think life offers each of us many opportunities for romance?

If you live long enough, you are offered many opportunities...starting in Kindergarten!

2) Lead singer Nick Petricca says this song is inspired by a true story. He was all keyed up and his girlfriend dragged him onto the dance floor, insisting that dancing would cheer him up. Therefore he considers this song an "anthem to letting go and having fun." Think of the last time you really had fun. Who were you with? What were you doing?

Probably last time we were in Santa Barbara (months ago) when my granddaughter led a book club meeting.

3) The dance floor incident that inspired this song took place in Echo Park, an LA neighborhood located near Elysian Park and Chinatown. Tell us about your village or city. Do the neighborhoods have interesting names?

Well, this is a fairly small city. We have East Davis, West Davis , South Davis and North Davis.  There is Village Homes (the country's very first all-solar housing development, visited by Rosaline Carter when it was officially opened), and Baggins End, a University housing development with all the houses looking like "hobbit holes."

4) Walk the Moon promoted this record by a performance on Good Morning America. Are you enthusiastic and energetic at 7:00 AM? Or do you hit your stride later in the day?

I used to be an early riser, and still am, but "early" is often 3 a.m., and after a couple of hours, I fall back asleep, sometimes until 9 a.m.

5) "Shut Up + Dance" is the biggest hit by Walk the Moon. The bandmembers met as at Kenyon, Ohio's oldest private college. Tell us about something that's old and revered where you live.

There was a wonderful old oak tree that everyone loved.   They built a plaza around it called "Oak Tree Plaza," and in the process of building the plaza, they killed the tree.

6) Walk the Moon took their name from the Police song, "Walking on the Moon." What's your favorite song by Sting and/or The Police?

Not familiar with either

7) In 2014, the year this song was popular, Robin Williams took his own life. What's your favorite Robin Williams performance?

I loved everything he did, but maybe my favorite(s) were Mrs. Doubtfire and Patch Adams.

8) Also in 2014, the Apple Watch was introduced. Are you wearing a watch as you answer these 9 questions?

I haven't worn a watch in years.

9) Random question -- You must create a coat of arms for yourself, representing your life and spirit. Which of these items would you place at the center: a heart, a sword, or a pen?

My family has a coat of arms that has a bloody dagger at its center. The story behind it is that our relative, Robert Kirkpatrick, was a friend of Robert the Bruce.  It is said that Kirkpatrick met the Bruce rushing out of a church exclaiming that he thought he had killed "the Red" Comyn, chief of Clan Comyn and that Kirkpatrick then drew his dagger with the words, I mak siccar ("I'll make sure"); the clan motto and chief's coat of arms allude to this story.

However, for my own personal coat of arms, being a pacifist, I would much prefer a pen.

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Resting her foot after stepping on a sea urchin.
 

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