I’m running rather late on this, but I’ll try for an answer just the same. Dan asked on Friday: In all your life’s travels, what are your five favorite spots that you’d most like to visit again to be able to share the spot with friends/family? Was it the place itself or the experiences you had there? To be honest, I still feel relatively poorly traveled compared to a lot of people I know. So it’s going to be a little difficult to answer this question. But I’ll try my best: Rue Ste.-Laurent, Montreal. I think I’m remembering the name …

Oh my God, I’ve got to stop submitting questions to our Friday Five: My question for this week turns to Time Travel again, but this time, it’s a Connie Willis sort. In her novels, characters often return to some time period in the past in order to do research; time travelers are very often historians, and archeologists have been rendered all but obsolete. If you were able to propose five such trips, assuming that one would work and that you would have to go and actually live in that time period, researching it and studying it for up to a …

This week’s Friday Five was asked with a brevity I’ve only seldom been able to muster myself. Dan asks: What are the five happiest moments you’ve had with pets? Given that my life has been relatively low in terms of concentration of pets, I’m going to have a few repeat appearances by the same dogs. You’ll have to forgive me. The day we found Toto. Our dog Toto (yes, shut up) ran away in terror one rainstormy night and it took three days before she turned up again. A neighbour found her with torn up pads on her paws, whining …

Friday Five, a few days late, from the evil mind of… oh, gee, that’s my question: You’re given a chance to use a time machine to snatch five historical personages and bring them to the twenty-first century. Perhaps you’re saving them from their awful fates in history, or perhaps just picking them up for teatime and a Saturday night dinner party. The catch is, there’s a problem with the time machine and a possibility that you will need to house all of them in your living space for a few days, pehaps up to a week. So they’d better get …

This week’s Friday Five from the musings of Laura at Green Boogers: I was watching Disney’s Sleeping Beauty the other night, while leafing through an old storybook for the original story, and I found myself snorting at the gifts the precious little princess got – gifts of beauty and song, virtue and kindness – So very useful. What five gifts would you give the fateful little princess? Woah. This one just blew me off course. I didn’t know she got any gifts, actually. I had to look online for a version of the story, and among the ones on this …

This week, Adam asks us: You’ve been given the choice of having 5 memories removed from the world’s collective memories. If you forget them, it will be as if they never happened. Which 5 do you choose? Man, this is a hard, hard question. I don’t imagine that forgetting big tragedies would be a good thing, so my answers will all have to be personal an idiosyncratic. Disco. People might remember the era, the drugs, the wild sex, all of that… I wouldn’t steal that from them, of course. But I want them to forget that horrible, abominable music. 80s …

And now, from the awful, horrible, wicked mind of… hey, wait, this is my question! Ooops. Describe five of your most interesting near-death-experiences. Now, by NDE I don’t mean when you temporarily die and you see a white light, get visited by your grandmother’s second cousin’s dog’s previous owner, hear choirs of angels singing pastiches of the Carpenters and Handel, or anything like that. (Though of course such (purported) experiences would certainly fall well within the range of possible answers to this question.) Rather, I mean situations in which you or someone you were with nearly died. Actual (permanent) death …

This week in Friday-Five-Land, it’s Adrienne’s turn to extract information. She has ways of making us talk. She asks: What are the five Friday Five questions that you hope no one ever asks? Are you crazy? If we answer this question, the next thing you know, our responses will start turning up as Friday Five questions! Okay, wait, nobody ever said that we have to answer every Friday Five question posed. So I suppose revealing which questions I would refuse to answer might be alright. So let me see… [redacted] Trust me, you don’t want to know. Consider the biggest …

In this week’s Friday Five, Laura picked out another big Green Booger, and on it was written the following question: I think the greatest tragedy of the world is that dragons don’t exist. What are the five things you really wish were true – and do you believe in them? Ah, there are so many answers to this that I have in my mind. I’ve been talking about it, actually, lately, as it comes up in political discussions and other chats around the camp, and so I have a few answers in mind. People pursue their own self-interests. Look around …