I was tagged by a friend so…. In real life the standard ways still apply: food, money, sex. (Don’t look surprised. I’m a man. What did you expect? :)) But the delivery system for those items is harder (but not impossible) over the internet, so I offer the following suggestions in lieu of those things (in no particular order):
1. Tell me about an Erle Stanley Gardner book you’ve read recently. Most know he wrote the Perry Mason stories, but he also wrote as A. A. Fair. Tell me why you think Bertha Cool and Donald Lam were the Maddie and David of their generation. This is a hard one I know.
2. Talk to me about movies in current release that I can take my grandkids to and I’m your friend forever. I appreciate being told about suitable movies on Dvd, but that’s not what I’m looking for. I want to share the very important movie going experience with the grandkids. FYI, they both are under 10, a boy and a girl and would rather not take them both to a movie that only one will enjoy.
3. Understand that I use the internet, but I don’t really know the internet. So I’m not hip on all the lingo and acronyms, so I really do need for you to spell it out for me and sometimes make it Fred Flintstone simple. (The fact that I used the word “hip” ought to tell you a lot about me.)
4. An email to me telling me something funny or witty that you saw or experienced and wanted to share. Note that this not an invitation to spam me or put me on some mass mailing list (the ones that are you and your 1000 closest friends). Those things will get you dropped from my list faster than the speed of light.
5. Smart and witty conversational post/ observations that make me think about the characters I write about in a new light. Example: Maybe Bruce Wayne’s inability to forgive his mother for dying is the reason he has difficulties entering into permanent relationship with women. Old news, but it’s an example.
Tagging: no one in particular, but you may feel free to self-tag. 🙂