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Nikki Hardin
Founder and Publisher of Skirt!. A native of Kentucky, I left home at 17 to elope with my high-school boyfriend. Twelve years later, divorced with three children and unskilled at almost everything, I started college at the age of 29. Earned a B.A. in literature from American University in 1976 and a...
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Sharing a Brain

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Friday, November, 2, 2007

My local Starbucks posts questions for their customers to answer in order to make us forget we’re actually queued up to pay $4.00 for a cup of coffee. The question this week was, “If you could spend 24 hours in someone else’s brain, whose would it be?”.  I immediately thought of Bob Dylan, because he’s such an enigma to me. I want to know his first thought of  the morning. I imagine it to be something gnomic and profound, but it could just as easily be something totally banal, like: “Where’s my doobie?” ;  “Hope I get to bang the hot Victoria’s Secret model after I sold out my fans and my music in order to make the commercial with her.”; or  “Where in the world is Matt Lauer?”

Whose brain would you like to live in for 24 hours?

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KellyLove
KellyLove
First response: Miranda July...
Posted Sun, 11/04/2007 - 10:53
Miranda July, as long as I could hang on to some of that creative mojo after the 24 hours is over. However, I'd love to drag my 24 hours out and use it with different people (if I could hop in and back out again), just because I think it would put an end to the number of times I ask "What the %*#& was [insert random person's name here] thinking??" None of those people are famous though.
Nique
Nique
Sharing A Brain
Posted Tue, 11/06/2007 - 12:29
Winnie the Pooh....I just finished reading the Tao of Pooh and Pooh's life seems so uncomplicated because his mind is so matter of fact. There is not too much rethinking, overanalyzing, and attempting to make sense...but oddly enough, it usually does make sense. If I were in Pooh's brain, maybe I could figure out how to do the same thing...maybe it is not as hard as it seems when I try to do that.
Sara Conrad
Sara Conrad
Anne Sexton is a mystery to me
Posted Tue, 11/06/2007 - 18:35
I bet Bob was thinking about banging the Victoria's Secret model. I want to be in Anne Sexton's brain. Not now, because she's dead, and that might be scary and stark, but back when she was alive she was always lying to her shrink. I want to know the real story. She actually pretended to have a split personality disorder. I want to know what kind of disorder would push a person to do that. But just for awhile. Then definitely back to my brain and my problems.
Ida One
Ida One
Sharing a Brain
Posted Tue, 11/06/2007 - 18:42
I'd be you! Or the Dalai Lama. Queen Elizabeth? Perhaps Hermione Granger— seriously, how can one young wizard remember all of those spells? I'd say Stephen Hawking, but I'd likely get lost roaming around in his brain. Same goes for Gabriele Veneziano and his fellow string theorists. Indeed, this question is very quantum leap. Ah, of course. I'd peek inside Dagny Taggart's brain. Oh wait— Sir Edmund Hillary. Yes, definitely Hillary.