Your name  

Marianne Vitale 

 

Your current location 

New York City 

 

Your favorite pastime  

playing pinochle with Sammy the Hay Hook 

 

Something you like  

stick insects 

 

Something you dislike  

breadfruit 

 

Your defining characteristic  

i can fly  

 

What would someone close to you say your defining characteristic is  

she can fly 

 

Your favorite artist  

nasa hubble 

 

Favorite word or phrase  

'I love you all the way to makemake and backy backy' - A.J. 

 

What aspect of your work is most important to you  

The way it looks from the side of your eye when you are running by eating a tuna melt 

 

Who do you admire the most and why  

Columbo, his conversational style 

 

Your worst habit  

putting up with other people's bullshit 

 

The first thing you think of in the morning 

the last quatrain of Sappho’s Loneliness, which I spilled my scotch on the night before 

 

What have you always wanted to do and have not done  

hitch knots 

 

Your best decision  

that partial lobotomy 

 

Your worst decision  

not going in for the full  

 

Your favorite street and why 

Labour-In-Vain Road, Stansted, UK, great short cut to my transmission shop 

 

What made you become the person you are 

drama 

 

Something that you treasure  

my collection of Japanese clown citrus squeezers  

 

What would the child you once were think of the adult you have become  

what's with the teeth? 

 

Your greatest fear 

rough landings