Saturday Slant
The Saturday Slant meme—weekly questions designed to make you think, feel, or dream. For three years the Saturday Slant produced a new thought provoking question every Saturday morning. Bloggers would then answer the question with their own unique slants on their own blogs, sharing links to one another and iAmPariah.com. Although the Saturday Slant meme is no longer producing new questions, the archive remains to inspire thoughts and feelings in anyone who still wishes to play.
- week 27
What--or who--is your forbidden fruit?
What is it that you crave but cannot have? Is it a fiendishly deliscious but fatty food? Perhaps it’s a delictable but emotionally incompatible lover? Is your forbidden fruit a sinfully satisfying activity that
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- week 26
In honor of schools reopening everywhere, what was your favorite summer vacation as a kid?
What did you do? Who did you do it with? Give us a report on My Favorite Summer Vacation!
How are other people Slanting?
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- week 25
What was the most difficult thing you've ever had to tell a friend?
Please share with your blog readers this very personal thing.
How are other people Slanting? Check the comments! Leave a link to your Slant there!
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- week 24
What is your favorite scent?
Scents can comfort us. They trigger memories more often than any other single-sense stimuli because the olfactory center of the brain is adjacent to the area in which we store long-term memories. Scents can
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- week 22
Which TV show of yesteryear do you least want "re-imagined" and remade into a modern film?
In the last decade Hollywood has realized that the thirty– and forty-somethings of today are the children of yesterday. Realizing that nostalgia is
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- week 21
If you could be another blogger for a day, who would it be and why?
Would you indulge in the wild abandon of Dirty Whore Diary? Would you want Gina Da Pooh’s crafty and cooking goodness? Would Jewdez’s
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- week 20
A freak electrical storm sucks you into your television--into a cartoon. Which cartoon character are you?
How would you meet the cartoon character’s daily challenges? In what way would you bring your own personality to the persona of the
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- week 19
Edit the Ten Commandments.
Should it be Seven Commandments or Fifteen Commandments? Just for fun, whether or not you believe God decreed the Commandments to Moses, take a look at them with a critical, modern eye. Do not necessarily
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- week 18
What is your most common fantasy?
While sitting in traffic or waiting on-queue somewhere, where does your mind drift? Is it to a moonlit tropical beach, a dream man (or woman) in your arms? Perhaps you wander to a
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- week 17
You have $1 Million you must spend, but you mustn't spend a penny on yourself.
How and on whom do you spend it? It’s the old question, what would you do with a million dollars, with a twist. If
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- week 16
What were you caught doing?
We’ve all been discovered, at one time or another, doing something embarrassing. Perhaps a macho man was caught by “the boys” speaking goo-goos and ga-gas to a baby on the street. Maybe your mother
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- week 15
Who is a hero in your life?
Heroes abound, if we recognize that heroism is not simply grand gestures of self-sacrifice for the sake of another. Courage is doing what must be done despite one’s fear. Heroism is doing
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- week 14
Where would you most like to take a child?
Posting early since I’ll be out of town this weekend. Whether you have children now or simply need to imagine yourself with a child (even someone else’s), where in all
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- week 13
What have you concluded about another person or situation that was not actually as you perceived?
Last week’s Saturday Slant was about how others may misperceive you. Let’s turn it around. Discuss one example of a time when you
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- week 10
Not too long ago a stranger said something to you that deeply effected you.
What was it? Under what circumstances was it said? How did you respond? Most importantly, in what way did it effect you? A random word
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- week 9
Have you ever wanted something so badly that you convinced yourself it was real or that you already had it?
Desire is a powerful motivator, and it is a powerful mind-altering emotion. Sometimes, for good or ill, we desire
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- week 6
Defining Childhood Event
If asked to pick just one, what event of your childhood most shaped the person you are now? We are all the sum of our laughter and tears. As children, events occur in and around our
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- week 4
What was your first kiss like?
Take a trip down memory lane to your innocence. Do you remember your first kiss? Was it electric or static, mind blowing or no big deal? What was his or her name? How
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