No more Pop!

Ok, the holidays are over. My New Years resolution is no more pop*. The stuff is vile and unhealthy. If any of you see me drinking it you have my permission to thwap me.

x-posted to healthy_living.

* I hear that there are folks that call the stuff "soda." They are strange.

Arty quiz

Because ani_moore asked:

Your favorite classical composers: Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Holst
Your favorite piece of classical music: Mozart's Requiem
Your favorite painters: classical: JMW Turner; modern: Michael Whelan, John Howe & Alan Lee - I'm a sucker for landscapes.
Your favorite painting: Difficult to pick one, but I'll go with "Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains" by Bierstadt
Your favorite poets: not real big on poetry, but some I've liked: classical: Shelley and Byron; modern: Robert Bly, Gwendolyn Brooks, Peter McWilliams
Your favorite poem: probably "Ozymandias" by Shelley, very goth I know.
Your favorite playwrite: classical: Shakespeare; modern: Neil Simon, Larry Shue honorable mentions for individual plays: ntozake shange, Michael Cristofer, Luigi Pirandello
Your favorite museum: Field Museum of Chicago, The Hermitage in St. Petersburg.
Your favorite sculpture: St. Paul Ice Palace, 1992.