all creators draw in part on the work of those who came before

1. What was the last song you listened to that wasn’t sung in English?
   probably something by Shakira. Maybe Ojos Así?
2. One of our SS players generally leaves a critical comment on our memes. Which is fine. All's fair. Do you let meme authors know when you hate their memes?
   no, in part because I think it's rude and in part because my blog isn't a meme blog, per se. If I'm doing one, it's because there's something about it that I liked a lot - or I wouldn't have chosen it in the first place.
3. What TV show would you like to be on?
   CSI (the original series), although I'd make a pretty boring victim. I've got lots of identifying marks, I've had probably hundreds of x-rays done, and my DNA lives on (in outstandingly creepy form) in a little plastic "treasure box" in my parents' fire-safe. That's where the 12 teeth that I had pulled when I was little went, and since I never threw them out, I'm sure they're still there. All this adds up to an easily-identifiable victim and a potentially quick resolution. I would be the B-story for sure, which makes me sort of sad.
4. What was the last video game you played?
   bubbleshooter
5. Have you ever been in a musical? If yes, do tell.
   "in" in the sense that I've attended many of them, yes. "in" as a performer? Hell, no.
6. Do you follow your own style or everyone else’s?
   To quote the majority opinion in Alexander v. Haley (460 F.Supp. 40 (S.D.N.Y. 1978)), “Nobody writes books of purely original content.”
7. What’s the last store you bought from?
   I bought gas at the Clark station on the way home from work
8. In retrospect, have you ever let a person use you a lot?
   some people, in some ways, sometimes
9. What are you doing two days from now?
   with any luck, absolutely nothing at all. I'm really freakin' exhausted.
10. Did you ever believe there were monsters in your closet?
    no
11. When you graduated high school, did you let random people sign your yearbook or just close friends?
    just a few very close friends
12. Would you consider adopting a child that had a mental illness?
    no - but I'm also not in the market for a child without mental illness.
13. Does thinking about death scare you?
    not exactly
14. If you died, do you believe that you go to Heaven or Hell and where would your spirit go?
    "if" I die, I'm fairly certain that "I" will come to an end right then and there. My spirit, as such, will then be free to explore such possibilities as are made available to it at that time.
15. Who did you last write a snail mail letter to and why?
    my former spouse, in sympathy for the death of a family member. It's not a terribly rare thing for me, though.
16. Do you care what people say or think about you?
    you might be surprised...
17. Have you ever been threatened?
    yep
18. Which side of your family do you get most of your qualities from?
    physically, I'm a pretty even mix of both. Intellectually, I'm an anomaly. Emotionally, I'm probably more like the paternals. Spiritually, likewise. Strange....
19. What was the last thing with alcohol that you drank?
    last night, I had half a Sand Creek hard lemonade
20. Have you ever kept a relationship a secret?
    isn't that obvious by now?

[from you-know-who; s/he got it here; the title quotation is from Judge Alex Kozinski's dissenting opinion in White v. Samsung (1992); the passage reads in its entirety: “All creators draw in part on the work of those who came before, referring to it, building on it, poking fun at it; we call this creativity, not piracy.”]