Benny
My blogs
Blogs I follow
- Blam's Blog
- Dispatches from the Island
- Gentlemen of Leisure
- Geronimo Jack's Beard
- Nik at Nite
- Nikki Stafford's Lost Rewatch!
- Pateman's Ponderings
- Sonshine Thoughts
- Things I Yell at You
| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | Sports Economist ; Policy/Evaluation Analyst |
| Location | Buckingham/Ottawa, Canada |
| Interests | Sports, Hockey, Football, Biking, fitness, sports economics, Mythicism, Physics, Television, Music |
| Favorite Movies | MOVIES, 2001: A Space Odyssey, American History X, American Psycho, Annie Hall, Assassination of Richard Nixon, Citizen Kane, The Departed, Eraserhead, The Machinist, The Man with the Movie Camera (Cinematic Orchestra), Mulholland Drive, Naked Lunch, Rachel Getting Married, Reservoir Dogs, Rushmore, Singles, Spider, Stir of Echoes, and obviously more on the lower scale, TV SHOWS, Lost, Fringe, Dollhouse, The Simpsons, 24, Harper's Island, Californication, Arrested Development, Battlestar Galactica (2004), ER, Harvey Birdman, Huff, Mr. Show, OZ, The Sopranos, Studio 60, Twin Peaks, The Wire, SNL (1970s + Hartman), No Heroics |
| Favorite Music | Cinematic Orchestra, The Donkeys, Fast Like Fiction, Galactic, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Green River, Journey, Miles Davis, Nine Inch Nails, Pearl Jam, Pink Floyd, Radio Citizen, Saul Williams, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Southland, Tool, Tragically Hip, Waldeck, and so much more. |
| Favorite Books | Naked Lunch, The Invention of Morel, Live From New York, Freakonomics, I Love You Beth Cooper, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 5 Against 1, Money Players, Future Greats and Heartbreaks, A Brief History of Time, The Winner's Curse (Thaler) Econometric Analysis (Greene), Microeconomic Theory (Mas-Colell), any John Swartzwelder |
Why do you think honeydew is the money melon?
It was once called 'honey melon' but, for a brief and not well known period, honey became used as money. Because people thought honey could be extracted from the melon, people wanted to use it to make their own money. So due to increased demand for the melon, it's price soared. With the honey dew being so expensive, it started being called 'money melon'.