October 12, 2003

When I was in college, my friend A.N. asked me one day, “If you were the god of something, what would you be the god of?”

To stall for time while I came up with something suitable, I asked her what her answer to the same question would be.

“I would be Convivia, the goddess of cultural f

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18 Responses to When I was in college,

  1. cf says:

    That’s a beautiful question!

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  2. It certainly is. But what’s the answer?

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  3. JW says:

    Leave it to me — I’ll presume to attempt an answer by offering a handful of suggestions:

    1. generosity
    2. gay orgies
    3. neurosis
    4. the key of A-flat major and all of its uses
    5. glitter

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  4. Sabrina_C says:

    i would be the goddess Blah, you would pray to me for general apathy to help you cope with a devistating breakup, the fact that the vending machine is out of diet coke and maybe the fact that you have cancer and are going to die. I probably wouldn’t be good for anything, but you’d need me cause I am a basic coping mechanism.

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  5. Jonny says:

    How about the God of Hotpants?

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  6. Jalal says:

    God of Homosexuality 😉

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  7. Jalal says:

    Sorry didnt finish it.

    “Gaio” – God of Homosexuality

    😉

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  8. Jeff says:

    Neurotica, god of OCD. Or god of hotpants — and we’ll need pictures for that.

    I’d be Crampacious, god of claustrophobia. Or Navelius Gazius, god of introspection.

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  9. NJ says:

    You should be the God of the Spirit Stick…. you could bestowe stunting advice, tumbling coaching, and jump technique to those cheerleaders less worthy than you.

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  10. Wayne says:

    For some reason… I can only picture Faustus as a nymph….

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  11. Wayne says:

    Don’t get anyone wrong idea. I’d love to be a fairy myself. But I’m too damn “big” and “hairy” and plus my belly… argh… I’m a troll.. I’m a troll!!

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  12. joe says:

    How about Prepositio? He could be the god of people that end sentences with prepositions.

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  13. Joe, to quote Winston Churchill (though the exact wording of the quote varies depending on whom you ask), that is a form of arrant pedantry up with which I shall not put.

    Perhaps Pedantio?

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  14. Patrick says:

    Perhaps A.N. meant to be the goddess of cultural fêtes?

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  15. matt says:

    I like the other quote — obviously not Churchill — that we might paraphrase thus: “what would I be the god of, bitch?”

    6. gay cheerleading
    7. hymns to despair
    8. double dactyls
    9. searching for love in manhattan (bet there’d be a lot of worshippers at that shrine)

    and of course:

    10. blog comment smackdowns…

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  16. Adam807 says:

    That’s it, Matt! The god of Bitch!

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  17. joe says:

    Ah, so you think *I’m* being pedantic? Hello? Coals? Newcastle? Kettle? Call for you on line 2, someone from the Hypocrisy Council…something about winning an award….

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  18. Pete says:

    If you find the “God of Chocolate” please let me know….. i will be more than willing to set aside many a Sunday for worship…. hotpants on the otherhand…. well……

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