By Paul Goldfinger, Editor @Blogfinger (interviewer and interviewee:)
Q: Why did you name Eileen Goldfinger as food editor? Isn’t that nepotism?
A: No. I prefer to call it “affirmative action”
Q: Where will you be eating dinner tonight?
A: Probably at home, having Cheerios with skim milk.
Q: You really like music. How did that interest develop?
A: My mother sang show tunes all day long and she insisted that I play the sax. In the band I met some nice girls with rhythm, so I stuck with it. I liked to watch the horn players use their spit valves.
Q: Who is your favorite photographer and why?
A: Edward Weston. Because his black and white images of peppers, sea shells, nudes and toilet bowls were beautiful and unique…..also he slept with all his models.
Q: Do you miss practicing medicine?
A: Only the fun parts, like when I would talk into my stethoscope and say, “Testing, testing, testes.” Some of my former colleagues still enjoy that one liner. But, you know, it’s all in the timing.
Q: What was your most amazing medical case?
A: A young woman came to the ER when I first entered practice. She had a heart rate of 180/min. I turned her upside down—-then right side up. She was cured, and I was famous.
Q. What cars do you like?
A: I love stick shift sports cars. Over the years I have had a Chevy Corvair (yellow) convertible, Fiat Spider, Triumph Spitfire, Porsche 911, and a BMW Z4. I don’t go fast, but my favorite maneuvers are cornering and acceleration. (That’s how I am in bed also—when I am sleeping.)
Q: Were you in the military?
A. Yes, I was an officer in the Navy Medical Corps and I fought the battle of Virginia Beach at the Naval Hospital in Portsmouth. I had three haircuts in one month. I also had a rubber stamp that said “bull****” The best part was the saluting. I also enjoyed dress inspections when I wore a sword; good for circumcisions.
Q: What is the future for Blogfinger?
A: We will spend a lot of time searching for an honest man. We also hope to interview a real celebrity some day, like Kevin Chambers. I would like a logo that is R rated. We will commission an OG artist to design it.
Q: What do you like best about Ocean Grove?
A: I enjoy the way people are interested in foxes, snow plows, history, good coffee, and flying the American flag on their houses. The demographics are fascinating: always changing— like the sands. I also have an unpaid job as official thong counter down at the beach. 10 years ago the count was zero. In 2023 it was 54. You heard it first @Blogfinger.
Q: If you could speak at a high school graduation, what would you say?
A: For the boys: “Have no fear; girls want sex also” For the girls: “Read Erica Jong’s books and don’t believe the feminists.”
Q: What should we call you?
A. Call me Paul. My middle initial is @. Only my childhood friends call me Pee Gee. My last name must be sung to the Shirley Bassey version of “Goldfinger.” If you hit my doorbell on Mt. Hermon Way, it plays the song. You can hear it at the top page here that says “About.”
Q: What do you think of this interview?
A: It sucks. Can I say “sucks” on this blog?
Q: What’s your favorite song?
A: I have many, but I guess, anything that takes me back to the gym at Rutherford High School when, festooned with crepe paper, and with the lights semi-low, my friends and I strolled over to the girls’ side and found a few who would slow dance with us.
For example, here are THE VELOURS. Back when it was hard to find a place to “make out,” the Velours advocated a direct approach.
Bro’ Mel: Yes I did turn her upside down with the help of a nurse. She was petite and, most importantly, she was wearing jeans, so nobody was embarrassed. This maneuver stimulates the vagus nerve, just as carotid massage does, but without the pain. I had to give up my miraculous trick when a new medicine was found that could quickly cure such a tachycardia with a mere IV injection.
As for doing another interview, I will do that, if I can convince my alter ego not to sue me for stepping over the line.
PG, Nice interview with yourself! This should be a recurring BF feature called “Blogfinger interviews himself”. I’ll bet it would be of great interest to your readers; but please be like Mark Twain: Let the humor enhance – but not hide – the wisdom you have to share.
PS. Is that really true about your turning the lady upside down?
Should have re interviewed yourself to bring your one-liners up to date.
Always full of wit and fun, Pee Gee!