Site of the day: Plush prop to make your life more like The Godfather. Thanks, Danny.

Here comes the weekend.

Hey, I found an alternate Friday Five site. I don’t think it’s as good as the original one, but it’s good for when my friend Morgan doesn’t have any questions for me to answer.

Today’s questions:

1) What was your favorite toy as a kid? Alexander, my skunk puppet. He was very realistic. One time I took him to Girl Scout Camp, and he fell out of the tent, and the counselor saw him and screamed. Good old Alexander.

2) What was the first video game you were ever completely addicted to? Super Mario Brothers for the NES! Man, that was so great. My brother and I played that all the time. I could double-beat it–you know, where you save the princess, then it sends you through the whole thing again except with harder challenges. I also enjoyed Super Mario Brothers 3 and Donkey Kong Country (I think Donkey Kong Country may have been for Super NES).

3) What did you get for your most memorable birthday? Christmas? One year, when I was going through that horse phase that all little girls go through, my dad got me a beautiful, huge, framed poster of a horse running along a beach. I think he built the frame. I was wild about it. The horse was a buckskin, my favorite kind of horse.

4) What was your favorite or most elaborate make-believe character when you were a kid? I had an invisible frog named Clyde. My dad’s friend Tony gave him to me. He (Clyde, that is, not Tony) alternated days between being the size of a regular frog and the size of a human kid.

5) What childhood toy do you wish you’d never gotten rid of? Man, that Barbie Dream House was amazing. It had a jacuzzi! You could put dish soap in it and make it all foamy. It was like three stories and all pink. Incredible. I wonder if it had a fireman’s pole. Now that would have been cool.