It’s the “stranded on a desert island” question! You can only take one thing from each category. What is it and why are you taking it?

1. A food that can be planted and regrown.

Cannabis sativa. The hemp that I would be able to extract from it could come in handy. I could live off the hemp seeds, make milk from them, etc. I could make hemp clothes, hemp rope, even a hemp sail for the boat I would build to get off the island when I finally got bored… or IF I got bored. There’s also the benefit that it smells nice, especially when put on a fire… but I might not do that often considering that I’d be stranded on a desert island which probably wouldn’t have much food.

2. A person you haven’t seen in a long time.

Hmmm… so, basically someone that I haven’t hung out with in a while, yet would feel the desire to drag along into exile? I’m sure he or she would kill me in my sleep for doing so. But, if I must provide an answer, then I’ll drag Cvon kicking and screaming with me.

3. A book you (were) read as a child.

For what? So I could use it to start a fire? Do magazines count? When I was younger I found my Dad’s stash of Playboys… but I wasn’t much interested in “reading” them. 

4. A celebrity.

A celebrity too? Do I still have to bring Cvon then? Okay… okay… I kid. If I had to bring a celebrity, it’d probably be Tommy Chong. He makes me laugh, and he’d be a cool dude to hang out with. However, I’d have to make sure he stayed away from my cannabis sativa.

5. The entire episode run of a television show (it’s a very nice desert island).

I’d bring along the entire series of “Gilligan’s Island“. They may not have been able to figure out how to make a boat, but they had damn near everything else. I wonder if there would be a bonus DVD complete with instructions on how to build half the crap they had…?