On this date fifty-one years ago, Allen Ginsberg’s "Howl" was ruled not obscene after obscenity charges were brought up against Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet and owner of the City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco, for importing copies of the poem from London. The judge in the case, Clayton Horn, ruled that the poem was of "redeeming social importance," and if you’ve ever read "Howl" then you know why I say amen to that. Time for the friday5.org Friday Five.

1. Under what conditions are you most likely to cause injury to yourself?
Playing DDR/ITG doubles, because I always fear I’m going to trip over my own feet moving from pad to pad and fall and break something. (I broke my arm, back in kindergarten, in the same garage I’m playing dance games in now.)

2. What named mountain is nearest where you are right now?
I have no clue. Toledo’s kind of famous for being flatter than month-old soda.

3. When did you last eat something with coconut in it?
03.21, what would have been Dad’s birthday, when I had German chocolate cake, which Mom always made for him every birthday. (I just got a couple of slices from Kroger, though.) I don’t like coconut, but I felt it appropriate to have that cake then.

4. Who’s getting on your nerves?
Politicians and the media for the most part. I can’t wait for this election cycle to get over.

5. Somewhere, somebody is asking him- or herself whatever happened to you. Who is it?
Given how easy I am to find online, I’d hope that people would just look me up. That being said, I’d hope it would be one of my old crushes, as opposed to, say, the people who only knew me from my pre-.org Internet career and all the dumb things I did back then.