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This is a fun survey, but also an activist survey. Please repost this to your email list, blog it or use it in a group setting. Have fun with it but also let the point be made.
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"Take a picture of yourself right now.
Don't change your clothes, don't fix your hair...just take a picture.
Post that picture with NO editing (except resizing, duh).
Post these instructions with your picture."
Please note the background detail.
The Wife is often most eloquent when silent.
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besspeacetime, I really like this one.
What happened on your birthday? Did empires crumble? Did sports dynasties form? Did nothing particularly interesting take place? Go to Wikipedia and enter your date of birth (month and day only), then post four events, three births, two deaths and one holiday.
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It's everywhere:
1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me" or some such.
2. I will respond by asking you 5 questions that may stray into realms you wish to remain private.
3. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions. Please.
4. You will include this and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them 5 questions.
As with the last time, I still don't have a lot of readers, so can't say whether too many people will respond. But I will ask questions of the first 5 people who reply.
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the_ogre asked me these questions, and here are my answers to same:1) You have two kids currently. Are you and
misanthrope_momlikely to ever have more?You don't regularly read my posts, so have likely not seen my previous entry regarding my decision to get a vasectomy. I'd very much like the kids to have moved out by the time I'm 60, so yeah ... we're done. (Plus, you forgot the Daughter, who doesn't live with us.)
2) You are a second-gen (at least) fan. What is your first memory of an SF Con?
Well, that would probably be a WesterCon or WorldCon that took place in LA when I was a very young, and the memory wasn't tied so much to the con itself as to eating breakfast at Sambo's with my dad and sister. I found a cockroach in my pancakes, and we got the meal for free. Really, the clearer memories of cons were from DunDraCon, and those involve Jeff Pimper letting me help with the film projector. "Phantasm" and Mike Jittlov left a clear impression.
3) Hands down - who is your favorite SF author?
Herein lies my embarassing confession: I don't actually read a lot of sci-fi (or even fantasy). Most of my reading is in the form of blogs, biographies and graphic novels. Just based on having read multiples from a single author, though, I'd have to say Neil Gaiman.
4) Are you and your wife ever likely to move back to the Bay Area core, do you think?
As often as she's spoken about missing Santa Cruz and wishing we could move there, the Wife just told me yesterday that if we could move anywhere in the Bay Area, it would be Mountain View. Essentially halfway between her family and mine, it's also a nice community with everything one would need.
5) Do you think you'd ever leave the Bay Area permanently?
Not likely, unless overnight I was somehow able to make a living as a professional film actor without any effort. I can't imagine that would enable to me to stay out of LA unless I was superfamous. Although New Zealand does sound nice.
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This is the dreaded famous "Five Songs" tag curse meme, where you are supposed to post 5 songs you listened to several times between the ages of 5 and 14. That's quite a range, and I don't really remember much about my life before 10, but I'll give it the old college try.
Unlike Ayita, who just couldn't help herself and tortured graced us over on MySpazz with more than the requested 5, I am limiting myself due to sleep requirements.
So now I'm supposed to tag some people, but most of my Friends are probably too old to remember that far back. I also don't have a lot of regular readers here on LJ, so we'll see if anyone picks it up.
besspeacetime (because she is not furiously working on BayCon right now)
kijeren (because despite what she may think, she doesn't spin either)
misanthrope_mom (because she was forced to listen to snippets of each of my songs)
supersniffles (because she probably will karaoke all of hers, if she hasn't already)
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A MySpazz friend (who posts photos of her butt) tagged me, and although it hasn't been very long since my last tagfest, I thought I'd go ahead and play.
The object of this particular meme is to write about seven weird habits and/or things about oneself, and then tag several unsuspecting wackdoodles. Since I just tagged 10 of the aforementioned wackdoodles recently, I will instead leave it up to my reader(s?) to choose whether to follow along.
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My MySpazz friend Ayita (who could teach us all a thing or two about dressing for one's spouse's fetishes) tagged me, and I have to write ten things about me and food.
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misanthrope_mom! (Who also happens to be the Wife).Empire Magazine has revealed its list of the "50 Greatest TV Shows Ever." Below is the list (the publishers are obviously no older than 30) and here be the rules.
1. Bold the shows you've watched every episode of, or as near as makes no difference.
2. Italic the shows you've seen at least some episodes of. (I'm going by: seen a couple all the way through)
(Those of us who have DVD players, or the TNT channel should have a leg up on this. Shows we own on DVD get fancy-shmancy colored font.)
50. Quantum Leap
49. Prison Break
48. Veronica Mars
47. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
46. Sex & The City
45. Farscape
44. Cracker
43. Star Trek
42. Only Fools and Horses
41. Band of Brothers
40. Life on Mars
39. Monty Python's Flying Circus
38. Curb Your Enthusiasm
37. Star Trek: The Next Generation
36. Father Ted
35. Alias
34. Frasier
33. CSI: Las Vegas
32. Babylon 5
31. Deadwood
30. Dexter
29. ER
28. Fawlty Towers
27. Six Feet Under
26. Red Dwarf
25. Futurama
24. Twin Peaks
23. The Office UK
22. The Shield
21. Angel
20. Blackadder
19. Scrubs
18. Arrested Development
17. South Park
16. Doctor Who [docs 9 and 10]
16a. Doctor Who [docs 1-8; yes, even the cheesy Fox TV-movie]
15. Heroes
14. Firefly
13. Battlestar Galactica [new one]
12. Family Guy
11. Seinfeld
10. Spaced
09. The X-Files
08. The Wire
07. Friends
06. 24
05. Lost
04. The West Wing
03. The Sopranos
02. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
01. The Simpsons
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Considerably shorter this time.
1. Reply to this post, and I will pick four of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon squee. Whoo!