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icepixie1) If you could elect any fictional character from one of your fandoms President of the United States in November, who would it be? (NB: Laura Roslin is too easy an answer! :D)
Oh, darn! I would totally have picked her, too. Hmmm...perhaps Captain Picard? He did a pretty good job running a starship.
2) What is your favourite scene in a Shakespearean drama?
The St. Crispin's Day scene in Henry V. Very inspiring. (Also, to fudge a bit and use a comedy, I adore Act 2, Scene 1 in The Taming of the Shrew. Banter FTW!)
3) If you could adapt one literary classic for the screen, which book would it be, and why?
The closest I can come up with is E.B. White's The Trumpet of the Swan. I always found the story, and the image of Louis the swan playing the trumpet to attract a mate, utterly charming.
I had a hard time with this one because I see books and adaptations of them as entirely separate creatures, so much so that they don't even seem related to me. I can only see books being adapted once they've already been adapted and I can, well, see it. That probably doesn't make any sense.
4) What will you miss most about your hometown?
My dogs, family, and house. Not so much anything about the town. (Of course, I'm going somewhere with very similar weather. Were I going back north, I would definitely miss the warm winters.)
5) Is there a hobby you would really like to have, but haven't managed to dabble in yet?
I would like to learn how to ice dance. Not necessarily the lifts and stuff, because I think that would freak me out totally (not to mention the guy would have to be a linebacker to lift me...), but the compulsory dances would be good. I would of course buck the trend of having a costume which appears to be made entirely of flesh-colored fabric and shredded toilet paper.
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It's not Halloween, but go download this video anyway. It's called "Zombie Jamboree," and includes footage from The X-Files, Pushing Daisies, Stargate, Buffy, various Star Treks, Hercules, Michael Jackson's "Thriller," Plan 9 From Outer Space, and more that I can't remember. (Oh...Fiddler on the Roof makes an appearance. Somehow.) HILARIOUS.
Oh, darn! I would totally have picked her, too. Hmmm...perhaps Captain Picard? He did a pretty good job running a starship.
2) What is your favourite scene in a Shakespearean drama?
The St. Crispin's Day scene in Henry V. Very inspiring. (Also, to fudge a bit and use a comedy, I adore Act 2, Scene 1 in The Taming of the Shrew. Banter FTW!)
3) If you could adapt one literary classic for the screen, which book would it be, and why?
The closest I can come up with is E.B. White's The Trumpet of the Swan. I always found the story, and the image of Louis the swan playing the trumpet to attract a mate, utterly charming.
I had a hard time with this one because I see books and adaptations of them as entirely separate creatures, so much so that they don't even seem related to me. I can only see books being adapted once they've already been adapted and I can, well, see it. That probably doesn't make any sense.
4) What will you miss most about your hometown?
My dogs, family, and house. Not so much anything about the town. (Of course, I'm going somewhere with very similar weather. Were I going back north, I would definitely miss the warm winters.)
5) Is there a hobby you would really like to have, but haven't managed to dabble in yet?
I would like to learn how to ice dance. Not necessarily the lifts and stuff, because I think that would freak me out totally (not to mention the guy would have to be a linebacker to lift me...), but the compulsory dances would be good. I would of course buck the trend of having a costume which appears to be made entirely of flesh-colored fabric and shredded toilet paper.
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It's not Halloween, but go download this video anyway. It's called "Zombie Jamboree," and includes footage from The X-Files, Pushing Daisies, Stargate, Buffy, various Star Treks, Hercules, Michael Jackson's "Thriller," Plan 9 From Outer Space, and more that I can't remember. (Oh...Fiddler on the Roof makes an appearance. Somehow.) HILARIOUS.
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Date: 2008-07-11 03:59 am (UTC)And the name of my classmate's elder brother is Michael Osthoff. I think he only participated in that championship once and didn't really stand a chance against the competitors, ending up on place 20 or so, but still, it was pretty exciting that there was someone we actually knew.
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Date: 2008-07-11 08:44 pm (UTC)Hey, just getting to Europeans is pretty cool...and yeah, it's awesome to know someone in the competition!