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[icepixie]

1) 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.

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[rivrea.livejournal.com]

Oh, darn! I would totally have picked her, too.

Everyone would pick Laura Roslin, I suppose. That's why I said that this answer was too easy. :) But Picard isn't such a bad choice, either; as an avid tea-drinker in the White House, he would at least be likeble for me!

The St. Crispin's Day scene in Henry V. Very inspiring.

Isn't it, er, a bit bloody, though? I mean it is obviously a great opportunity for Henry to showcase his leadership qualities and display some dazzling rhetoric, but I also find it rather chilling. It never fails to remind of that quote by a famous Shakespearean scholar (might have been Stephen Greenblatt, but I'm not quite sure which BNF of the Bard fandom it was) who described Henry V as the most charismatic monster Shakespeare had ever created.

I must admit that I had never heard of "The Trumpet and the Swan" before. It sounds a little like a pupular classic in children's literature, what with a swan turning musician. Or am I totally wrong?

One of my former classmates' brothers actually took part in the European Ice-Dancing Championships once (he didn't win a medal, though), so I had to watch a lot of the TV recordings on the sports channel with her. I can see why it would appeal to someone as fascinated by ballroom dancing as you!