Touched by Love.

Studio Lolo has tagged me with Peace and Love. There are no personal questions, no odd bits of information I'm required to share. Only to meditate on love and peace...I can do that!

I'd like to continue to spread the love, so I'm giving a big hug, and sloppy kiss on the nose to Anonymous, Val Gal, Saint Nick, Thomas Paine, and Hipparchia.

The Pharyngula Mutating Genre

When my two Dads (Archaeopteryx and Kiefus ) fell in love, they decided to produce children like me so that their Mum's meme could live on, even if it end end up a little mutated.

There are a set of questions below that are all of the form:

"The best [subgenre] [medium] in [genre] is…".

Copy the questions, and before answering them, you may modify them in a limited way, carrying out no more than two of these operations:

You can leave them exactly as is.

You can delete any one question.

You can mutate either the genre, medium, or subgenre of any one question. For instance, you could change "The best time travel novel in SF/Fantasy is…" to "The best time travel novel in Westerns is…", or "The best time travel movie in SF/Fantasy is&hellip", or "The best romance novel in SF/Fantasy is&hellip".

You can add a completely new question of your choice to the end of the list, as long as it is still in the form "The best [subgenre] [medium] in [genre] is…".

You must have at least one question in your set, or you've gone extinct, and you must be able to answer it yourself, or you're not viable.

Then answer your possibly mutant set of questions. Please do include a link back to the blog you got them from, to simplify tracing the ancestry, and include these instructions.

Finally, pass it along to any number of your fellow bloggers. Remember, though, your success as a Darwinian replicator is going to be measured by the propagation of your variants, which is going to be a function of both the interest your well-honed questions generate and the number of successful attempts at reproducing them.


My Ancestry:

My great-great-great-great-great-great-grandparent is Pharyngula.
My great-great-great-great-great-grandparent is Metamagician and the Hellfire Club.
My great-great-great-great-grandparent is Flying Trilobite.
My great-great-great-grandparent is A Blog Around the Clock.
My great-great-grandparent is archy.
My great-grandparent is Why Now?
My grandparent is Hipparchia.
My dad is Archaeopteryx. My other dad is Kiefus.


My version of the questions:

• The best “bad” movie in scientific dystopias is: Battlefield Earth.

• The worst earworm in pop is: You're Having my Baby, by Paul Anka.

• The best alt-country album in country music is: Kentucky Thunder.


To keep the meme alive, I'm passing it along to:

Saint Nick at Nick's Bytes, because he's soooooo good to me.

The Secret Agent at OE, because I think he's up for a mission like this.

Anonymous at Birds Anonymous, cuz, she's upside down, and she likes birds.

and Gypsy at Tireless Watcher, because I like the way she thinks.

Tagged for Weirdness

How weird am I, really?

Val Gal has asked for full disclosure.

1. I think probably the weirdest thing about me is that I talk to myself. Not just occasionally, but whenever I’m alone. Every thought in my head comes out of my mouth. Yes, I’ve heard of inner dialogue, but I’m sure it’s just a theory.

2. Since October of 89, I’ve been seeing (what I call) shadow people. They’re like 3D shadows, kinda fuzzy on the edges, and almost transparent. They don’t talk to me; they don’t even acknowledge me. I doubt they’re even aware of me. I assume they’re ghosts. I’ve seen fewer than a dozen, probably. And they disappear almost as soon as I realize they’re there. As you can imagine, this scared the holy shit outta me at first. But now, I kinda welcome it. (My daughter has since seen a few. Maybe it’s hereditary.)

3. I’m probably a communist. At least I believe that human beings were not meant to live in a capitalist system. We were much healthier as a species when entire communities shared most things. One-Each societies, as far as I’m concerned, only benefit the very rich. I might be willing to bet that the early predictions of the Beast and his 666-mark were predictions of capitalism. Few of us can survive in this culture unless we participate. I’ve got a brother doing a pretty good job of it, but even he has been forced to get an ID card and work for wages rather than limit his economic interactions to bartering.

4. I’m thinking of declaring myself a celibate. I’ve already become asexual, or maybe I’m just cybersexual. My husband has been dead for over 4 years, and I’ve only been interested in men, in theory - men in the ether. I’ve have a few crushes on men I’ve met on the Net. Ya know, political forums, here in the blogosphere, that sort of thing. But in real life, they leave me cold. I’m just not interested.

5. I’m scared to look in the bathroom mirror unless the light’s on. That goes for other mirrors in the house. If only nightlights are on, I won’t look into any mirrors. I saw a Twilight Zone when I was a little girl, where a woman’s reflection had a life of its own, and I’ve never been able to shake the memory.

Damn. I really can’t think of any more weirdness. I was supposed to come up with six. (But seeing shadow people probably counts for two or three, ey?)

agged-Tay

I've been volutarily tagged by Isay...

FOUR JOBS YOU'VE HAD IN YOUR LIFE:
1) Garden Shop salesgirl
2) Soldier
3) Short-order Cook
4) RN First Assistant (OR)

FOUR MOVIES YOU WOULD WATCH OVER AND OVER:
1) Murphy's Romance
2) Fools Rush In
3) Thunderheart
4) Excalibur

FOUR PLACES YOU HAVE LIVED:
1) Misawa AFB, Japan
2) Camp LeJeune, North Carolina
3) Fort Gordon, Georgia
4) Fort Drum, New York

FOUR TV SHOWS YOU LOVE TO WATCH:
1) Monarch of the Glen
2) Lost
3) Bones (David Boreanaz)
4) As Time Goes By

FOUR PLACES YOU'VE SPENT YOUR VACATION:
1) Laundromat
2) Grocer's
3) Delivery Room
4) Under the beds with a damp rag...

FOUR OF YOUR FAVORITE FOODS:
1) Chili Relleno
2) Lasagna
3) Fried Prawn
4) Chocolate-Dipped 6-foot hairy-chested men.

FOUR PLACES YOU WOULD RATHER BE RIGHT NOW:
1) Vancouver, BC
2) Sitka, AK
3) Winifred, MT
4) Right here in Missoula, twenty years ago.

going to tag Sandy, Jimbo, Daysspring, and any one of my illustrating friends who might wanna volunteer to be tagged. No requirement to pass it on...

Ahh. onclejohann has gallantly volunteered. Thank you, good man.

Tagged

I’ve been scratched by an anonymous cat! So I think I’m supposed to come up with 20 things about myself:

1. I’ve come to hate the heat. I mean, you can only get so naked.
2. When I’m alone I do all my thinking out loud. I’m saying these things aloud as I type them.
3. I sing to myself when I’m doing the dishes.
4. I prefer cats to people.
5. Even as a child, I loved chicken livers, sautéed in butter and Tabasco sauce.
6. I do NOT think Brad Pitt is sexy.
7. I love anything in red.
8. I miss eating venison.
9. I wanted to be a bio-geneticist when I grew up, but became a Nurse, instead.
10. I no longer own a vehicle.
11. I make my breads from scratch, but still buy my macaroni and cheese in a box.
12. I see more beauty in a grey, rainy day than I do in one washed out by the sun.
13. I’m addicted to romance novels, and hafta hide the books when my friends come over.
14. I’ve pretended not to be home when people have knocked at the door.
15. I sleep with my husband’s dogtags under my pillow.
16. Instead of curtains, I've strung crystals in my window, and placed coloured glass bottles on the sill.
17. The shelves, walls, and drawers around my computer are cluttered with turquoise and lavender post-it notes….at least 60 or 70 of them. I’m not even sure what’s written on some of them.
18. My favorite channel is C-span.
19. I would give this all up for Paul Newman, but he refuses to leave his wife.
20. I still have to look up my phone number when somebody asks.

And now to tag a few others that haven't yet been tagged. I think just about everyone's been tagged, so yikes, this list might be outdated:

Pajara Pinta; Steve S; JacqueLynn; Alina Chau; VirginiaJoe; and Cecilia....