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gurdymonkey) wrote2007-03-20 04:24 pm
gurdymonkey) wrote2007-03-20 04:24 pm
Interview meme
1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
2. I respond by asking you five questions of a creepily personal nature.
3. You update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. Include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, ask them five questions.
In response to
mamapduck
and her five questions to me:
1. You win a trip to Africa or South America. Which do you pick and what do you do?
Africa. Visit the ancient sites in Egypt and go on safari with a REALLY good camera.
2. What one artistic talent have you always wanted?
I'd like to be better trained in the ones I have. Thought I think sculpture or pottery could be fun.
3. The standard: stranded on a desert island, 5 books, 1 person, 1 non-book item. What do you pick?
Nonstandard answer: Any five volumes of something large and old enough to be bound in leather with sturdy cover boards in reasonably good condition, e.g., an out of date Encyclopedia Brittanica. The Samurai From The Outlands. A Leatherman multi-tool. The madness behind my method - The Samurai is not only good company, but he's got mad stuff-making skills to make McGyver look unimaginative. The encyclopedias are raw materials - or seating. But not for long, we're so off that island!
You were expecting maybe the collected works of J.K. Rowling, Russell Crowe and a can of Reddi Whip? Sheesh, I don't even like REAL whipped cream.
4. What literary character would you most like to meet?
If you mean fictional character, Steven Maturin from the series "Master and Commander" was based on. If you mean literary figure as in author, 10th century Japanese diarist Sei Shonagon.
5. Would you rather have a very long summer or a very long winter?
Summer, hands down.
2. I respond by asking you five questions of a creepily personal nature.
3. You update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. Include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, ask them five questions.
In response to
mamapduckand her five questions to me:
1. You win a trip to Africa or South America. Which do you pick and what do you do?
Africa. Visit the ancient sites in Egypt and go on safari with a REALLY good camera.
2. What one artistic talent have you always wanted?
I'd like to be better trained in the ones I have. Thought I think sculpture or pottery could be fun.
3. The standard: stranded on a desert island, 5 books, 1 person, 1 non-book item. What do you pick?
Nonstandard answer: Any five volumes of something large and old enough to be bound in leather with sturdy cover boards in reasonably good condition, e.g., an out of date Encyclopedia Brittanica. The Samurai From The Outlands. A Leatherman multi-tool. The madness behind my method - The Samurai is not only good company, but he's got mad stuff-making skills to make McGyver look unimaginative. The encyclopedias are raw materials - or seating. But not for long, we're so off that island!
You were expecting maybe the collected works of J.K. Rowling, Russell Crowe and a can of Reddi Whip? Sheesh, I don't even like REAL whipped cream.
4. What literary character would you most like to meet?
If you mean fictional character, Steven Maturin from the series "Master and Commander" was based on. If you mean literary figure as in author, 10th century Japanese diarist Sei Shonagon.
5. Would you rather have a very long summer or a very long winter?
Summer, hands down.
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Toxically nuts day at work, must give them some thought once my brain unpretzels.
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And no rush...
Finally, a quiet afternoon in a tomblike office
2. What historical personage living or dead would you most like to meet and what would you say to him? (Note my politically incorrect yet grammatically correct pronoun usage.)
3. If you had to choose, which is your favorite period to re-enact.
4. What historical fashion style that I do not already do would you kit me out in if you had free rein, an unlimited budget, and no requirement to take my preferences into account.
5. Have you and Bob ever inadvertently convinced some innocent, unwitting party that you were about to come to blows over something?
Re: Finally, a quiet afternoon in a tomblike office
Hands down: satay sauce. Yeah. I'd eat it off the floor if I had to. =)
Well done! It'd have to be the wearer/maker of the Shinrone gown. I'd ask her why the darts in the bodice and the quills in the skirt and how it came to be in the bog without her still in it.
It's fairly obvious that I am not capable of choosing... But at this moment, I'd have to say Golden Age of Piracy/Turn of the Eighteenth Century (1690s-1710s). In this time period, I think even the poor people look elegant, and yet the clothing is comfortable and easy to wear during a variety of activities.
Ooooo! Good one! Early 1880s -- second bustle period. The time period of the "centaur butt". If you let me deck you out to the nines, corsets and hair and crinolines and everything, I think you would look fabulous!
Oh yeah... When Young Apprentice #2 started coming around, she used to get quite nervouse when we started "fighting"... until Apprentice #1 told her that we were just being entertaining. =)
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1. Name the book (OR movie) that most influenced your formative years and why.
2. Looking back on it now with the benefit of your advanced years, what is the most embarrassing thing you've ever done at an SCA event?
3. Brad Pitt or Antonio Banderas? Why?
4. mamapduck's Desert Island question: three books, one person, one other item.
5. Person from the Tousando you most want to meet and why. (It cannot be me.)