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This is a bad question for me. I *was* elected to public office but I don't feel like I managed to change *anything.* One of the most frustrating and frankly demeaning experiences of my life 8(
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I was on my hometown's city council for a term. It changed my life but also burned me out VERY badly -- being on that council automatically meant I was on several other boards and commissions and my life became one giant public service project, yet I only got $100 a month for my trouble. I was presiding over million dollar budgets but mining the couch cushions for money for ramen noodles!
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Peter Greenaway's films The Pillow Book and Drowning By Numbers, Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon and all three volumes of his Baroque Cycle; The Lord of the Rings (both the original books and the Peter Jackson films; the former more so than the latter);Ken Russell's film adaptation of The Who's Tommy... and probably Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum, still my favorite book of all time.
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I really don't get this "should" thing. If someone's appealing, they're appealing, and if you're worried they don't meet some outside standard for appealing then you've got bigger problems than whether or not you should be bumping uglies with someone.
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I am somewhat, yes. A strange thing has happened, though. Some people I know IRL got to know me a little better via Twitter, got to see what I'm up to all day and what I'm thinking about, and piped up that they want to play, too, and so my real life is much enriched.
I adore meeting people IRL whom I feel I know well from online interactions; so far people I've known from Twitter are exactly who I think they are, and so, e.g., a visit over a glass of wine or dinner feels like talking with an old friend rather than with someone I'm meeting for the first time. It's uniquely satisfying.
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This is kind of a bogus question. Of course I would choose the second option -- because if everything else is good between/among two or more people, mediocre sex can be improved, and dramatically.
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I like Europa, if for no other reason than the way its oceans have inspired a lot of great speculative fiction - especially that of Alastair Reynolds and Arthur C. Clarke.
"All these worlds are yours except Europa. Attempt no landings there."
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Hell yes. Most recently Him of the Green from @jennybeanses' GOBLIN MARKET. But there have been many, many others. Daniel Waterhouse from THE BAROQUE CYCLE. Casaubon from FOUCAULT'S PENDULUM. Brendan Doyle from the ANUBIS GATES. Hilo from Battlestar Galactica...
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We are all of us actors on stages of various sizes, with varying audiences, are we not? And even when we believe we are *not* acting, still we do perform the role we believe is our "natural and authentic" self, for that audience inside that never tires of watching us and critiquing (some, many perhaps, will say that's the toughest crowd of all).
But perhaps this was not meant as a philosophical question and matter one of the more generally understood theater arts. The answer is yes, I have done, in small and informal performances -- town melodramas for festivals and the like, occasionally in skits which I have written. These being melodrama the acting is very broad, the dialogue shouted to be heard over the boistrousness of the crowd of tourists loosely gathered around the performance area. It is amusing.
I've also done some voice acting as well, and find I prefer it, because I can make ridiculous faces and gestures that no one notes but myself. I am thus entertained even through the most banal of dialogue. I am a postmodern child of the 1980s and thus enjoy, perhaps too much, finding the irony in everything. -
The answer to this question is, perhaps, a more complicated matter than can be entertained in such a way here on formspring that may do it any justice. But that is a cop-out, isn't it? So let me say, just for the sake of argument and in a sincere attempt to honor the spirit of this question, that the answer may be, if we look deep within, unflinchingly, fnord.
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Space is big. Really big. Peanuts and chemists. What?
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No, I haven't. I'm shy like that.
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Why do people always ask me this? I'm not bad, I just sound that way.
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I like the classic red and blues, but I'm a sucker for primary colors anyway!
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I'm no economist (though I did have to cover Wyoming's Enhanced Oil Recovery Task Force for an energy newspaper for about a year; lots of grumpy old energy cowboys trying to figure out how to squeeze every last drop out of existing fields and wells), but I think it will be considerably less time than those economists are projecting. They seem mostly to look at oil as a fuel/energy commodity only. What is plastic made out of again? Oh yeah! Bzzzt
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I loved me some Hellboy even before Ron Perlman brought him so perfectly to life. As for villains... well, he's not exactly a "supervillain" in the traditional sense but The Smiler from TRANSMETROPOLITAN has always wigged me out rather a lot. Sorry, don't read a lot of superhero comics!
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I would love to see what he could do with Fitzcarraldo. Especially if he found a way to cast a zombie Klaus Kinski.
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I liked the very first, which was that of George Washington. Just because you can't see it doesn't mean it wasn't there, and didn't have funky, funky intentions. In fact, it's the ones you don't notice that sneak up and goose you when you least expect it.
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Rather than songs, an original score by @miltonline with plenty of hyperbow electric cello by @petergregson.
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Kate Sherrod’s Bio
Suppertime sonneteer, sometime podcaster, recovering politician, fledgling zombie killer
