eurydicebound | All vanity has its price....

And mine was this. :)

Misty, water-colored meme-ories...
If you comment...

1. I'll respond with something random I like about you.
2. I'll tell you what song/movie reminds me of you.
3. I'll name something we should do together.
4. I'll say something that only makes sense to you and me (or just me).
5. I'll tell you my first/clearest memory of you.
6. I'll leave you a quote that is somehow appropriate to you.
7. I'll ask you something that I've always wondered about you.
8. If I do this for you, you must post this on your journal so you can do the same for other people.

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He goes in for the high-five and--*WHAMMY*--he tags in!

1) How even at your worst, you may be living in crazy territory but you always keep an eye on your way back to sane.
2) Once Upon a Time in Mexico.
3) Karaoke, man. That or brunch at some awesome breakfast place, unlike the last place we ate together.
4) You are not just a poet who thinks he can swing a sword.
5) At the Big Bar on 2, chatting with Adam very loudly and drunk as a lord. :)
6) And, for thou wast a spirit too delicate
To act her earthy and abhorr'd commands,
Refusing her grand hests, she did confine thee,
By help of her more potent ministers
And in her most unmitigable rage,
Into a cloven pine; within which rift
Imprison'd thou didst painfully remain
A dozen years;
7) Er... I can't think of anything offhand I don't already have the answer to. :)

We know each other too well.

(And thank you, for all but especially 4 and 6.)

The pleasure was mine, dear heart. All mine.

Ahhh, what the hell...

*comments*

I'm a sucker for, "Who are you again?" ;D

1) Your stories.
2) Cops. (it's a TV show, yes, but it's my answer, damn it.)
3) Go grab a meal the next time I'm in San Francisco, since I've continually forgetten to tell you I'm in town on my previous trips to San Francisco.
4) And who are you again? :)
5) I have a vague recollection of meeting you at GenCon one year, but there was a large group and I couldn't think of anything to say as I was tired and feeling socially challenged.
6) "Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock." -- Will Rogers
7) So what do you want to be when you grow up?

3) You know...right about your last trip to San Fran is when we started having all these rainy days. Could you please take the rain and clouds back to Seattle?

6) Ahhh, I love that quote.

7) Ok, Ok...I know I look young, but I am all growed up!

Me!

1) The fact that you're a good (if vaguely bitter) person.
2) Brother by Alice in Chains (with Nancy Wilson singing backup).
3) Hang out someday.
4) Jennifer Clarke-Wilkes says hi.
5) Having convention center pizza with you and Malcolm.
6) "The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter." --Mark Twain
7) What's your favorite game?

My FAVOURITE? Board game is Assault on Hoth, because I've got fond memories of it as a college student. RPG is Torg, because it is just so much fun.

I'll give it a shot. :)

1) Your love for your kitties.
2) Howl's Moving Castle. No, I don't really know why either.
3) See you play hockey.
4) See, I vaguely want to quote the SR dragon-porn that we had, but I don't know if you actually saw it. Just imagine it and/or ask Elissa for more details if you haven't. If you have... well, that says it all, really.
5) Seeing you at GenCon... I think the first time was when I'd hurt my toe and I was limping all over the place.
6) "A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way." --Mark Twain
7) So, are you planning to shoot for published fiction outside the realm of SR, or are you happy there for now?

Re: #4...Ooh, no, I didn't see it. Must ask Elissa. :)
Re: #7...Maybe. I've got an idea for a novel, but I haven't had any extra time to work on it in quite some time.

Thanks!

I think you've actually done one of these for me before, but g'head. I like hearing random nice things. :)

That was the same exact reasoning I had for doing this in the first place. :)

1) Your wit and sense. Oh, and that you're cute.
2) Arsenic and Old Lace.
3) Go hang out at one of your gatherings and/or game together (preferably more than once a year if I could get it).
4) So I pick it up and bodyslam it onto the spike...
5) Playing in your Werewolf game at GenCon last year.
6) The Player: We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three, concurrent or consecutive, but we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. We're all blood, you see.
--Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, by Tom Stoppard
7) So have you any thoughts about what you're going to do after you graduate? Stay in your current area, move, etc. ?

Me me me!

1) Your giving spirit.
2) Er.... I can't think of one off-hand. Or rather, I think of lots, pick them up, turn them over, squint at them in the light, and then decide they're not quite right.
3) Hang out, admire your boys, and have you teach me to knit properly.
4) I'm so glad you and the more recent immigrants to Madison get on well, especially the haberdasher, Mellow and the Chickadee. It means a lot to me. :)
5) Seeing your bright red hair at that restaurant, figuring out who you were obliquely, and then chickening out on introducing myself.
6) "That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment." -- Dorothy Parker
7) What's the thing you like most so far about having had twins?

2. See, that's exactly what it was like trying to pick one for you. I bet the darn thing just hasn't been made yet. grin.

5. You know, I really should go back to the red, shouldn't I? I went back to my natural color around the time I got pregnant (couldn't stand the smell), but now I'm kinda going, "Ech. It's so mousy. Gotta do something cooler."

7. I like that they can play together. I like seeing the two little blond heads next to each other reading books. I looooove dressing them in coordinating outfits (which, I have to admit, I never imagined liking so much). And more than all of that, I love when I can get them both to cuddle up with me while watching a movie or something.

But I think, honestly, the part I like most is the part I liked least initially - that the option to stop at just one kid had been taken out of my hands. Because at this point, I think if we'd only had one, I probably would have chickened out on having a second kid. So at this point, I'm really glad that the whole "Gosh, are we really up for having TWO?" thing is taken entirely out of our hands.

Oooh. Or the other thing I'm really glad about is that having twins meant I could "justify" staying home instead of going back to work after my maternity leave was over. If we'd just had one, I don't think I could really have counted my desire to stay home and play Mommy for a couple years would have been able to trump the financial gain of my working (to me, much less anyone else). Again, having two made it less of a "decision" and more of just, "this is the way it's going to be", and I'm really glad things worked out that way, overall. (Though, you know, it'd be great if Caz could find another job soon - that would make all of this easier. grin.)

Hit me!

1. What an amazingly caring person you are.
2. Hmm. I can't put my finger on exactly which song it is, but I'm almost certain Jack Johnson performs it. Must be the Hawaii connection.
3. Hang out more often.
4. Every time I visit another area store, I love yours more.
5. You being this whirlwind of authority and activity on the main floor of your store.
6. "“It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.” --Frederick Douglass
7. How did you and Eric get together?

Eric was shopping for Nancy Berman for Christmas. :) We were friends for several months after he and Nancy broke-up. After SWEARING for MONTHS that we were JUST FRIENDS, we were at Kendra's house and cupide struck. It was wonderful.

:)

In for a penny, in for a pound, or so they say :)

1. Your accent :).
2. Down Under, by Men At Work. Cheesy, yes, but such is the way of things.
3. Go get a drink if I ever make it to Australia.
4. You have a great eye, and you frame things very well.
5. Having drinks at that hotel bar in Indianapolis.
6. “It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter, because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the ordinary.” --David Bailey, English fashion photographer, 1938
7. Have you ever considered making the leap and just making visual arts your career?

1. Which one? Oh, my normal Aussie one :)
2. Great song. It may be a bit cheesy, but it's still one of my faves :)
3. You're on :)
4. My thanks :)
5. I can dig that.
6. Amen to that. It's actually one thing I do love about being behind my camera :)
7. No, not really. Perhaps I should. I'd still rather be known as an author :) Photography's just easier :)

I could use some ego-lifting. Shoot!

:)

-E

1. Your rapier wit and smashing good looks. :)
2. Hmm. It's probably a sort of cross between Gross Pointe Blank and Con Air. Gross Pointe Blank has the requisite humor but isn't quite dark enough, while Con Air is dark enough and has such glorious violent cheese (should one ignore the utterly boneheaded plot holes and Nick Cage's accent).
3. Write some glorious work that will live through the ages. And or just actually work on a project together. Either or.
4. Recent posting has led me yet again to realize how optimal your current choice of partner is. :)
5. Being overjoyed at the first email you sent me in which you said my work made something not suck. It was a huge ego boost to have on the first project of one's career.
6. “You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.” -- Warren Ellis
7. What's your favorite comic EVAR!!!! *grin*

So yeah. I happen to be vain, too. :)

1. Your laidback nature, which has turned curmudgeonly in your old age. Oh, and you have nice eyes.
2. Donal McGillavry (Scottish Rising war song. If you haven't heard it, I'll see if I can find it somewhere).
3. Just see each other again and hang out, damnit.
4. He was a buddha baby, wasn't he?
5. Sitting on my couch and flirting with two women, thinking both "wow, that's... interesting" and later "he's how old? You're fucking kidding me."
6. "To go for a drink is one thing. To be driven to it is another." -- Michael Collins in a letter during the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations.
7. Are you planning to have more wee ones, or are you content with the wee revolutionary you have?

Oh, wow. Sorry I missed this.

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Favorite comic EVAR?

I'm almost embarrassed to admit this.

Marvel Star Wars issue #56 (http://www.rebelscum.com/photo.asp?image=/comics/mvsw056feb.jpg&text=Star%20Wars%2056).

Lando returns to Bespin after Empire and discovers the Ugnaughts have staged a labor revolt, placing bombs around the city; apparently the new Imperial administration is not particularly good to the blue collar space aliens.

A damaged Lobot, shot in the head and left for dead by the Ugnaughts or Imperials, I forget which, hunts Lando and an Imperial bomb squad unit through the city.

Great cliffhanger ending, with Lando being kicked over the side and plummeting towards Bespin, below.

Bought it when it first came out in the '80s, long before I was anywhere near a comic store; I had to buy them at grocery stores and drugstores off of spinner racks.

The following issue? Didn't get a copy. Had no idea how the cliffhanger resolved. I knew it DID, since Lando returned in Jedi.

Finally got the next issue when I was in my late twenties.

Oh, and it totally sucked. Hated the resolution to the "Lando plummeting" problem.

In terms of pure set-up, though? Marvel Star Wars 56 was a wonderful issue.

Fire it up, dear lady!

1. Your perseverence in the face of adversity.
2. Erm... I'm not sure.
3. Meet in person one of these days so I can meet your wife and kidlet.
4. See, they didn't entirely screw everything up. :)
5. Seeing your posts on Dumpshock.
6. "Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word. And there's an opening convey of generalities. A Texan outside of Texas is a foreigner." --John Steinbeck
American novelist and writer, Nobel Prize for Literature for 1962, 1902-1968.
7. So how do you like this whole husband/father thing? It seems to agree with you.

1. Some windmills need to be tilted at. As a friend reminded me not too long ago, some of them simply demand it.
3. Sounds like a grand plan.
4. The jury's still out on this one, I think. :)
6. *snerk*
7. It's just fantabulous. Never been happier, even considering the stress the past year's caused us.

What the hell... Sign me up!

1. Your dedication to the task at hand.
2. Um... I'm bad at this part. I can't think of anything off hand.
3. Meet at some point.
4. Given your job, nationality, and current home, I always have this feeling Warren Ellis is writing a novel about you somewhere.
5. Working on projects with you, SOLA in particular.
6. "A man is known by the company that keeps him on after retirement age” --Anonymous
7. Were you born in Uruguay, or did your family move there later?

1) Thank you. *bows*

3) Definitely. Sooner or later, probably later. :P

6) "Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age." --Pope John XXIII

7) I was born here. My father first came here as an exchange student, then worked for the Korean embasssy and finally set up a business. He met and amrried my (Uruguayan) mother here. I still miss him.

May I also commend you on some damn fine quotes for people?

Why, thank you. I owe a significant portion of it to having a general idea what sort of quote I wanted and then hitting thinkexist.com and just the internet in general for specifics. A fw of them I knew off hand, such as Will Rogers and Shakespeare. For most of them I knew who I wanted to quote, if not what. Yours was a what, though. Turned out pretty well, I think.